SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration

Drive resiliency and transparency through collaborative asset definition and maintenance.
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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.

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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.

  • Cloud deployment
  • One entry point for asset stakeholders
  • Asset data foundation for asset definition, commissioning, and maintenance
  • Collaborative asset management and maintenance among trading partners
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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.

Key features

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Central asset repository

  • Central asset registry from multiple data sources and asset management systems

  • Cloud-based, flexible, modular, and scalable asset data modeling

  • Single source of truth, effective benchmarking reports, and bad actors identification

  • Integration with the SAP S/4HANA Asset Management solution

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Collaborative data handover

  • One network channel for asset data commissioning from OEMs and constructors to asset operators

  • Smooth data handover between manufacturers and asset operators using a single digital twin

  • Standardized asset data taxonomy between asset trading partners

  • Native integration with back-end maintenance execution system

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Collaborative work order

  • One portal for asset maintenance collaboration between asset operators and external contractors

  • Common work order across work order management

  • Better visibility into and control over contractor and commercial readiness

  • Work-order integrations with maintenance management systems

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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, including 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.