SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
Driving agility, transparency, and resiliency across your supply chain
Eliminate siloed, manual processes across your supply chain and better collaborate with trading partners on planning, inventory, and quality management processes.
The SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration solution enables you to collaborate on and automate procurement transactions on a single networked platform, improving inventory visibility, quality control, and management.
Improved predictability and quality of supply
Ability to share insights and data digitally with trading partners
Lower supply chain disruption, risk, and demand volatility
Reduced cost and inefficiency across supply chain functions
Deploy with SAP NS2's secure cloud model
Protect your data and mitigate risk with additional securitycontrols.
Key benefits
Improve trading partner collaboration
Extend your processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to remove data silos, exchange documents digitally, and execute transactions.
Drive supply chain resiliency
Respond rapidly to disruption to prevent revenue loss and unforeseen costs due to stock-outs, materials shortages, work stoppages, and demand fluctuations.
Gain transparency and visibility
Leverage plan-driven process automation, historical insights, and digitalized collaboration to help ensure delivery to the right customer at the right time.
Key features
Forecast collaboration
- Provide trading partners with forecast visibility, including production line capacity
- Allow suppliers and contract manufacturers to adjust and commit to forecasts sent by buyers
- Receive custom alerts that inform you about component commitments, enabling you to take mitigating actions earlier
Procurement collaboration
- Streamline procurement transactions with digital processes that extend to trading partners and logistics providers
- Send digital purchase orders over the network and gain visibility of order confirmation and shipping
- Track orders in transit so you can achieve on-time customer deliveries
Inventory collaboration
- Gain visibility into supplier-managed inventory for improved inventory management
- Use replenishment orders or scheduling agreements to maintain optimal inventory levels
- Share data to provide stakeholders with instant access to the status of materials needed for manufacturing
Quality collaboration
- Gain visibility into quality issues and complaints while aligning with trading partners to drive quick resolution
- Eliminate manual information exchange and standardize quality collaboration with your trading partners
- Accelerate quality inspections to increase on-time customer deliveries
Manufacturing collaboration
- Equip your organization to work with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers
- Enable suppliers to report stock-on-hand inventory so you can manage strategic components and proactively detect supply disruptions
- Accelerate quality inspections to increase on-time customer deliveries and protect brand reputation
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Technical and security information
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Business process security
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Risk and threat mitigation
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Cloud delivery options
Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.
SAP Business Network deployed through SAP NS2’s secure cloud model
Gain supply chain and procurement process support while operating in an environment dedicated to security, data access, residency, and sovereignty.
Collaborate with trading partners, strengthen operations, and mitigate risk with additional security compliance
By deploying SAP Business Network through SAP NS2's secure cloud model, you can protect your sensitive information with additional security controls to mitigate internal and external risk.
Process and transmit data confidently through the SAP NS2 security model
Reduce TCO and increase time to value through automated solution deployment and security management
Ensure regional security standards are enforced across your trading partner network
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