Trading partner enablement service for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain Collaboration
SAP experts facilitate supplier onboarding with SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration Download the Document1PUBLIC
Business needs
• Collaborate with your trading partners on a single, networked platform to 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
• Streamline onboarding and enablement of multiple suppliers
Solution
• Streamlining the onboarding and integration of suppliers by providing comprehensive strategies, support, and tools tailored to your
specific business needs
• Educational resources and leading practices guidance to help ensure suppliers can effectively utilize the platform
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
Trading partner enablement service for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
Collaboration
SAP experts facilitate supplier onboarding with SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
© 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.
Business needs
• Collaborate with your trading partners on a single, networked platform to 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
• Streamline onboarding and enablement of multiple suppliers
Solution
• Streamlining the onboarding and integration of suppliers by providing comprehensive strategies, support, and tools tailored to your
specific business needs
• Educational resources and leading practices guidance to help ensure suppliers can effectively utilize the platform
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
Trading partner enablement service for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
Collaboration
SAP experts facilitate supplier onboarding with SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
© 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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Trading partner enablement service for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
Collaboration
SAP experts facilitate supplier onboarding with SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
© 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.
Project artifacts
• SAP standard templates for the following:
– Kickoff presentation
– Customer stakeholder presentation
– Requirements gathering workbook
– Supplier stakeholder presentation
– Standard functional training guides
– Customer-specific integrated supplier workbook
Out-of-scope items
• Customization, translation, or localization of standard SAP
templates and materials (provided in English only)
• Determination or guarantee of the transaction method
between the customer and suppliers
• One-on-one functional training sessions
• Supplier adoption change management
Estimated duration: License-tied duration
(Timeline shown aligns with deployment for SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration)
Subscription start
Week 1–2
• Suppler enablement kickoff
• Suppler integration kickoff
Week 3–10
• Supplier segmentation
workshop
• Communication strategy for
supplier workshop
• Review of supplier
enablement reporting
Week 11–28
• Develop the supplier
information portal
• Create and finalize customer-
specific integrated supplier
workbook and materials
• Upload data file for pilot
suppliers and send trading
relationship requests
(TRRs)
Week 29–32
• Report pilot supplier status
• Provide training to customer
resources
• Develop post-production
rollout plan and review and
approve with customer
• Conduct supplier
enablement cutover planning
and handover meeting
Ongoing
• Perform match of SAP
Business Network on supplier
data
• Upload updated match data
results to SAP Business
Network and send TRRs
• Begin supplier outreach and
initial profile setup
• Execute cutover activities on
the SAP Business Network
Customer roles and responsibilities
• Supplier enablement lead: Owns overall enablement program
• Supplier integration functional lead: Coordinates supplier integration
activities and serves as a single point of contact for integrated
suppliers
Trading partner enablement service for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
Collaboration
SAP experts facilitate supplier onboarding with SAP Business Network Supply Chain
Collaboration
© 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.
Project artifacts
• SAP standard templates for the following:
– Kickoff presentation
– Customer stakeholder presentation
– Requirements gathering workbook
– Supplier stakeholder presentation
– Standard functional training guides
– Customer-specific integrated supplier workbook
Out-of-scope items
• Customization, translation, or localization of standard SAP
templates and materials (provided in English only)
• Determination or guarantee of the transaction method
between the customer and suppliers
• One-on-one functional training sessions
• Supplier adoption change management
Estimated duration: License-tied duration
(Timeline shown aligns with deployment for SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration)
Subscription start
Week 1–2
• Suppler enablement kickoff
• Suppler integration kickoff
Week 3–10
• Supplier segmentation
workshop
• Communication strategy for
supplier workshop
• Review of supplier
enablement reporting
Week 11–28
• Develop the supplier
information portal
• Create and finalize customer-
specific integrated supplier
workbook and materials
• Upload data file for pilot
suppliers and send trading
relationship requests
(TRRs)
Week 29–32
• Report pilot supplier status
• Provide training to customer
resources
• Develop post-production
rollout plan and review and
approve with customer
• Conduct supplier
enablement cutover planning
and handover meeting
Ongoing
• Perform match of SAP
Business Network on supplier
data
• Upload updated match data
results to SAP Business
Network and send TRRs
• Begin supplier outreach and
initial profile setup
• Execute cutover activities on
the SAP Business Network
Customer roles and responsibilities
• Supplier enablement lead: Owns overall enablement program
• Supplier integration functional lead: Coordinates supplier integration
activities and serves as a single point of contact for integrated
suppliers