SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration
Drive efficiency and resilience with streamlined carrier collaboration
Reduce logistics costs and automate the contract-to-settlement process with visibility and insight across a global network of carriers and service providers.
Cloud deployment
Global, multimodal carrier and service provider network
Real-time transparency into competitive market prices and carrier performance
Digitalized transacting, collaboration, and shipment tracking
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Key benefits
Reduce logistics costs
Save time and money through real-time transparency of competitive market prices and multimodal shipment tracking.
Optimize utilization
Gain flexible capacity and greater agility with extended reach into a global network of multimodal carriers and logistics service providers.
Improve performance
Connect core warehouse, yard, and manufacturing processes for integration that can improve on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance and customer satisfaction.
Key features
Freight order collaboration
- Shop carriers competitively to send digital requests for quotation and freight orders through the network
- Collaborate with carriers though the network from multimodal order contracting through settlement
- Onboard once and collaborate with many on a global cloud platform
Dock appointment scheduling
- Optimize operations by enabling self-services for creating, rescheduling, and cancelling dock appointments
- Share gate check-in and checkout processes and event information among shippers and external warehouse and yard operators
- Reduce idling, product spoilage, carbon emissions, and noise pollution
Shipment execution and document exchange
- Exchange business documents such as a bill of lading
- Gain milestone transparency into shipment execution progress such as proof of pickup and proof of delivery
- Enable full lifecycle collaboration through standard and open API integration with transportation management and partner solutions
Intelligent insights
- Enhance SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration with the SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on to turn transactional network insights into data intelligence
- Leverage SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on for detection of bottlenecks and analytics across shipments, carriers, and geographies
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Technical information
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