Connecting the Value Chain with SAP BN4L
The Importance of End-to-End Visibility
With increased supply chain complexity comes the opportunity for products to be lost, misdirected, delayed, counterfeited or stolen. These disruptions cost not only time and money, but they also interfere with businesses’ ability to maintain a flexible supply chain that can satisfy consumers’ growing desire for convenient and almost immediate access to safe goods and services.
Industrial enterprises need end-to-end visibility throughout their extended supply chain network to meet these challenges. Engineering Industries eXcellence believes that the solution is a digital, connected supply chain that offers a holistic view of real-time data across business functions for proactive identification of issues and critical decision-making. In order to help our customers achieve this, our specialists leverage the leading SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L) technology offering.
SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)
The SAP Business Network for Logistics is a global network operated by SAP that connects business partners, systems and processes to gain end-to-end visibility across the extended supply chain. Within a single source of digital truth, stakeholders can manage logistics transactions and exchange data with key partners. SAP BN4L offers capabilities across four key facets:
Freight Collaboration
- Connect directly with your logistics partners
- Leverage an out-of-the box business process collaboration
- Manage joint logistics transactions and exchange documents and insights with your network
- Offer connectivity to partners and stakeholders across the enterprise
- Integrate business backend systems and leverage established logistics networks
Global Track and Trace
- Track in-transit goods and business processes comparing planned versus actual milestones
- Connect with visibility providers to gain real-time tracking data such as geolocation and updated estimated delivery dates
- Notify stakeholders of exceptions and status updates
- Trigger follow-up actions based on defined rules
Material Traceability
- Improve end-to-end supply chain visibility and efficiency
- Share data with the entire supply chain network
- Notify relevant stakeholders in case of product issues
Intelligent Insights
- Gain global overview on all in-transit shipment movements with alerting through the Logistics Situation Room
- Integrate supply chain risk alerting through Application Programming Interface (API)
- Improve supply chain performance with intelligent analytics
Key Benefits
Connected Business Operations: Easily onboard your supply chain partners and work together with them on a secure network that integrates with your business processes.
Efficient Logistics Processes: Make decisions based on real-time insights and manage by exception. Improve efficiency by 50%+ through real-time automated supply chain collaboration.
Integrated Value Chains Lower Expenses: Reduce costs by applying communication standards across your complete logistics network. Reduce unplanned costs by 20% through improved visibility into in-transit and network-wide inventory.
The SAP Business Network for Logistics facilitates collaboration and information sharing with business partners along the entire supply chain. Stakeholders can:
- Digitally connect with logistic partners and exchange freight documents
- Manage multi-modal logistics transports by exception based on real-time tracking data
- Analyze supply chain performance based on custom-defined KPIs
- Share batch information and establish batch genealogy across multi-level supplier networks to increase customer trust
Engineering’s Advantage
Engineering Industries eXcellence is a global division of the Engineering Group. We specialize in the development, integration and implementation of holistic digital solutions covering the end-to-end lifecycle and supply chain of all industrial products and processes. With a focus on enabling the advancement of the manufacturing and transportation sectors, our team delivers cutting-edge technology solutions that transform the way industrial leaders think about, design, build and deliver their products. And as a recognized and long-standing global SAP partner and strategic advisor, our team of specialists has been delivering services and solutions in supply chain transformation for over two decades. Our industry expertise, portfolio of accelerators for SAP solutions and global resources enable businesses to future-proof operations, maintain compliance and realize new growth opportunities.
- #1 global market leader for SAP Digital Supply Chain by sheer number of projects, technical portfolio knowledge and implementation coverage
- Global certified team of 200+technical specialists in SAP Digital Supply Chain solutions
- Solutions in 50+ countries for our industry-leading customers across industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, agribusiness, government, automotive and aerospace
- Global service and delivery capabilities with 18 Regional SAP hubs of competence across North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
- 610+ (and counting) digital transformation projects for leading organizations worldwide with SAP technology
