SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration

SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration

Collaborate with your trading partners on a single networked platform to assure supply of direct materials through better planning, inventory visibility, and automation.
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Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain

Eliminate siloed, manual processes across your supply chain and better collaborate with trading partners on planning, inventory, and quality management processes.

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The SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration solution enables you to collaborate on and automate procurement transactions on a single networked platform, improving inventory visibility, quality control, and management.

  • Improved predictability and quality of supply
  • Ability to share insights and data digitally with trading partners
  • Lower supply chain disruption, risk, and demand volatility
  • Reduced cost and inefficiency across supply chain functions
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Key benefits

Improve trading partner collaboration

Extend your processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to remove data silos, exchange documents digitally, and execute transactions.

Drive supply chain resiliency

Respond rapidly to disruption to prevent revenue loss and unforeseen costs due to stock-outs, materials shortages, work stoppages, and demand fluctuations.

Gain transparency and visibility

Leverage plan-driven process automation, historical insights, and digitalized collaboration to help ensure delivery to theright customer at the right time​.

Key features

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Forecast collaboration
  • Provide trading partners with forecast visibility, including production line capacity
  • Allow suppliers and contract manufacturers to adjust and commit to forecasts sent by buyers
  • Receive custom alerts that inform you about component commitments, enabling you to take mitigating actions earlier
Procurement collaboration
  • Streamline procurement transactions with digital processes that extend to trading partners and logistics providers
  • Send digital purchase orders over the network and gain visibility of order confirmation and shipping
  • Track orders in transit so you can achieve on-time customer deliveries
Inventory collaboration
  • Gain visibility into supplier-managed inventory for improved inventory management
  • Use replenishment orders or scheduling agreements to maintain optimal inventory levels
  • Share data to provide stakeholders with instant access to the status of materials needed for manufacturing
Quality collaboration
  • Gain visibility into quality issues and complaints while aligning with trading partners to drive quick resolution
  • Eliminate manual information exchange and standardize quality collaboration with your trading partners
  • Accelerate quality inspections to increase on-time customer deliveries
Manufacturing collaboration
  • Equip your organization to work with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers
  • Enable suppliers to report stock-on-hand inventory so you can manage strategic components and proactively detect supply disruptions
  • Accelerate quality inspections to increase on-time customer deliveries and protect brand reputation
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Technical and security 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

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Configuration

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Integration

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Data security

Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.

Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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 securitycontrols to mitigate internal and external risk.

  • Process and transmit data confidentlythrough 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

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Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Supply chain collaboration refers to how buyers and their trading partners can exchange information digitally to ensure supply chain resiliency across forecasts, orders, inventory, logistics, and quality. Dashboards increase visibility into supply chain issues and provide alerts for rapid resolution.

Supply chain visibility enables risk mitigation and impact avoidance and management by providing transparency and insights that make supply chains more agile, optimized, sustainable, and resilient to disruption.

The SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration solution enables buyers and their trading partners to collaborate on demand plans and forecasts, direct materials buying and invoicing, inventory optimization, and quality documentation for direct materials and components.

Supply chain collaboration enables buyers and their trading partners to increase multitier transparency into inventory, capacity, and supply; develop resiliency and respond to risk along the supply chain; and drive sustainability within the supply chain.

Quality collaboration enables buyers and their suppliers to quickly detect quality issues and complaints, exchange quality documentation with one another, and align to drive quick resolution.