SAP Business Network Material Traceability - Build Trust Across Your Value Chain with Product Genealogy and Transparency
Maintain Customer Confidence as Your Business Grows. With the SAP® Business Network Material Traceability solution, you can capture the complete material provenance to protect your brand with efficient and precise product genealogy – streamlining recalls, enabling consistent compliance, and improving sustainability performance. Download the Document2 | 8
Maintain Customer Confidence as Your Business Grows
Every industry is expected to produce and deliver goods that people can trust to be safe and effective.
But even the slightest defect can damage that trust and your company’s reputation. With the SAP®
Business Network Material Traceability solution, you can capture the complete material provenance to
protect your brand with efficient and precise product genealogy – streamlining recalls, enabling
consistent compliance, and improving sustainability performance.
Many different natural resources, ingredients, and
subcomponents are used to make your products.
But whether you have a diverse supply chain or just a few
key suppliers, the moment you learn a shipped product
falls below your quality and safety standards, you must
react quickly to protect your customers and your brand.
The information you need for effective product traceability
can be buried under a mountain of paperwork from an
ever-expanding multitier supply chain. Even if you had time
to sift through all your records for a complex, multi-level
bill of material, could you trace every affected product
quickly and accurately enough to protect your customers,
satisfy regulators, and uphold your brand?
With SAP Business Network Material Traceability, you can
gain confidence by creating a trusted chain of upstream
and downstream product genealogy across your multitier
supply network. The solution delivers accurate insights
into the provenance and processing of products and
supports privacy-controlled collaboration – enabling
traceability and recall management across your company
and throughout the supply chain from raw material to
finished product.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
Maintain Customer Confidence as Your Business Grows
Every industry is expected to produce and deliver goods that people can trust to be safe and effective.
But even the slightest defect can damage that trust and your company’s reputation. With the SAP®
Business Network Material Traceability solution, you can capture the complete material provenance to
protect your brand with efficient and precise product genealogy – streamlining recalls, enabling
consistent compliance, and improving sustainability performance.
Many different natural resources, ingredients, and
subcomponents are used to make your products.
But whether you have a diverse supply chain or just a few
key suppliers, the moment you learn a shipped product
falls below your quality and safety standards, you must
react quickly to protect your customers and your brand.
The information you need for effective product traceability
can be buried under a mountain of paperwork from an
ever-expanding multitier supply chain. Even if you had time
to sift through all your records for a complex, multi-level
bill of material, could you trace every affected product
quickly and accurately enough to protect your customers,
satisfy regulators, and uphold your brand?
With SAP Business Network Material Traceability, you can
gain confidence by creating a trusted chain of upstream
and downstream product genealogy across your multitier
supply network. The solution delivers accurate insights
into the provenance and processing of products and
supports privacy-controlled collaboration – enabling
traceability and recall management across your company
and throughout the supply chain from raw material to
finished product.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
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Customers view their purchase decisions as opportunities
to effect positive changes on a personal, local, and global
scale. They desire products that deliver expected
outcomes while impacting the environment as little as
possible and improving people’s health, safety, and living
standards – from raw material through production to final
delivery.
Top companies are committed to these same values, but
proving that commitment remains challenging. News of
recalls, compliance failures, and environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) shortcomings cause customers to
worry that the products they choose will not meet their
expectations.
SAP Business Network Material Traceability enables your
business to be transparent, responsive, and successful at
meeting the full range of customer expectations, including
compliance performance, risk-mitigation efforts, and
environmental and social governance. You can achieve
confidence in multi-ingredient and multicomponent
traceability by batch or serial number across complex bills
of materials to cover a full range of manufacturing, growing,
or processing operations.
Traceability through batch and serialized products can be
combined to demonstrate overall product stewardship.
Product provenance and properties can also be traced
across a multitier supply chain to efficiently prove
consistent compliance and build brand loyalty through
network transparency.
Protect Your Brand by Instilling Consumer Confidence
10%–20% lower risk in quality
noncompliance when data sharing
happens across a multitier supply chain.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points.
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
Customers view their purchase decisions as opportunities
to effect positive changes on a personal, local, and global
scale. They desire products that deliver expected
outcomes while impacting the environment as little as
possible and improving people’s health, safety, and living
standards – from raw material through production to final
delivery.
Top companies are committed to these same values, but
proving that commitment remains challenging. News of
recalls, compliance failures, and environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) shortcomings cause customers to
worry that the products they choose will not meet their
expectations.
SAP Business Network Material Traceability enables your
business to be transparent, responsive, and successful at
meeting the full range of customer expectations, including
compliance performance, risk-mitigation efforts, and
environmental and social governance. You can achieve
confidence in multi-ingredient and multicomponent
traceability by batch or serial number across complex bills
of materials to cover a full range of manufacturing, growing,
or processing operations.
Traceability through batch and serialized products can be
combined to demonstrate overall product stewardship.
Product provenance and properties can also be traced
across a multitier supply chain to efficiently prove
consistent compliance and build brand loyalty through
network transparency.
Protect Your Brand by Instilling Consumer Confidence
10%–20% lower risk in quality
noncompliance when data sharing
happens across a multitier supply chain.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points.
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
Increased regulatory scrutiny, geopolitical issues, ongoing
public health concerns, and competitive pressures
continue to pose significant supply chain challenges –
increasing the risk of encountering complex recall events
involving a multitier supply chain. And for most businesses,
even one recall can bring penalties, added cost, revenue
loss, diminished consumer confidence, and long-lasting
brand damage.
But with SAP Business Network Material Traceability, you
can avoid the strain and risk that manual, disintegrated
recall processes present. Instead, you can automate the
submission and receipt of recalls and alerts for multi-
ingredient products and complex bills of materials
throughout your value chain. The solution receives and
sends alerts across your production facilities and trading
partners – driving efficient and precise recalls
and tracebacks.
As a result, the critical time and cost associated with
recalls can decrease considerably while you improve
customer and employee safety, maintain compliance, and
safeguard your brand reputation. Every material, supplier,
batch, serial number, warehouse, and customer delivery
can be quickly traced with the precision you can trust. In
addition, you can explore the bidirectional flow of
products from suppliers to customers through a dynamic
visual display.
Streamline Recalls and Compliance with
Automated Analytics
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10%–20% improvement in product
traceability with multi-ingredient tracing
at the batch level.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
public health concerns, and competitive pressures
continue to pose significant supply chain challenges –
increasing the risk of encountering complex recall events
involving a multitier supply chain. And for most businesses,
even one recall can bring penalties, added cost, revenue
loss, diminished consumer confidence, and long-lasting
brand damage.
But with SAP Business Network Material Traceability, you
can avoid the strain and risk that manual, disintegrated
recall processes present. Instead, you can automate the
submission and receipt of recalls and alerts for multi-
ingredient products and complex bills of materials
throughout your value chain. The solution receives and
sends alerts across your production facilities and trading
partners – driving efficient and precise recalls
and tracebacks.
As a result, the critical time and cost associated with
recalls can decrease considerably while you improve
customer and employee safety, maintain compliance, and
safeguard your brand reputation. Every material, supplier,
batch, serial number, warehouse, and customer delivery
can be quickly traced with the precision you can trust. In
addition, you can explore the bidirectional flow of
products from suppliers to customers through a dynamic
visual display.
Streamline Recalls and Compliance with
Automated Analytics
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10%–20% improvement in product
traceability with multi-ingredient tracing
at the batch level.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
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Intelligent and sustainable enterprises depend on
profound data-driven insights into their supply chains,
including the sustainability values and performance of
their trading partners. Transparency is the key to helping
ensure your trading partners’ sustainability activities align
with your values and customer expectations. And
collaboration is necessary to bring lasting ESG
improvements in the supply chain, so you are not alone in
trying to reach your sustainability goals.
SAP Business Network Material Traceability delivers that
level of visibility and collaboration needed to make
enduring sustainability decisions based on a range of
criteria and measures. The solution generates accurate
product genealogy and composition by facilitating
collaboration across your multitier supply network.
Through this capability, you can quantify progress toward
sustainability goals by analyzing products by extensible
properties compiled from your suppliers’ data. Remember:
you can only improve what you can measure. For instance,
your supply chain performance can be measured and
reported against ESG metrics. Your R&D team can also use
the information shared throughout your supply network to
calculate your product’s declining carbon impact or
compliance with restricted substance regulation.
Measure Sustainability Across Your Multitier Supply Chain
5%–30% improvement in
environmental compliance by reducing
supply chain waste.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives
Intelligent and sustainable enterprises depend on
profound data-driven insights into their supply chains,
including the sustainability values and performance of
their trading partners. Transparency is the key to helping
ensure your trading partners’ sustainability activities align
with your values and customer expectations. And
collaboration is necessary to bring lasting ESG
improvements in the supply chain, so you are not alone in
trying to reach your sustainability goals.
SAP Business Network Material Traceability delivers that
level of visibility and collaboration needed to make
enduring sustainability decisions based on a range of
criteria and measures. The solution generates accurate
product genealogy and composition by facilitating
collaboration across your multitier supply network.
Through this capability, you can quantify progress toward
sustainability goals by analyzing products by extensible
properties compiled from your suppliers’ data. Remember:
you can only improve what you can measure. For instance,
your supply chain performance can be measured and
reported against ESG metrics. Your R&D team can also use
the information shared throughout your supply network to
calculate your product’s declining carbon impact or
compliance with restricted substance regulation.
Measure Sustainability Across Your Multitier Supply Chain
5%–30% improvement in
environmental compliance by reducing
supply chain waste.
Source: Based on SAP performance benchmarking and customer proof points
Solution Quick factsBenefitsObjectives