SAP Business Network Features

Analyzes aggregated supply chain and shipping data to gain predictive insight

Monitors and tracks the physical status of goods and materials

Aggregates and centralizes data regarding product movement, materials management, and financial information

Generates reports that identify KPIs and other relevant metrics

Deliver dashboards that display KPIs and live data.

Analyze performance for individual assets, by category or location.

Predict future trends and risks that may impact asset performance.

Provides comprehensive visibility and oversight into supply chain operations

Provides inventory scheduling and inventory management functionalities

Provides employee scheduling and employee management functionalities

Automates the tracking and recording of activities within the entire supply chain lifecycle

Track products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Allow users to re-route and reschedule shipments based on standard or custom criteria.

Optimize inventory to improve fulfillment and increase customer satisfaction.

Manage multiple delivery modes such as truckload, less than truckload, rail, parcel, and ocean.

Identify the financial impact of deliveries based on costs and revenues.

Provide performance metrics such as delivery performance, on-time arrival performance, and compliance.

Use supply chain data to identify trends and their impact on performance.

Manage details about carriers such as the types of services they offer and pricing.

Provide criteria to evaluate carriers such as on-time delivery or quality of service.

Monitor carrier performance using historical data.

Define multiple types of freight such as air, road, or sea.

Track pricing per freight mode and carrier.

Choose the optimal freight mode based on price and customer requirements.

Deliver an online portal where customers can monitor shipments.

Create and manage personalized quotes for freight services.

Provide customers with transportation documents required for shipping.

Monitor asset use across multiple locations and keep history.

Track asset reliability data such as downtime or idle time.

Identify various types of risks such as non-compliance or safety violations.

Ability to track components across the supply chain to identify the causes of non-compliance.

Provide a search engine to find items and where they are in the supply chain.

Ability to identify and document exceptions for perishable goods and temperature-controlled environments.

Ability to track inbound products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Ability to track and search for the location of shipments by PO or SKU

Ability to use historical tracking data and machine learning in order to accurately predict ETAs

Ability to establish geofences to determine precise and accurate arrivals

Access up to date rates from carriers, including spot market

Ability to request a bid from multiple carriers and directly book shipments

Ability to manage and automate invoices

Ability to utilize paperless documents to automate reconciliation process including bills of lading, proofs of delivery, and weight certificates

Ability to access full coverage of required geographies

Ability to efficiently onboard new carriers during network implementation

Ability to access data enrichment, sources, & normalization to serve up actionable and clean data

Provide support for multiple languages

Provide rule-based notifications to empower real-time collaboration at key milestones and quickly resolve issues.

Streamlines the process of onboarding new suppliers to a network

Provides visibility into the movement of goods/products

Enables users to acquire and evaluate quotes for services

Provides an overview of supplier performance and actions to take to mitigate risks

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives