SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration

SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration

Streamline logistics and warehouse operations through efficient collaboration with a global network of carriers and logistics service providers.
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Reduce logistics costs and automate the contract-to-settlement process with visibility and insight across a global network of carriers and service providers.

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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 
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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. 

Features

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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

SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration

  • In blocks of 10000 Documents per year
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Features:

  • Metric:

    • This service is priced by "blocks of 10,000 documents" per year.
    • Subscription is based on documents, representing the number of business documents managed within a scenario during a one-year period, such as a freight order/booking for carrier collaboration or an appointment managed between logistics partners.

  • Minimum quantity:

    • The minimum quantity are 5 blocks of 10,000 documents.

  • Contract duration:

    • The minimum contract duration for this service is 3 months.
    • The yearly price is pro-rated per month for contract durations which are less than a year.

  • Payment methods:

    • Payment via invoice is supported for all countries.
    • Click on the "Buy Now" button to find out if payment via credit card is supported in your country.

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Technical information

This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any web browser.

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Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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Frequently asked questions

Digital freight collaboration is the use of web and mobile-based technology for shippers, carriers, and logistics services providers to tender and execute on spot and long-term logistics contracts based on market rates, performance requirements, and capacity.

Freight collaboration on a business network enables shippers to tender and execute the end-to-end freight order or booking lifecycle with a network of carriers or logistics services providers. The shipper finds and connects with carriers and logistics providers already on the network or invites them to join the network for optimal capacity utilisation. Shippers, carriers, and logistics services providers are connected on one platform for digital transacting and system integration.

Digital freight collaboration between a shipper and a carrier or logistics services provider enables faster, more competitive prices for reduced logistics costs, as well as digitalised transacting and dock appointment scheduling for improved capacity utilisation and logistics performance.

Digital freight order tendering and booking, as well as comprehensive digital transacting from contracting through to settlement, is conducted between shippers and carriers or logistics services providers the shipper connects with on SAP Business Network, or the shipper invites them to join SAP Business Network for free.

Digital freight collaboration on SAP Business Network includes order contracting, dispute management, and settlement for multiple modes of transportation between a shipper's transportation management system and the carrier or services provider – all on one standard platform. Setups where the logistics services provider plans the transport are also supported. Shippers and carriers can collaborate through the solution on dock appointment scheduling and gate processing. Carriers and logistics services providers can use either a web portal or set up flexible integration to their back-end system for collaboration with shippers.