Welcome to the first edition of 2024 of the ‘What’s new in SAP Business Network for Supply Chain’ series of blog posts where I focus on new capabilities being delivered with 2402 Release.
While you can get a full overview of the 2402 release items for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain under the following link, I wanted to focus on the one I consider especially a great addition to the solution.
Supplier Email Notifications for Buyer Planning Collaboration Updates
This feature makes it possible for suppliers to receive automated email notifications when their customers make planning collaboration updates. Suppliers can configure these email notifications in their SAP Business Network accounts. Prior to this feature, suppliers could only find out about the planning collaboration updates that their buyer customers made by checking in SAP Business Network.
Because this feature also delivers notifications in processes related to inventory collaboration, as a pre-requisite, buyers must be enabled for SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration and/or SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration, inventory collaboration.
This email notification contains the number of planning records the buyer created or updated. The supplier can specify a minimum of one and a maximum of three email addresses to use for receiving the notifications at a set frequency.
The main benefit is that these notifications help suppliers be more responsive to their buyers.
Configuration

Sample Email Output (Daily Digest)

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