SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration

Collaborate with your trading partners on demand plans and forecasts to assure supply of critical raw materials and components.
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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration

  • Included:

    • Supplier collaboration capability for forecasting, capacity planning, and manufacturing visibility (when integrated with SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, SAP S/4HANA, or other solution).
    • A digital connected and collaborative supply network that enables customers to align supply and demand by gaining a complete visibility into supply availability across multiple time horizons.
    • One production tenant of SAP Business Network.
    • One test tenant of SAP Business Network.

  • Metric:

    • This service is priced by flat fee.
    • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage.

  • Price upon request:

    • Pricing structure details are available on request.
  • In blocks of 1 Flat Fee
  • Contract duration 1 to 5 years
  • Auto-renewal

  • Included:

    • Supplier collaboration capability for forecasting, capacity planning, and manufacturing visibility (when integrated with SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, SAP S/4HANA, or other solution).
    • A digital connected and collaborative supply network that enables customers to align supply and demand by gaining a complete visibility into supply availability across multiple time horizons.
    • One production tenant of SAP Business Network.
    • One test tenant of SAP Business Network.

  • Metric:

    • This service is priced by flat fee.
    • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage.

  • Price upon request:

    • Pricing structure details are available on request.
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Resources

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Where to start with business networks?

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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.

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Collaborative planning with trading partners

Align supply and demand planning over multiple time horizons and create a demand-driven, build-to-order organization.

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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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Frequently asked questions

Planning collaboration enables buyers and suppliers to digitally collaborate on forecasts and demand plans to provide trading partners with demand plan visibility and commit to forecasted requirements, helping ensure supply and delivery of critical materials and components.

Planning collaboration enables buyers to gain visibility into trading partner commitments to optimize constrained supply plans. This can help improve assurance of supply upstream in the supply chain, allowing for more complete and reliable delivery to downstream customers; move uncommitted volume to a secondary supply source quickly for better supply chain resilience; and reduce planning cycle and overall product lead time.

The SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration solution provides buyers and suppliers with a common view for real-time orchestration of supply plans. Because planners are alerted immediately for any under- or over-commitment to component demand, mitigating actions can be taken earlier in the planning cycle.

External manufacturing planning visibility enables complete supply chain visibility and equips organizations to work with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across key supply chain planning and execution processes. In addition, suppliers can report stock-on-hand quantities in their inventory so buyers can use this information to better manage strategic components and materials to proactively detect supply disruptions.

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