2502 Resource: Feature Names and Descriptions Page for Business Network Buyers

SAP Business Network 2502 Release

	What's New Guide	2502 Early Release Series	Release Summary
	Describes new or changed features included in the 2502 release.	An interactive forum to engage with product experts providing simple, direct answers to your questions.	Provides a downloadable overview of planned features with links to additional feature content.

Procurement Collaboration
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Email Notifications for Buyer Announcements [NEXTGEN-5941] This feature sends email notifications to targeted suppliers whenever a buyer publishes an announcement on their SAP Business Network trading partner portal. This enhancement ensures that important communications from buyers are promptly delivered to suppliers, even if they do not frequently check their trading partner portal. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by March 28.		Demo
Extending Support to Gold Suppliers for Guided Integration [NEXTGEN-15608] - Feature For Suppliers Gold Enterprise suppliers and Platinum suppliers can use Guided Integration for Trading Partners to discover which existing buyers to integrate with for additional business processes quickly and independently and become enabled for additional types of commerce collaboration with existing buyers. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by March 21.
New Business Roles in the Registration Form [NS-29111] - Feature For Suppliers This feature introduces new business roles in the walk up registration landing page.
Additional Entities on Company Profile [SA-54373] - Feature For Suppliers This feature introduces the new and simplified user interface to manage additional entities of suppliers in SAP Business Network. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the release date of the 2502 Business Network. However, it will be available to all customers by February 22nd.		Demo
Customer Configured
E-Invoicing of Pre-Approved Invoices for Malaysia [NG-6276] The Malaysian tax authority has introduced new regulations to improve the e-invoicing process for e-commerce transactions. To harmonize with the local regulations, SAP Business Network implements the changes in the application in two phases. In this release, suppliers can recreate a pre-approved invoice in SAP Business Network. A pre-approved invoice is an invoice created outside of SAP Business Network and approved by the Malaysian tax authority. Therefore, additional Malaysian-specific fields are introduced during invoice creation process. Hence, suppliers in Malaysia must provide additional tax details during invoice creation and the same information will be displayed on the invoice summary once the invoice is created.	Feature Overview
Enhancements to Outbound Invoicing Process for Malaysia [NG-6842] This feature enhances the existing Malaysian e-invoicing process for outbound invoices (invoices created by a supplier using SAP Business Network). The invoices generated on SAP Business Network will be validated with the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM) portal. As a result, buyers will be able to receive both the Malaysian UBL invoice and the PDF version of the invoice.	Feature Overview
Supplier search and discovery [PAY-13904] A sourcing user can find more suppliers to expand their existing supplier data using SAP Business Network Discovery Postings Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the release date of the 2502 Business Network. However, it will be available to all customers by February 28.
Discontinuing Legacy Discovery pages [PAY-15266] Classic discovery pages are discontinued. We encourage you to use the discovery available in the trading partner portal. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by March 28.
SAP Business Network Promote Subscription [PAY-21630] - Feature For Suppliers SAP Business Network, promote subscription is a new commercial offering designed to significantly boost a supplier’s discoverability on the world’s largest B2B network. Available as an annual subscription, it provides a bundle of value-added features to help suppliers differentiate themselves on SAP Business Network, attract new buyers, and grow their business. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by March 28.
Improved Matching Criteria for Supplier Registration [PAY-21695] - Feature For Suppliers This feature provides enhanced matching criteria for suppliers during the registration process. Suppliers can identify existing accounts on SAP Business Network and choose to contact system admin or continue logging on using their existing credentials.
Enhanced Data Protection Capabilities through Attribute-Based Access Control [REGAN-18218] SAP Business Network now extends capabilities for Segregation of Duties (SoD) and access control for buyers based on enhanced authorization profiles to achieve the Zero Trust security model.		Demo
Profile Data Federation [SA-52210] This feature enables your company profile data to be replicated across SAP Business Network's global data centers, making your profile visible to trading partners in different regions.
Enhanced Profile Transparency [SA-52508] This feature enhances supplier profile transparency by providing detailed information about their registration history with SAP Business Network. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by March 28.
Five-Digit Postal Code Support for Taiwan [SA-54134] - Feature For Suppliers SAP Business Network now supports five-digit postal codes for Taiwan, applicable during supplier onboarding and within supplier company profiles.

Supply Chain Collaboration
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Key Figures for Unreceived Orders and Optional Matching for Certain Criteria [CSC-37983] This feature lets buyers display to their suppliers what firmed or replenishment order quantities aren't yet received. This feature also enables buyers and suppliers to ignore the supplier part number or system ID for part matching. And, this feature can allow suppliers to populate certain key figures without having a planning record.		Demo
Allow to Upload Certificates When Using the Advance Ship Notice Upload File [CSC-43876] Enhances the adoption for the customer’s internal processes when working with mass upload for ship notices and Quality certificates. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2502 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases.	Feature Overview	Demo
Increase Customer-Defined Attributes to 60 [CSC-45124] This feature increases the number of customer-defined attributes to 60 for buyers and suppliers to consume both in the user interface as well as in the Manufacturing Visibility CSV templates.	Feature Overview	Demo
Support for Supplier Search in Number Range Setup for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain [CSC-46344] When creating advanced ship notices and Handling Unit Number ranges, buyers can search for all suppliers or a specific supplier. This reduces the buyers' time to add one or many suppliers to their advanced ship notices.		Demo
Customer Configured
Allow Selection of Serial Numbers During Component Consumption [CSC-32328] This feature allows suppliers to select serial numbers from the ones available in the component inventory for the component during component consumption reporting. This feature prevents suppliers from selecting a serial number for the component which is not available in the component inventory.	Feature Overview	Demo
Batch-managed material validation in ASN creation [CSC-43917] This feature enables buyers to make the Supplier Batch ID mandatory during the ASN creation and enhances the validation for Production and Expiry dates for Batch-managed materials. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the release date of the 2502 Business Network. However, it will be available to all customers by February 28.	Feature Overview	Demo

	Integrations
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	Support Multi-Consignment for Transport Request - X12 204N 4010 Out [SBNI-1029] This feature enhances the EDI 204 mapping process by supporting multiple consignments within a single TransportRequest CXML. Previously, the mapping was limited to a single consignment, which restricted its usability. The updated mapping, referred to as "204N," ensures that all consignments included in a transport request are accurately captured and transmitted. This update introduces a new naming convention and extrinsic definition for seamless integration, allowing suppliers and partners to efficiently process multi-consignment transport requests.
	Support CII format for X-Rechnung Invoice [SBNI-1258] - Feature For Suppliers This feature enables compliance with Germany’s e-invoice mandate by supporting the CII format. It automates the conversion of CII invoices to cXML via SAP Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) for processing in SAP Business Network (SBN), with secure transmission and attachment handling. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the release date of the 2502 Business Network. However, it will be available to all customers by February 28.
	Customer Configured
	VAT and Tax Enhancement for Invoice [SBNI-496] - Feature For Suppliers This feature enhances the invoices sent by suppliers via the 4A1 soap interface. The S/4 tax code is customized to the CXML tax category and the Header and Item Supplier tax code is mapped to the CXML tax code.

This information reflects the status of SAP Business Network planning as of January 2025 and the features discussed are subject to change at any time without notice. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions and nothing in this web page should be construed to represent any commitment by SAP to include any specific new features in any version of the SAP solutions. Please contact your Customer Engagement Executive for additional details.