Bringing the consumer products ecosystem together on a connected platform
In the consumer products industry, every company is interconnected. Learn how SAP Business Network enables businesses to effectively collaborate and automate business processes across every point of the supply chain. Завантажити документ
In the consumer products industry, every company is interconnected. Learn how SAP Business Network enables businesses to effectively collaborate and automate business processes across every point of the supply chain. SAP Business Network for
Consumer Products
Bringing the consumer products ecosystem
together on a connected network
Building a strong supply chain in the
consumer products industry
In today’s interconnected world, businesses of
all sizes rely on a network of suppliers, carriers,
contract manufacturers, and co-packers to keep
operations running smoothly. These partnerships
are essential—not only for maintaining regulatory
compliance and operational efficiency, but also
for ensuring that high-quality products reach
customers on time, every time.
In the consumer products industry, it’s becoming
crucial not just to work with your suppliers
but to collaborate effectively to unlock faster
innovation across business processes.
Keys to collaboration
Effective collaboration depends on more than
just communication—it thrives on seamless
information exchange, process automation, and
shared visibility into business outcomes. Yet for
many consumer products companies, automation
stops at their own walls. Internal systems rarely
extend to the wider ecosystem, leaving critical
gaps in connectivity.
When companies are forced to fall back on
outdated, manual processes to work with their
suppliers, inefficiencies multiply, visibility
disappears, and maintaining compliance
becomes a steep challenge to overcome.
Consumer products companies must find a way
to overcome obstacles such as:
• Breakpoints in business processes
• Inefficient manual communication methods
• One-to-one transactions with limited visibility
State of collaboration in the
consumer products industry*
About 95%
of surveyed firms rely extensively
on legacy methods (e-mail, fax,
and phone) to transmit and
receive documents
About 66%
report that poor collaboration
hampers operational efficiency,
with 47% observing profit
declines
About 39%
prioritize cost-efficiency at the
expense of resiliency, often
compromising their ability to
respond to disruptions
*Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by SAP, Accelerating Supply Chain
Collaboration Maturity with a Business Network, #US53179225, April 2025
Consumer Products
Bringing the consumer products ecosystem
together on a connected network
Building a strong supply chain in the
consumer products industry
In today’s interconnected world, businesses of
all sizes rely on a network of suppliers, carriers,
contract manufacturers, and co-packers to keep
operations running smoothly. These partnerships
are essential—not only for maintaining regulatory
compliance and operational efficiency, but also
for ensuring that high-quality products reach
customers on time, every time.
In the consumer products industry, it’s becoming
crucial not just to work with your suppliers
but to collaborate effectively to unlock faster
innovation across business processes.
Keys to collaboration
Effective collaboration depends on more than
just communication—it thrives on seamless
information exchange, process automation, and
shared visibility into business outcomes. Yet for
many consumer products companies, automation
stops at their own walls. Internal systems rarely
extend to the wider ecosystem, leaving critical
gaps in connectivity.
When companies are forced to fall back on
outdated, manual processes to work with their
suppliers, inefficiencies multiply, visibility
disappears, and maintaining compliance
becomes a steep challenge to overcome.
Consumer products companies must find a way
to overcome obstacles such as:
• Breakpoints in business processes
• Inefficient manual communication methods
• One-to-one transactions with limited visibility
State of collaboration in the
consumer products industry*
About 95%
of surveyed firms rely extensively
on legacy methods (e-mail, fax,
and phone) to transmit and
receive documents
About 66%
report that poor collaboration
hampers operational efficiency,
with 47% observing profit
declines
About 39%
prioritize cost-efficiency at the
expense of resiliency, often
compromising their ability to
respond to disruptions
*Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by SAP, Accelerating Supply Chain
Collaboration Maturity with a Business Network, #US53179225, April 2025
SAP Business Network for Consumer Products
Collaborate and automate across each point
of your supply chain
As a recognized market leader with a significant
footprint in the consumer products value chain,
SAP offers SAP Business Network as a single
trading partner network that spans a wide
variety of business processes, and our coverage
continues to expand. We help you extend your
critical business processes across your suppliers
through integration with your back-end systems—
both SAP and third-party—increasing the value
of your existing ERP landscape.
The benefits of unifying from end to end
With SAP Business Network, consumer products
companies vastly improve their overall
operational visibility and orchestration across
their contract manufacturing network through
supply chain process collaboration. This includes
both planning and order execution, allowing
companies to optimize inventory of finished
goods and raw materials through process
standardization, automated exchanges, and
quality collaboration with batch information.
Improved collaboration with chief marketing
officers in communicating process requirements
provides streamlined manufacturing
orchestration.
Additionally, consumer products companies
can use SAP Business Network to trace the
provenance of raw materials to product for
quality, social responsibility, and sustainability
footprint data.
With the help of the SAP Business Network
Global Track and Trace solution, companies can
monitor the sales and purchase order fulfillment
process and track associated shipments in
real time. The intelligent insights add-on to
SAP Business Network allows companies to
set up a global logistics situation room, where
they can track their global freight movements.
SAP Business Network helps your consumer
products company gain visibility into
procurement, supply chain, logistics, and
asset management processes so that you can:
• Respond more quickly to changing
circumstances
• Manage and avoid disruptions
• Operate more efficiently
• Comply with internal and external policies and
regulations
SAP Business Network for Consumer Products
Build stronger supply chains so that you can deliver
on your customer promise.
Learn more
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Collaborate and automate across each point
of your supply chain
As a recognized market leader with a significant
footprint in the consumer products value chain,
SAP offers SAP Business Network as a single
trading partner network that spans a wide
variety of business processes, and our coverage
continues to expand. We help you extend your
critical business processes across your suppliers
through integration with your back-end systems—
both SAP and third-party—increasing the value
of your existing ERP landscape.
The benefits of unifying from end to end
With SAP Business Network, consumer products
companies vastly improve their overall
operational visibility and orchestration across
their contract manufacturing network through
supply chain process collaboration. This includes
both planning and order execution, allowing
companies to optimize inventory of finished
goods and raw materials through process
standardization, automated exchanges, and
quality collaboration with batch information.
Improved collaboration with chief marketing
officers in communicating process requirements
provides streamlined manufacturing
orchestration.
Additionally, consumer products companies
can use SAP Business Network to trace the
provenance of raw materials to product for
quality, social responsibility, and sustainability
footprint data.
With the help of the SAP Business Network
Global Track and Trace solution, companies can
monitor the sales and purchase order fulfillment
process and track associated shipments in
real time. The intelligent insights add-on to
SAP Business Network allows companies to
set up a global logistics situation room, where
they can track their global freight movements.
SAP Business Network helps your consumer
products company gain visibility into
procurement, supply chain, logistics, and
asset management processes so that you can:
• Respond more quickly to changing
circumstances
• Manage and avoid disruptions
• Operate more efficiently
• Comply with internal and external policies and
regulations
SAP Business Network for Consumer Products
Build stronger supply chains so that you can deliver
on your customer promise.
Learn more
88415enUS (25/11) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to this material.