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SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration
Streamline logistics and warehouse operations through efficient collaboration with a global network of carriers and logistics service providers.
Drive efficiency and resilience with streamlined carrier collaboration
Reduce logistics costs and automate the contract-to-settlement process with visibility and insight across a global network of carriers and service providers.
The SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration solution connects you and your logistics partners on a safe network for optimised collaboration and insights, integrated tightly with core business processes for efficiency and resilience.
Cloud deployment
Global, multimodal carrier and service provider network
Real-time transparency into competitive market prices and carrier performance
Digitalised transacting, collaboration, and shipment tracking
How to achieve a three-year ROI of 404%
IDC study reveals the business value realised by SAP Business Network customers.
Key benefits
Reduce logistics costs
Save time and money through real-time transparency of competitive market prices and multimodal shipment tracking.
Optimise utilisation
Gain flexible capacity and greater agility with extended reach into a global network of multimodal carriers and logistics service providers.
Improve performance
Connect core warehouse, yard, and manufacturing processes for integration that can improve on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance and customer satisfaction.
Key features
Freight order collaboration
- Shop carriers competitively to send digital requests for quotation and freight orders through the network
- Collaborate with carriers though the network from multimodal order contracting through settlement
- Onboard once and collaborate with many on a global cloud platform
Dock appointment scheduling
- Optimise operations by enabling self-services for creating, rescheduling, and cancelling dock appointments
- Share gate check-in and checkout processes and event information among shippers and external warehouse and yard operators
- Reduce idling, product spoilage, carbon emissions, and noise pollution
Shipment execution and document exchange
- Exchange business documents such as a bill of lading
- Gain milestone transparency into shipment execution progress such as proof of pickup and proof of delivery
- Enable full lifecycle collaboration through standard and open API integration with transportation management and partner solutions
Intelligent insights
- Enhance SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration with the SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on to turn transactional network insights into data intelligence
- Leverage SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on for detection of bottlenecks and analytics across shipments, carriers, and geographies
Pricing
Enjoy this customer success webcast
Learn how Celas Group successfully digitalised logistics collaboration.
Resources
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Portfolio recognition and awards
SAP Business Network is recognised for its multi-facted industry leadership based on verified user reviews, ratings, and in-depth customer insights.
Technical information
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