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SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration
Collaborate with your trading partners on demand plans and forecasts to assure supply of critical raw materials and components.
Optimize supply chain inventory levels with planning collaboration
Get early visibility into supply availability by aligning with your trading partners on supply and demand planning and commitments over multiple time horizons.
Gain full visibility into availability of supply across the planning horizon with the SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration solution. You and your trading partners can identify and address demand shifts and agree on material requirements.
- Shared forecast and demand plans between buyers and suppliers
- Common view of inventory levels for buyers and suppliers
- Full visibility of trading partner commitments to demand plans
- Customer alert for timely mitigation
How to achieve a three-year ROI of 404%
IDC study reveals the business value realized by SAP Business Network customers.
Key benefits
Improve supply planning
Reduce latency and improve quality of demand and supply signals that are critical inputs to net requirements planning calculations.
Reduce lead times
Cut planning cycles and overall product lead time with a responsive, process-driven workflow.
Assure supply and delivery
Improve assurance of supply upstream in the supply chain, allowing for more complete and reliable delivery to downstream customers.
Key features
Forecast visibility
Provide trading partners with forecast visibility through a common view for real-time orchestration of supply plans
Receive custom alerts that inform you about supply commitments, enabling you to take mitigating actions earlier
Share forecasts digitally that originate in your planning systems with your trading partners
Component planning collaboration
Drive real-time visibility for finished goods and components with a single planning view, including multitier trading partners
Anticipate disruptions with digital collaboration across production, yield, and consumption of goods for manufacturing
Foster supply chain efficiency through smooth collaboration across OEMs, contract manufacturers, and multitier suppliers
External manufacturing visibility
Equip your organization to work with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across supply chain planning processes
Obtain reports from trading partners on stock-on-hand quantities to better manage strategic components and proactively detect supply disruptions
Reduce component and material waste through more effective inventory management
Forecast commit
Gain visibility of trading partner commitments to optimize your constrained supply plan
Enable trading partners to fully or partially commit to the volume in each time bucket
Supply chain monitoring
Uncover potential problem areas in your supply chain, such as forecasts where your trading partners cannot fully commit to your anticipated demand
Optimize your supply plan to move uncommitted volume to a secondary supply source
Reporting
Receive reports about stock on hand and other key information
Get reports about supplier component manufacturing quantities, providing visibility into the manufacturing process and enabling detection of supply disruptions
Pricing
Deploy with SAP NS2's secure cloud model
Protect your data and mitigate risk with additional security controls.
Resources
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Lessons learned from best-run supply chain networks
Find out how you can enable an intelligent network to connect extended supply chains and optimize collaboration and visibility.
Collaborative planning with trading partners
Align supply and demand planning over multiple time horizons and create a demand-driven, build-to-order organization.
Portfolio recognition and awards
SAP Business Network is recognized for its multi-facted industry leadership based on verified user reviews, ratings, and in-depth customer insights.
Technical information
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SAP Business Network deployed through SAP NS2’s secure cloud model
Gain supply chain and procurement process support while operating in an environment dedicated to security, data access, residency, and sovereignty.
Collaborate with trading partners, strengthen operations, and mitigate risk with additional security compliance
By deploying SAP Business Network through SAP NS2's secure cloud model, you can protect your sensitive information with additional security controls to mitigate internal and external risk.
Process and transmit data confidently through the SAP NS2 security model
Reduce TCO and increase time to value through automated solution deployment and security management
Ensure regional security standards are enforced across your trading partner network
Enhanced security for operations
Process and transmit data through the SAP NS2 security model to mitigate the risk of international data exposure and prevent bad actors from accessing supply chain data.
Innovation backed by region-specific resources
Increase control of your cloud operations through a security model with in-country, credentialed resources who understand innovation and regional data regulations.
Localized protection of critical data
Leverage a heightened security model for end-to-end protection and comply with U.S. regulations to safeguard trading partner supply chain information.
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