SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration
Collaborate on a single version of the truth for optimal asset management
Empower operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network to achieve resiliency and transparency across the asset lifecycle.
Create a common asset data foundation among OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers. The SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration solution enables information exchange to improve asset commissioning and streamline work order processing.
Create a common asset data foundation among OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers. The SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration solution enables information exchange to improve asset commissioning and streamline work order processing.
Key Benefits
Maximize uptime
Center asset collaboration around a common asset definition to accelerate commissioning, maintenance, and performance tuning so operators can maximize uptime.
Improve asset data integrity and completeness
Access asset and maintenance information in one platform to improve productivity, enhance service quality, increase customer satisfaction, and reduce costs.
Enhance equipment effectiveness
Enable transparency and collaboration on equipment failures and maintenance among your trading partners to achieve optimal equipment effectiveness.
Our Customers
Key Features
Single platform for stakeholders
- Uniquely identify an owner’s assets across the entire asset lifecycle
- Request and link an owner’s asset to the manufacturer’s model
- Share data and documents for operations, maintenance, spare parts, and warranties to enable uniformity and transparency across the ecosystem
Network collaboration
- Bring the asset management ecosystem onto one collaboration platform
- Gain critical visibility and transparency across your ecosystem to optimize performance
- Collaborate with existing and new partners to scale efficiently
Collaborative asset definition
- Create an asset foundation for OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers
- Promote asset data integrity by providing a common digital replica of an asset among stakeholders
- Ensure one channel for electronic data handover from OEM or constructors to operators
Collaborative maintenance and service
- Enable a shared platform for work order collaboration between asset operators and service providers
- Support collaborative maintenance planning and execution with a common work order among stakeholders
- Reach benchmarks for operational equipment effectiveness with efficient maintenance programs
Digital vehicle hub
- Unify your vehicle repository along the automotive value chain
- Secure insights, monetize data, and create mobility scenarios
- Enable an open partner network
Single platform for stakeholders
- Uniquely identify an owner’s assets across the entire asset lifecycle
- Request and link an owner’s asset to the manufacturer’s model
- Share data and documents for operations, maintenance, spare parts, and warranties to enable uniformity and transparency across the ecosystem
Network collaboration
- Bring the asset management ecosystem onto one collaboration platform
- Gain critical visibility and transparency across your ecosystem to optimize performance
- Collaborate with existing and new partners to scale efficiently
Collaborative asset definition
- Create an asset foundation for OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers
- Promote asset data integrity by providing a common digital replica of an asset among stakeholders
- Ensure one channel for electronic data handover from OEM or constructors to operators
Collaborative maintenance and service
- Enable a shared platform for work order collaboration between asset operators and service providers
- Support collaborative maintenance planning and execution with a common work order among stakeholders
- Reach benchmarks for operational equipment effectiveness with efficient maintenance programs
Digital vehicle hub
- Unify your vehicle repository along the automotive value chain
- Secure insights, monetize data, and create mobility scenarios
- Enable an open partner network
Digital Vehicle Hub
Across the automotive and mobility value chain, you can enable new monetization streams.
Build a business case
Stay resilient with collaborative asset management
Increase transparency and optimize asset management by collaborating on a single version of the truth across trading partners.
Boost customer experiences with a unified platform
Learn how SBB optimized asset maintenance planning and processes to deliver safe and reliable travel experiences for its customers.
Achieve maximum value with intelligent asset management
As manufacturers adapt to changing economic and competitive pressures, many are adopting an Industry 4.0 mindset with a focus on transitioning from an automated to intelligent manufacturing and intelligent asset management mindset.
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.
Installation and setup
Follow the setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.
Configuration
Optimize configuration of SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration with our comprehensive configuration guide.
Integration
Find out how you can integrate SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration with your existing IT landscape.
Get Started
Jump-start your implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.
Services
Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.
Support
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Security and compliance
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Frequently Asked Questions
Asset management is the systematic approach to the governance, use, and maintenance of physical assets to mitigate risk and maximize effectiveness and return on investment throughout the physical asset lifecycle. Asset management extends through the phases of the asset lifecycle: planning, procurement or acquisition, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning or disposal. Read more about enterprise asset management.
Asset collaboration on SAP Business Network is the sharing of asset data and workflow processes between an asset owner, operator, manufacturer, and service provider – spanning asset definition, commissioning, and maintenance – to help achieve optimal asset management.
SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration enables a common asset data foundation among OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers. These asset ecosystem partners leverage SAP Business Network to collaborate on a single version of asset data and common processes for optimal asset management.
SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration benefits operators, OEMs, and maintenance and service providers. Asset operators can enhance asset effectiveness to accelerate commissioning and maintenance and improve performance to maximize uptime. OEMs can reduce cost, increase customer satisfaction, and enable new business models, such as equipment as a service (EaaS). Maintenance and service providers can strengthen customer relationships while reducing cost, MRO inventories, and wrench time.
Asset operators rely on SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration to extend their enterprise asset management solutions for cross-company collaboration among ecosystem partners. Collaborative asset definition with OEMs and constructors facilitates commissioning through a single source of asset data, while collaborative maintenance and service allows operators and service providers to plan and execute service work orders from a single platform.