SAP Business Network Material Traceability
Extend supply chain transparency for sustainability and safety
Capture complete material provenance from raw material to finished product to enhance safety, sustainability, and customer loyalty.
Whether tracing batch or serial numbers across your value chain, you can improve efficiency, enhance trust, and improve sustainability by extending supply chain transparency with the SAP Business Network Material Traceability solution.
Whether tracing batch or serial numbers across your value chain, you can improve efficiency, enhance trust, and improve sustainability by extending supply chain transparency with the SAP Business Network Material Traceability solution.
Key Benefits
Protect your brand
Instill trust among customers and the market, support compliance, and mitigate risk by demonstrating data-driven stewardship of your product and your brand.
Streamline recalls
Automate the submission and receipt of recalls and alerts for multi-ingredient products and complex bills of materials up- and downstream in your value chain.
Measure sustainability
Drive compliance and meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals with an accurate measure of multitier raw material and subcomponent properties.
Key Features
Multi-ingredient and multicomponent traceability
Real-time dynamic visualization
Precision alerts through the network
Multi-ingredient and multicomponent traceability
Real-time dynamic visualization
Precision alerts through the network
Build a business case
Trace multi-ingredient products across companies
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Boost supply chain resilience and brand protection
Connect with your trading partners across the logistics ecosystem to collaborate and exchange insights more efficiently.
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 Material Traceability with our comprehensive configuration guide.
Integration
Find out how you can integrate SAP Business Network Material Traceability 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
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Support
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Security and compliance
Focus on your business and customer relationships while keeping your data safe and reliable. SAP takes a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data center.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Material traceability is the process of ensuring that the raw materials or components of a product have a record of origin, production, and destination or consumption to support traceback or recall analysis after receipt, production, or distribution. Material traceability is part of supply chain analytics and plays a critical role in quality, manufacturing and planning, legal and compliance, brand management, and sustainability functions, among others.
Material traceability enables the transparency needed for supply chain accountability to support safety, quality, compliance, and brand integrity. Accurate and efficient material or product traceability is essential in food and beverage, agriculture, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, and regulated industries, among others.
Material traceability origin and product attribute data can come from suppliers at every level of a supply chain, sufficient to meet a manufacturer's or brand owner's requirements and objectives. Critical material and product traceability data can also come from the manufacturer and its distribution and retail partners, as well as customers and consumers, for full end-to-end traceability.
Material traceability enables faster and more accurate recalls and tracebacks when quality or safety issues arise. Manufactures and brand owners are able to meet compliance and brand integrity requirements more efficiently and demonstrate product stewardship and authenticity more accurately. The benefits of material traceability enhance the effectiveness of quality, compliance sustainability, and supply chain analytics functions.
SAP Business Network Material Traceability captures event and attribute data for batch or serialized products from trading partners, enabling bidirectional tracing through a graphical visualization showing the digital trail of inputs and outputs. The solution enables precise, efficient recalls and tracebacks, along with alerts, extensible attributes for sustainability or other product composition analysis, and native reporting that can be extended and integrated through APIs.
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