A Better Way to Collaborate and Navigate the Networked Economy
Procurement Collaboration
Enhance procurement efficiency, compliance, spend transparency, and supply assurance through a worldwide supplier network.
Efficient Supplier Collaboration: Simplify collaboration with suppliers through digital platforms and improve cost-effectiveness, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency.
Automated Procurement Transactions: Automate procurement transactions and workflows to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual errors.
Improved Spend Transparency and Supplier Management: Improve spend transparency and supplier management to make informed decisions and maintain better supplier relationships.
Enhanced Regulatory Compliance: Ensure regulatory compliance and enhance process compliance with comprehensive solutions designed to meet industry standards.
Business Rule-based Spend Control: Enforce spend controls through business rules to manage budgets, improve compliance, and reduce maverick spending.
Procurement Collaboration
Streamline communication and collaboration with your suppliers through digital tools to enhance procurement operations, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.
Supplier Discovery
Find and connect with a wide range of qualified suppliers who can provide the products or services you need efficiently and quickly.
Supply Chain Collaboration
"Transparency through Automation and Optimization": Enable transparency and visibility by automating plans and optimizing capacity and inventory, streamlining workflows, and ensuring seamless communication.
Supply Planning Improvement: Enhance supply planning, quality, and predictability for better outcomes.
Trading Partner Data Sharing: Facilitate seamless data sharing with trading partners for improved collaboration.
Rapid Response to Disruptions: Quickly respond to potential disruptions and risks to avoid negative impact.
Efficiency and Resiliency: Increase operational efficiency and build supply chain resiliency.
Collaborate with partners to optimize planning, feasibility and forecast to achieve improved supply planning, predictability, and quality.
Supply Chain Collaboration
Collaborate with multiple tiers of trading partners and gain transparency across inventory, quality, and procurement processes to rapidly respond to disruption and risk and increase efficiency and resiliency.
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Improve logistics processes by collaborating with shippers and carriers, ensuring timely deliveries, and reducing supply chain risk.
Freight Collaboration: Simplify the process of collaborating on freight logistics.
Logistics Service Providers: Connect with service providers in the logistics industry.
Shipment Visibility: Gain better visibility into goods in transit.
Enhanced Shipment Tracking: Track shipments and enrich the data associated with them.
Deviation Analysis: Evaluate the impact of any deviations from the expected timeline.
Product Genealogy: Establish a chain of trust for the genealogy of products.
Freight Collaboration
Efficiently manage freight orders by gaining visibility into the entire lifecycle. Utilize digital tools to manage appointments, collaborate with partners, and streamline transactions.
Global Track and Trace
Improve logistics processes and enhance transparency by tracking goods in transit across the globe. Receive real-time notifications about any deviations and keep stakeholders informed about the fulfilment status.
Material Traceability
Ensure the safety and sustainability of your products by creating a chain of trust through product genealogy. Provide transparency to customers by enabling them to trace the origin and journey of the products.
Asset Collaboration
"Empowerment through a Single Network": Provide operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network to enhance transparency and resiliency in their operations.
Maximise uptime and efficiency of services
Implement a unified asset definition
Improve integrity and completeness of asset data
Enhance overall effectiveness of equipment
Collaborative Asset Management
Improve asset management by collaborating on a common asset definition and ensuring asset data integrity and completeness with trading partners for maximum uptime and service efficiency.
Finance Collaboration
Effectively manage risk and improve the financial supply chain by implementing working capital management solutions that enable businesses to free up working capital.
Early Payment Discounts: Obtain discounts from suppliers by securing early payment of invoices.
Supplier Financing: Offer third-party funding to suppliers for faster payment.
Receivables Financing: Get financing by using unpaid invoices as collateral.
Inventory Management: Improve inventory visibility and reduce lead times to optimize working capital.
Dynamic Discounting
Unlock savings and enhance supplier liquidity by offering early payments using surplus cash.
Supply Chain Finance
Empower your suppliers with the freedom to manage their cash flow with third-party funding.
Accounts Receivable Financing
Access capital efficiently and flexibly through outstanding receivables.
Inventory Management
Optimise your working capital by controlling lead times, delivery targets, and stock shortages.
Customer Collaboration
Grow your business and enhance customer satisfaction with tools designed for digital collaboration, suitable for suppliers, manufacturers, carriers, or service providers.
Efficient Customer Collaboration
Simplified Sales, Shipping, and Delivery Processes
Improved Supply Chain and Asset Visibility
Business Expansion and Customer Reach
Overview of SAP Business Network
Explore how SAP Business Network can benefit various trading partners such as suppliers, carriers, manufacturers, and service providers.
Streamlined Processes
Enjoy frictionless collaboration with customers through simplified processes for selling, shipping, and delivering goods.
Enhanced Visibility
Gain visibility along the supply chain and manage assets more effectively through better tracking and monitoring.
Business Growth
Expand your reach to new customers and drive business growth with the help of SAP Business Network's powerful tools and capabilities.
Don't miss out on the competitive advantage SAP Business Network can provide to your company!
