SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration
Optimise 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.
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.
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
- Digitally share forecasts that originate in your planning systems with your trading partners
Forecast commit
- Gain visibility of trading partner commitments to optimise your constrained supply plan
- Enable trading partners to fully or partially commit to the volume in each time bucket
External manufacturing visibility
- Equip your organisation 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
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
- Optimise 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
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
- Digitally share forecasts that originate in your planning systems with your trading partners
Forecast commit
- Gain visibility of trading partner commitments to optimise your constrained supply plan
- Enable trading partners to fully or partially commit to the volume in each time bucket
External manufacturing visibility
- Equip your organisation 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
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
- Optimise 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
Build a business case
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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 organisation.
Harnessing the power of networked supply chains
See how a business network can transform your supply chain and enable you to thrive in today’s unpredictable business environment.
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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.
Installation and setup
Follow the setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.
Configuration
Optimise configuration of SAP Business Network Planning Collaboration with our comprehensive configuration guide.
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