Setup assistance service for SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain Download the Document1PUBLIC
Setup assistance service for SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain
Business needs
• Get assistance setting up SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration to collaborate with your trading partners on a single,
networked solution and gain transparency into your multi-tier supply chain, better ensuring timely supply and delivery
• Respond promptly to supply chain disruptions while driving sustainability and product quality initiatives
Solution
• Provides functional and technical consulting to assist with implementation of the SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
solution
• Assists with process design, configuration, integration setup, and end-to-end testing
• Supports onboarding of pilot suppliers
• Enables knowledge transfer, user roles and authorization setup, and basic UI customizations
• Helps with rollout planning, change management, and training for the initial pilot deployment phase
Business outcomes
• Improve trading partner collaboration: Extend your processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to
remove data silos, exchange documents digitally, and execute transactions
• Drive supply chain resiliency: Respond rapidly to disruption to prevent revenue loss and unforeseen costs due to stock-outs,
materials shortages, work stoppages, and demand fluctuations
• Gain transparency and visibility: Leverage plan-driven process automation, historical insights, and digitalized collaboration to help
ensure delivery to the right customer at the right time
References
Richemont
Baker Hughes
Brückner Maschinenbau
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Setup assistance service for SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain
Business needs
• Get assistance setting up SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration to collaborate with your trading partners on a single,
networked solution and gain transparency into your multi-tier supply chain, better ensuring timely supply and delivery
• Respond promptly to supply chain disruptions while driving sustainability and product quality initiatives
Solution
• Provides functional and technical consulting to assist with implementation of the SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
solution
• Assists with process design, configuration, integration setup, and end-to-end testing
• Supports onboarding of pilot suppliers
• Enables knowledge transfer, user roles and authorization setup, and basic UI customizations
• Helps with rollout planning, change management, and training for the initial pilot deployment phase
Business outcomes
• Improve trading partner collaboration: Extend your processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to
remove data silos, exchange documents digitally, and execute transactions
• Drive supply chain resiliency: Respond rapidly to disruption to prevent revenue loss and unforeseen costs due to stock-outs,
materials shortages, work stoppages, and demand fluctuations
• Gain transparency and visibility: Leverage plan-driven process automation, historical insights, and digitalized collaboration to help
ensure delivery to the right customer at the right time
References
Richemont
Baker Hughes
Brückner Maschinenbau
© 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to this material.
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Engagement start
Week 1–2
• Initiate project
• Kick off workshop
• Perform integration architecture
and technical assessment
• Validate and align on desired
business outcomes and KPIs
Week 3–10
• Configure the buyer’s side of
SAP Integration Suite, managed
gateway for spend management
and SAP Business Network
• Customize UIs in SAP Business
Network (excluded for the add-
on)
• Customize PDF documents and
shipping label (excluded for the
add-on)
Week 11–28
• Resolve issues found in
testing (related to scope)
• Conduct meeting with the
support team for SAP
Business Network Supply
Chain Collaboration
Week 29–32
• Receive post-go-live support
after three weeks
• Conduct project closure
activities
Customer roles and responsibilities
• Project manager: Serves as a single point of contact
• Business process SMEs: Represents their business units
• IT and system administration lead: Owns ERP platform and technical
issue resolution
• Change management and training lead: Oversees solution adoption,
communication, and end-user training
Project artifacts
• Integration architecture and technical assessment
• Standard leading practices from SAP for supply chain business
processes supported by the solution
• Standard approach from SAP covering kickoff, requirement analysis,
configuration, and testing
• Quality gate for each project phase
Out-of-scope items
• Connection to more than one ERP and one network ID
• Programs or content to migrate data
• Custom field configurations beyond the initial fifteen
• Customizing PDF document and shipping label beyond the initial two
• Pilot suppliers beyond the number on next page
• Custom versions of SAP standard template materials
Estimated duration: 32 weeks
(Each add-on carries a four-week entitlement that can be used concurrent with initial deployment to extend by four weeks or after deployment as a separate
four-week engagement. However, four weeks may not be enough time to fully deploy the add-on if done after the initial deployment is complete.)
Setup assistance service for SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain
Engagement start
Week 1–2
• Initiate project
• Kick off workshop
• Perform integration architecture
and technical assessment
• Validate and align on desired
business outcomes and KPIs
Week 3–10
• Configure the buyer’s side of
SAP Integration Suite, managed
gateway for spend management
and SAP Business Network
• Customize UIs in SAP Business
Network (excluded for the add-
on)
• Customize PDF documents and
shipping label (excluded for the
add-on)
Week 11–28
• Resolve issues found in
testing (related to scope)
• Conduct meeting with the
support team for SAP
Business Network Supply
Chain Collaboration
Week 29–32
• Receive post-go-live support
after three weeks
• Conduct project closure
activities
Customer roles and responsibilities
• Project manager: Serves as a single point of contact
• Business process SMEs: Represents their business units
• IT and system administration lead: Owns ERP platform and technical
issue resolution
• Change management and training lead: Oversees solution adoption,
communication, and end-user training
Project artifacts
• Integration architecture and technical assessment
• Standard leading practices from SAP for supply chain business
processes supported by the solution
• Standard approach from SAP covering kickoff, requirement analysis,
configuration, and testing
• Quality gate for each project phase
Out-of-scope items
• Connection to more than one ERP and one network ID
• Programs or content to migrate data
• Custom field configurations beyond the initial fifteen
• Customizing PDF document and shipping label beyond the initial two
• Pilot suppliers beyond the number on next page
• Custom versions of SAP standard template materials
Estimated duration: 32 weeks
(Each add-on carries a four-week entitlement that can be used concurrent with initial deployment to extend by four weeks or after deployment as a separate
four-week engagement. However, four weeks may not be enough time to fully deploy the add-on if done after the initial deployment is complete.)
Setup assistance service for SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain
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Service scope items
Scope options Scope items / Functionality delivered
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Assistance with deploying following business processes: standard purchase order collaboration for direct, service purchase order
collaboration, subcontracting collaboration, scheduling agreement collaboration, vendor consignment collaboration, multi-tier
document collaboration, returns purchase order collaboration, customized PDF documents/Labels (up to 2).
Implementation of up to 15 UI customizations for SAP Business Network.
Implementation of up to 2 customized PDF document shipping labels.
Assistance with enablement of pilot suppliers up to 7 portal suppliers and 3 integrated suppliers.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, inventory add-on
Assistance with deploying following business processes: demand/inventory/min-max, planned shipments, scheduling agreement,
advance shipping notice, good receipt invoice, payment advice, replenishment purchase order.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, quality add-on
Assistance with deploying following business processes: quality notification request, quality notification response, quality
inspection lot, quality inspection result.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, clinical trials add-on
Assistance with deploying integration between SAP Business Network for Supply Chain and SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply
Management for clinical trials subcontracting purchase orders and stock transfer orders business processes.
Setup of SAP Business Technology Platform or CMO (contract manufacturing organization) Apps enhancement are excluded from
this service.
For each of the add-on’s, the listed
parameters apply:
Can be implemented either (1) during the initial deployment of SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration, extending the
timeline by 4 weeks, or (2) the 4-week duration can be used separately to assist with add-on deployment activities after the initial
deployment. However, 4 weeks may not be enough time to fully deploy the add-on if done after the initial deployment is complete.
No additional custom field configurations beyond the 15 included in initial deployment.
No additional customized PDF document shipping labels beyond the 2 included initial deployment.
List of scope items that can be added to address additional business processes
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Service scope items
Scope options Scope items / Functionality delivered
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
Assistance with deploying following business processes: standard purchase order collaboration for direct, service purchase order
collaboration, subcontracting collaboration, scheduling agreement collaboration, vendor consignment collaboration, multi-tier
document collaboration, returns purchase order collaboration, customized PDF documents/Labels (up to 2).
Implementation of up to 15 UI customizations for SAP Business Network.
Implementation of up to 2 customized PDF document shipping labels.
Assistance with enablement of pilot suppliers up to 7 portal suppliers and 3 integrated suppliers.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, inventory add-on
Assistance with deploying following business processes: demand/inventory/min-max, planned shipments, scheduling agreement,
advance shipping notice, good receipt invoice, payment advice, replenishment purchase order.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, quality add-on
Assistance with deploying following business processes: quality notification request, quality notification response, quality
inspection lot, quality inspection result.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration, clinical trials add-on
Assistance with deploying integration between SAP Business Network for Supply Chain and SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply
Management for clinical trials subcontracting purchase orders and stock transfer orders business processes.
Setup of SAP Business Technology Platform or CMO (contract manufacturing organization) Apps enhancement are excluded from
this service.
For each of the add-on’s, the listed
parameters apply:
Can be implemented either (1) during the initial deployment of SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration, extending the
timeline by 4 weeks, or (2) the 4-week duration can be used separately to assist with add-on deployment activities after the initial
deployment. However, 4 weeks may not be enough time to fully deploy the add-on if done after the initial deployment is complete.
No additional custom field configurations beyond the 15 included in initial deployment.
No additional customized PDF document shipping labels beyond the 2 included initial deployment.
List of scope items that can be added to address additional business processes
© 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to this material.