Improve trading partner collaboration
Extend digital processes across supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics partners to remove data silos and execute transactions.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration
Connect planning and execution for a more resilient supply chain.
Collaborate with trading partners on one networked platform to improve direct-material planning, inventory visibility, quality management, and transaction automation.
Connected supply chain operations
Drive agility, transparency, and resilience across your supply chain.
Eliminate siloed, manual processes and collaborate more effectively with trading partners across planning, inventory, procurement, and quality management.
SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration brings procurement transactions and partner communication onto one networked platform, improving inventory visibility, quality control, and execution.
More predictable supply
Digital partner data sharing
Lower disruption and volatility
Reduced cost and inefficiency
Business impact
Build a more visible, responsive, and resilient supply chain.
Connect trading partners and critical supply chain processes so teams can anticipate issues, coordinate decisions, and protect delivery.
Drive supply chain resilience
Respond rapidly to disruption and reduce revenue loss or unforeseen costs from shortages, stoppages, stock-outs, and demand fluctuations.
Gain transparency and visibility
Use plan-driven automation, historical insight, and digital collaboration to help deliver to the right customer at the right time.
What the solution delivers
Supply Chain Collaboration features.
Coordinate planning and execution across five connected areas, with shared information and earlier visibility into emerging issues.
Forecast collaboration
- Give trading partners forecast visibility, including production-line capacity.
- Allow suppliers and contract manufacturers to adjust and commit to buyer forecasts.
- Use custom alerts to identify component commitment issues and act earlier.
Procurement collaboration
- Digitize transactions across trading partners and logistics providers.
- Send purchase orders and see order confirmations and shipping status.
- Track in-transit orders to support on-time customer deliveries.
Inventory collaboration
- See supplier-managed inventory and improve inventory management.
- Use replenishment orders or scheduling agreements to maintain optimal levels.
- Give stakeholders immediate visibility into materials needed for manufacturing.
Quality collaboration
- Share visibility into quality issues and align partners around faster resolution.
- Standardize quality collaboration and reduce manual information exchange.
- Accelerate inspections to support on-time customer delivery.
Manufacturing collaboration
- Work across multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers.
- Collect stock-on-hand data and detect strategic component disruptions sooner.
- Improve quality execution, delivery performance, and brand protection.
Connect planning with execution
Ready to improve supply chain collaboration and resilience?
Talk with a PREMIKATI practitioner about the workflows, partner enablement, and operating model needed to get lasting value from SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Supply Chain Collaboration.
Get clear answers about trading partner connectivity, shared data, disruption visibility, partner enablement, and implementation support.
What is SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration?
It is a cloud-based collaboration solution that connects buyers with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and logistics partners. Teams can share planning and execution data through coordinated digital processes instead of relying on disconnected emails and spreadsheets.
Which supply chain processes can the solution support?
The solution can support forecast, procurement, inventory, quality, and manufacturing collaboration. Organizations can phase these capabilities based on their operating priorities, supplier readiness, and integration landscape.
What information can trading partners exchange?
Depending on the enabled processes, partners can exchange forecasts, commitments, purchase orders, confirmations, shipment updates, inventory information, quality data, and manufacturing status. The exact scope should reflect the collaboration model.
How can collaboration improve disruption visibility?
Shared forecasts, supplier commitments, inventory positions, and transaction status can reveal shortages, capacity constraints, delays, or quality concerns earlier. Teams gain more time to coordinate a response before customer delivery is affected.
What is involved in enabling suppliers and other partners?
Partner enablement typically includes segmentation, outreach, connection setup, data and process validation, testing, training, and adoption support. A phased plan helps prioritize the partners and transactions with the greatest operational value.
How can PREMIKATI support a Supply Chain Collaboration initiative?
PREMIKATI can help define the collaboration model, design workflows, plan integrations, prepare data, enable trading partners, test end-to-end processes, train users, and support adoption. The approach can fit a new deployment or an existing SAP Business Network environment.