Synchronize Planning and Execution Across Your Extended Supply Chain
In today’s global, nonlinear, and distributed economy, the power to transform your supply chain from a disconnected to a collaborative, digitally connected supply network can give you the power to sense and respond to demand changes quickly. You gain greater flexibility and visibility to reduce inventory buffers while increasing service levels and on-time shipments.
Improve Extended Trading Partner Collaboration
Extend your processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to remove data silos, exchange documents digitally, and execute transactions.
Drive a More Resilient and Flexible Supply Chain
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 Increased Visibility
Leverage plan-driven process automation, historical insights, and digitalised collaboration to help ensure delivery to the right customer at the right time.
Introducing the SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
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.
Forecast Collaboration
To meet the needs of dynamic markets, you must respond quickly to changing circumstances. Work together with trading partners in real time across your plan-to-deliver processes.
- 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
Have a single place to view and respond to purchase orders. The solution provides a workbench from which both you and your supplier can view the status of all purchase orders.
- 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
Suppliers gain visibility into buyers’ current inventory and use it to speed response times, increase fill rates, optimize buyer inventory levels, and reduce excess safety stocks.
- 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
Sharing timely quality information, such as inspection results, deviations on components, and work-in-process updates, facilitates quality alignment.
- Gain visibility into quality issues and complaints while aligning with trading partners to drive quick resolution
- Eliminate manual information exchange and standardise quality collaboration with your trading partners
- Accelerate quality inspections to increase on-time customer deliveries
Manufacturing Collaboration
- Equip your organisation 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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