SAP Business Network Material Traceability

Build trust through product genealogy and transparency across your value chain.
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Extend supply chain transparency for sustainability and safety

Capture complete material provenance from raw material to finished product to enhance safety, sustainability, and customer loyalty.

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Whether tracing batch or serial numbers across your value chain, you can improve efficiency, enhance trust, and improve sustainability by extending supply chain transparency with the SAP Business Network Material Traceability solution.

  • Cloud deployment

  • Comprehensive, multitier product traceability

  • Precise recalls and alerts through the network

  • Sustainability metrics across the supply chain

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Key benefits

Protect your brand

Instill trust among customers and the market, support compliance, and mitigate risk by demonstrating data-driven stewardship of your product and your brand.

Streamline recalls

Automate the submission and receipt of recalls and alerts for multi-ingredient products and complex bills of materials up- and downstream in your value chain.

Measure sustainability

Drive compliance and meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals with an accurate measure of multitier raw material and subcomponent properties.

Key features

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Multi-ingredient and multicomponent traceability

  • Capture product provenance and properties transparently across your multitier supply chain
  • Combine genealogy of batch and serialized products for more comprehensive product stewardship
  • Integrate smoothly with SAP and third-party sources across network trading partners
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Real-time dynamic visualization

  • Explore the provenance and bidirectional flow of products across companies through a dynamic visual display
  • Analyze batches or serialized products by extensible properties and attributes
  • Extend analytics and reporting through connected APIs and use the intelligence across your organization

Precision alerts through the network

  • Streamline safety recalls and tracebacks through in-network, bidirectional, real-time alerts
  • Reduce the cost and time of recalls to improve safety and brand loyalty
  • Demonstrate compliance efficiently and build brand loyalty deeply through transparent network collaboration with trading partners

Pricing

SAP Business Network Material Traceability

  • In blocks of 10000 Documents per year

  • Contract duration between 12 and 36 Month

  • Auto-Renewal

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Features:

  • Includes:

    • Network owner license:
      • One productive owner tenant of SAP Business Network Material Traceability.
      • One test owner tenant of SAP Business Network Material Traceability.
      • One test participant tenant of SAP Business Network Material Traceability.
    • Network participant license:
      • One productive participant tenant of SAP Business Network Material Traceability.
      • One test participant tenant of SAP Business Network Material Traceability.

  • Metric:

    • The subscription is based on documents representing the number of “events” managed within the solution during a one-year period.
    • Events are movements of goods, traced throughout the extended supply chain. Goods receipt, issue, or production receipts are documents representing events.

  • Pricing structure and more contract duration details are available on request.

Resources

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Boost supply chain resilience and brand protection

Connect with your trading partners across the logistics ecosystem to collaborate and exchange insights more efficiently.

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Technical and security 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Material traceability is the process of ensuring that the raw materials or components of a product have a record of origin, production, and destination or consumption to support traceback or recall analysis after receipt, production, or distribution. Material traceability is part of supply chain analytics and plays a critical role in quality, manufacturing and planning, legal and compliance, brand management, and sustainability functions, among others.

Material traceability enables the transparency needed for supply chain accountability to support safety, quality, compliance, and brand integrity. Accurate and efficient material or product traceability is essential in food and beverage, agriculture, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, and regulated industries, among others.

Material traceability origin and product attribute data can come from suppliers at every level of a supply chain, which meets a manufacturer's or brand owner's requirements and objectives. Critical material and product traceability data can also come from the manufacturer and its distribution and retail partners, as well as customers and consumers, for full end-to-end traceability.

Material traceability enables faster and more accurate recalls and tracebacks when quality or safety issues arise. Manufactures and brand owners are able to meet compliance and brand integrity requirements more efficiently and demonstrate product stewardship and authenticity more accurately. The benefits of material traceability enhance the effectiveness of quality, compliance sustainability, and supply chain analytics functions.

SAP Business Network Material Traceability captures event and attribute data for batch or serialized products from trading partners, enabling bidirectional tracing through a graphical visualization showing the digital trail of inputs and outputs. The solution enables precise, efficient recalls and tracebacks, along with alerts, extensible attributes for sustainability or other product composition analysis, and native reporting that can be extended and integrated through APIs.