Why choose SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace over individual visibility platforms
See why SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace provides more comprehensive and unifying logistics visibility compared to individual platforms in a side-by-side comparison. Download the DocumentSAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
Why choose
SAP Business Network
Global Track and Trace
over individual visibility
platforms
Why choose
SAP Business Network
Global Track and Trace
over individual visibility
platforms
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Own your path to logistics visibility
Leading manufacturing and distribution companies understand how logistics visibility can transform supply
chains and fulfillment operations. They can not only track the movement of goods in real time but also make
better decisions faster to pave the way to increased operational efficiency and proactive mitigation of disruption.
When gaining logistics visibility, companies face important
decisions on where to get their data and how to leverage
it to improve business performance. Logistics visibility data
can come from diverse sources, including providers covering
different regions or modes of transportation. However,
integrating visibility data from multiple sources can be costly,
complex, and risky – as can sending core business information
outside your secure and controlled environment.
The SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace solution
unifies logistics visibility in one place – across regions,
transportation modes, and data sources. In return, you can
gain logistics visibility in the context of your business operations
without compromising your core business system environment,
for example:
• Consolidate information on in-progress shipments related
to purchases, sales, or stock transfer orders
• Access real-time updates from multiple sources, such as
logistics visibility data aggregators, freight forwarders,
and carriers across regions and modes of transportation
• Track orders and shipments, assess risks and plan deviations,
and analyze impacts – turning insight into action to avoid or
mitigate disruptions
Own your path to logistics visibility
Leading manufacturing and distribution companies understand how logistics visibility can transform supply
chains and fulfillment operations. They can not only track the movement of goods in real time but also make
better decisions faster to pave the way to increased operational efficiency and proactive mitigation of disruption.
When gaining logistics visibility, companies face important
decisions on where to get their data and how to leverage
it to improve business performance. Logistics visibility data
can come from diverse sources, including providers covering
different regions or modes of transportation. However,
integrating visibility data from multiple sources can be costly,
complex, and risky – as can sending core business information
outside your secure and controlled environment.
The SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace solution
unifies logistics visibility in one place – across regions,
transportation modes, and data sources. In return, you can
gain logistics visibility in the context of your business operations
without compromising your core business system environment,
for example:
• Consolidate information on in-progress shipments related
to purchases, sales, or stock transfer orders
• Access real-time updates from multiple sources, such as
logistics visibility data aggregators, freight forwarders,
and carriers across regions and modes of transportation
• Track orders and shipments, assess risks and plan deviations,
and analyze impacts – turning insight into action to avoid or
mitigate disruptions
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Gain a consolidated advantage with
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
Explore how SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace can unify
visibility into your supply chain and fulfillment operations.
Connect once, collaborate with many
• Avoid numerous costly custom integrations. Instead, you can
access and aggregate tracking across networks, transportation
modes, and geographies. This is accomplished by collecting
and standardizing real-time data feeds from multiple regional
and global visibility providers in one place.
Handle disparate data sources
• Receive event updates in parallel from directly connected
carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics service providers
through API or EDI. Harmonizing data from multiple sources
in a single solution helps mitigate the risk of disintegrated
updates from various partners.
Analyze impacts
• Bridge gaps between your logistics information and business
operations. You can receive alerts on deviations from plans
spanning purchases, sales, stock transfer orders, and their
related deliveries and shipments. Additionally, you can
evaluate the impact of plan deviations on related business
processes, improving operational responsiveness.
Gain a consolidated advantage with
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
Explore how SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace can unify
visibility into your supply chain and fulfillment operations.
Connect once, collaborate with many
• Avoid numerous costly custom integrations. Instead, you can
access and aggregate tracking across networks, transportation
modes, and geographies. This is accomplished by collecting
and standardizing real-time data feeds from multiple regional
and global visibility providers in one place.
Handle disparate data sources
• Receive event updates in parallel from directly connected
carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics service providers
through API or EDI. Harmonizing data from multiple sources
in a single solution helps mitigate the risk of disintegrated
updates from various partners.
Analyze impacts
• Bridge gaps between your logistics information and business
operations. You can receive alerts on deviations from plans
spanning purchases, sales, stock transfer orders, and their
related deliveries and shipments. Additionally, you can
evaluate the impact of plan deviations on related business
processes, improving operational responsiveness.
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Achieve insight to action
• Jettison the need for look-up tables and swivel-chair
processes between multiple external portals by aligning
business documents with shipment tracking in a single
solution. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace helps
increase situational awareness through natively embedded,
real-time progress updates on a map enriched with detailed
business context from your ERP.
Benefit from standard and flexible integration
• Simplify the complexity of your IT landscape supporting
transportation processes. The network helps smooth the
path for estimated time of arrival and other
essential logistics visibility
information back to your
core business system, such
as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and
the SAP Transportation
Management application.
Maintain a consistent and personalized user experience
• Eliminate the need to maintain individual user access to
multiple systems, and mitigate the risks of insufficient access
controls. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
maintains consistent user access through standard and
configurable roles, so your team can see and act on
relevant information.
Tailor your tracking process
• Prevent process variations that emerge from using different
platform setups and capabilities. With access to standard
applications and templates, you can apply flexible and
extensible configuration capabilities while defining custom
fields, tracking and execution statuses, event types, and
event-to-action scripts. You can even build custom process
scenarios from scratch, if needed can see and act on
relevant information. operational responsiveness.
Gain a consolidated advantage with
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
Achieve insight to action
• Jettison the need for look-up tables and swivel-chair
processes between multiple external portals by aligning
business documents with shipment tracking in a single
solution. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace helps
increase situational awareness through natively embedded,
real-time progress updates on a map enriched with detailed
business context from your ERP.
Benefit from standard and flexible integration
• Simplify the complexity of your IT landscape supporting
transportation processes. The network helps smooth the
path for estimated time of arrival and other
essential logistics visibility
information back to your
core business system, such
as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and
the SAP Transportation
Management application.
Maintain a consistent and personalized user experience
• Eliminate the need to maintain individual user access to
multiple systems, and mitigate the risks of insufficient access
controls. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
maintains consistent user access through standard and
configurable roles, so your team can see and act on
relevant information.
Tailor your tracking process
• Prevent process variations that emerge from using different
platform setups and capabilities. With access to standard
applications and templates, you can apply flexible and
extensible configuration capabilities while defining custom
fields, tracking and execution statuses, event types, and
event-to-action scripts. You can even build custom process
scenarios from scratch, if needed can see and act on
relevant information. operational responsiveness.
Gain a consolidated advantage with
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace