Benefit from an open logistics network that connects business partners for intercompany collaboration and insights. SAP Logistics Business Network provides a central entry point to manage logistics transactions, exchange documents with key business partners, and gain transparency across the complete value chain through an open, network of networks strategy.
SAP Logistics Business Network
Improve freight logistics collaboration, goods tracking, and material traceability with an open logistics network.
Ease intercompany logistics with collaboration and insights
Key Benefits
Break up siloed business operations
Onboard once and collaborate with many stakeholders on an open network that tightly integrates with your logistics business processes.
Improve efficiency of logistics processes
Use real-time information and situational insights to ease decision-making for every role and find the best way to automate logistics collaboration.
Cut the cost of integrating your value chain
Apply common communication standards and digitalize them across your complete network of logistics processes.
Key Capabilities
Freight logistics collaboration
- Support shippers in their collaboration with third-party logistics providers
- Manage transactions jointly and share insights across the value chain
- Oversee the complete freight order lifecycle and manage appointments
- Leverage real-time connectivity and visibility
Tracking and tracing
- Monitor purchase, sales, and delivery fulfillment
- Avoid costly firefighting by notifying relevant stakeholders about deviations from the plan
- Get visibility into your goods in transit to optimize your logistics supply chain
- Extend your reach with custom integration into other networks
Material traceability
- Improve transparency, trust, efficiency, and sustainability by connecting your supply chain
- Get end-to-end multi-ingredient traceability and trace material provenance from raw material origin to finished product
- Provide cross-company alerting for product issues to streamline recalls
Build a business case
Döhler increases efficiency and improves service
Find out how Döhler digitalizes intercompany logistics to deliver the right product in the right place at the right time.
project44 and SAP power intelligent supply chain decisions
Improve order fulfillment, reduce costs, and optimize service with access to precise, real-time locations of goods in transit.
Uber Freight and SAP deliver on-demand logistics
See how simplified load management and execution allows shippers to access transportation rates from Uber’s digitally-activated carrier network to work more efficiently.
Trace multi-ingredient products across companies
Leverage SAP Logistics Business Network, material traceability option, for end-to-end supply-chain product and recall management.
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.
Configuration
Optimize configuration of SAP Logistics Business Network with our comprehensive administration guides for all relevant releases.
Integration
Find out how you can seamlessly integrate SAP Logistics Business Network with your existing IT landscape.
Pricing Options for SAP Logistics Business Network
Select the freight collaboration, global track and trace, and material traceability options or project44 add-ons for your specific business needs.
Freight collaboration option
Price upon request
Freight collaboration option
Price upon request
Connect with your relevant logistics partners for closed-loop, preconfigured business collaboration and insights.
- Manage and survey the complete freight order lifecycle with carriers, from tendering to invoicing
- Book and manage dock appointments
- Get access to unlimited network connections
Global track and trace option
Price upon request
Global track and trace option
Price upon request
Monitor processes and goods in transit across your global inbound, manufacturing, and fulfillment chain.
- Survey the timely execution of milestones
- Notify stakeholders of exceptions or updates, and trigger follow-ups based on defined rules
- Offer business users insights for their specific needs
Test tenant
Price upon request
Test tenant
Price upon request
Explore the functionality of SAP Logistics Business Network, freight collaboration and global track and trace in a non-productive test environment.
- Gain access to 10,000 documents in total
- Benefit from private connections
- Receive standard cloud support
project44 add-ons
Price upon request
project44 add-ons
Price upon request
Facilitate a more proactive, data-driven supply chain.
- Choose from FTL, LTL, ocean, and rail visibility, as well as B2B collaboration for road contracting
- Ingest real-time location data and predictive delivery ETA from one of the fastest growing visibility platforms
- Complement SAP apps for collaboration and insights through API-based, direct back-end, or device connections with your global carriers
Material traceability option
Price upon request
Material traceability option
Price upon request
Initiate your own permissioned network and enable product traceability across company boundaries.
- Leverage the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service
- Capture material provenance data
- Utilize provenance analysis and recall alerts
- Invite network participants and data contributors
Includes the related usage of SAP Cloud Identity and SAP Fiori.
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