SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration

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 and automate procurement transactions on a single, networked platform, improving inventory visibility, quality control, and management.

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​.

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.