SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)

Challenges of Supply Chain

With increased supply chain complexity comes opportunity for products to be lost, misdirected, stolen, counterfeited — or merely delayed. These challenges and other supply chain disruptions and inefficiencies not only cost time and money. 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 safer, fresher goods and services.

Companies need full end-to-end visibility throughout their extended supply chain network to meet these challenges. The solution is a digital, connected supply chain that offers a holistic view of real-time data across business partners, systems and processes for proactively identifying issues and making critical decisions.

About SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)

The SAP Business Network for Logistics is a global network operated by SAP connecting business partners, systems and processes to gain end-to-end visibility across the extended supply chain. It provides a single-entry point to manage logistics transactions and exchange data with key partners.

SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L) helps businesses connect their entire supply chain network, and protect their products, brands and consumers by ensuring the integrity and timely movement of their cargo.

Target Industrial Sectors

• Consumer packaged goods
• Warehousing & transportation
• Pharmaceutical and life sciences

Features of SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)

• Directly connect with your logistics partners
• Take advantage of an out-of-the-box business process collaboration
• Manage jointly logistics transactions and exchange documents and insights with your network
• Offer connectivity depending on your logistics partners’ requirements
• Integrate with your business backend systems and leverage established logistics networks
• Track in-transit good and business processes comparing planned versus actual milestones across business partners and multiple disparate systems
• Send notifications to internal and external parties and inform them about exceptions and relevant status update
• Trigger rule-based follow-up transactions
• Trace materials across the entire value chain – from raw material origin to finished product
• Share data with your supply chain network
• Notify relevant stakeholders in case of product issues
• Get global overview on all your in-transit shipment movements with alerting with the Logistics Situation Room
• Integrate with supply chain risk alerting (API)
• Analyze your supply chain performance

Benefits of SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L)

• Connected business operations
• Efficient logistics processes
• Make decisions based on real-time insights and manage by exception
• Improved efficiency through real-time automated supply chain collaboration
• Reduce costs by applying communication standards across your complete logistics network
• Reduce unplanned costs through improved visibility into in-transit and network-wide inventory

Engineering's Expertise

Engineering Industries eXcellence is a long-standing trusted SAP partner and strategic advisor for digital supply chain transformation that helps businesses connect their supply chain networks and realize full end-to-end visibility. Our industry expertise, portfolio of accelerators and extensions for SAP solutions as well as our applications, such as Movilitas.Cloud, enable businesses to future-proof operations, maintain compliance and realize new growth opportunities.

Interested in speaking to one of our experts? Contact us at info@indx.com.