Infuse transparency, resilience, and sustainability

into your supply chain with SAP Business Network

Tony Harris, SVP, Marketing and Solutions, SAP Business Network
Eamon Ida, Sr. Director, Solution Marketing, SAP Business Network

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Sending a Purchase Order (PO) from ANY ERP can be challenging
Emailing the PO as an attachment is the most common method. Or calling the supplier and quoting the details!
Buyer

Guided Buying

What if….
▪ POs Automatically Sent to Supplier
SAP Business
Network Suppliers ▪ Invoices Automatically Input to ERP
▪ Supplier Enablement Included
SAP S/4HANA
SAP ERP ▪ No Supplier Fees Required

Any ERP

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Now imagine, how do companies manage these other transactions ( & more)
with suppliers without a Network?
You as Buyer Your Suppliers

Forecast collaboration* Share forecast Forecast commit

Provide manufacturing and
External manufacturing visibility
inventory status
Plan and Provide and execute against shipment
forecast Supplier managed inventory Share demand, inventory, and min/max levels plan with scheduling agreement or
replenishment order
Confirm order and provide
Purchase order collaboration * Place, inquire, and return order
advanced shipment notification

Vendor consignment Report consumption of consigned stock Receive consumption notice

Provide rolling delivery schedule w/ different Confirm and ship against firmed
Scheduling agreement release
firming levels (released) schedule lines
Place order with components Notify buyer of components’ receipt
Subcontract/ contract manufacturing Provide notification of components’ shipment Provide component consumption
Buy and Provide component inventory and order visibility
Invoice
Place stock transport order to move and receive Notify buyer of goods receipt or
Stock transport order collaboration
stock between plants Stock movement
Provide self-bill/ERS invoice based on GR
Self-billing / ERS invoicing Receive and Reconcile
Provide payment notification
Provide invoice processing status and
Vendor invoice collaboration payment notification Provide invoice based on PO/ASN

Quality notifications Communicate and respond to quality notification Request and respond to quality notification
Quality inspections Request test results, COC, COA Submit test results, COC, COA
Quality Quality reviews Collaborate and share quality documents Collaborate and share quality documents

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And yet businesses continue to rely on costly and complex point-to-point
connections with their trading partners

EDI, E-mail, Phone, FAX, Portals, Paper

Complicated Point-to-Point Integration
Buyer, Shipper, Asset Operator Trading Partners ▪ Processes customized per trading partner
▪ Not scalable across clients
▪ Limited visibility
▪ Limited process coverage
▪ No aggregated data content
▪ Low adoption rate, low value, high cost as suppliers
mature

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Where does SAP Business Network Fit?
SAP Business Network connects your company applications and your trading
partners, extending processes beyond the 4 walls of your organization
Core Capabilities
Your Company ERP, Supply Buy • Network-enabling ERP and other
Chain & Procurement operational systems
Supply Chain Operate & Maintain
Solutions
Finance • Supporting Multi-Tiered Value
Multi-Enterprise Processes

Chains

Trading Partner Directory Connectivity Hub • Covering multiple business

processes
SAP Business Network Analytics Business Rules

Value Added Solutions Portal UX • Direct integration and Portal

experience

• Business rules-driven Intelligent

Your Trading Partner Network Other Networks (e.g.
orchestration
Industry Specific)
Suppliers Carriers Manufacturers
Automotive Pharma • Additional capabilities provided
Service Providers Customers Asset Operators by Value Added Solutions
ecosystem

Value Chain (Source, Buy, Manufacture, Deliver, Maintain)

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 Banks 2nd-Tier
Suppliers

Credit 2nd-Tier
Providers Indirect Suppliers
& Direct
Financial Materials
Institutions Suppliers

Maintenance Assets Today’s enterprise-centric

Service &
Contingent
Workforce
Manufacturing
Partners
systems restrict visibility
Engineers
Providers
My Company Packaging
Suppliers
& collaboration

Distributors Logistics
Providers

Customers Carriers

Retailers Carriers

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Across your supply chain, SAP Business Network can help…

Level-up supplier Execute with Drive supply Promote

collaboration Transparency chain resiliency Sustainability
Connect with all your Share critical information & address risk Trace product genealogy
suppliers, regardless of type between your company and manage suppliers
Identify and respond
or size with a flexible and and your trading partners to against human rights and
to risks in your supply
scalable network improve forecasting, track other ESG metrics
chain in tight coordination
KPIs, and assure supply
with suppliers

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 Broad process coverage with SAP Business Network

Procurement Supply Chain Integration

Collaboration Collaboration Native integration with
S/4HANA / ECC

Smart
120+ Business
Rules
SAP Business
Network
Free
To join & transact on
Standard Supplier account

Supply Chain
Expandable to 50+ supply
Logistics Asset Management
chain transactions
Collaboration Collaboration

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Procurement

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Digitizing Procurement and Supplier Collaboration

You as Buyer Your Suppliers

Confirm order and provide

Purchase order collaboration Place, inquire, and receive order
advanced shipment notification
Provide self-bill/ERS invoice based on GR
Self-billing / ERS invoicing Receive and Reconcile
Provide payment notification

Buy and Provide invoice processing status and

Provide invoice based on PO/ASN
Vendor invoice collaboration payment notification
Invoice

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SAP Business Network for Procurement
Gain efficiencies in your procurement processes, improve supply
assurance, and achieve business process and regulatory compliance
Customer success

Automate your processes Sasol

Gain process efficiencies with automation and
standardized workflows
95%
Of all supplier payments made on time
for suppliers on SAP Business Network

Achieve procurement transparency

Improve spend visibility and supplier management Air Canada

33%
Reduction (in one quarter) in average
processing time of non-PO invoices
Take the complexity out of compliance
Achieve regulatory and process compliance with configurable
business rules and network validation

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Supply Chain

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Unlock the value from SAP IBP and SAP Business Network

Buyer
What if….
▪ IBP Forecasts Automatically Sent to Suppliers

SAP Business
▪ Forecast Commits automatically sent back to buyer
Network Suppliers system
SAP IBP
▪ Supplier Publishes Stock On Hand and Buyer
automatically receives Supplier Inventory data
▪ Supplier Enablement Included
▪ No Supplier Fees Required

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SAP Business Network for Supply Chain Business Outcomes

4-12% 9-25% 1-3%

Lower days inventory Lower FTE cost Lower logistics cost
8-23%
Lower revenue loss
outstanding (DIO) due to stock-outs

Inventory Levels Supply Chain Disruptions Stock-outs Automation and

▪ Real-time information ▪ Reduce latency and lead ▪ Reduce production
Digital Transactions
processing times change-over due to ▪ Track quality
material shortages characteristics and
▪ Transparency of ▪ Visibility and control of
compliance
forecasts, supply Tier 2 supplier cost, ▪ Reduce expedited
availability, orders, inventory, material flow transport costs ▪ Improve document
shipments, quality, processing efficiency
▪ Decrease operations
and goods receipt and effectiveness
stoppages due to lack of
materials or components

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Logistics

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 SAP Business Network for Logistics
Integration by design

OEM / Shipper Freight collaboration ▪ LE-TRA

▪ Basic / advanced TM
▪ Yard logistics

Private ▪ Warehouse management

Cloud SAP Business Trading
Network Global track and trace ▪ Sales/purchase order
HANA SAP S/4HANA Partners
SAP ERP ▪ Delivery
Enterprise
Cloud ▪ LE-TRA
onPremise ▪ Basic / advanced TM

Any ERP Material Traceability ▪ Batch management

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SAP Business Network for Logistics
Gain supply chain resiliency and efficiency by connecting your
key logistics stakeholders for seamless collaboration
Customer success
Streamline freight collaboration
Connect with all your logistics service providers, regardless of type Döhler
or size, with a flexible and scalable network that allows you to exchange
all relevant business data and discover new trading partners and communities EFFICIENCY
Increase efficiency through
automated inter-company
collaboration and insights
Provide insight-to-action for goods in-transit
Track shipments enriched by real-time visibility, sustainability, and risk data,
and evaluate the impact of deviations from the plan for order fulfillment
Bumble Bee Seafoods

SUSTAINABILITY
Create a chain of trust for product genealogy Facilitate a market premium
Achieve high levels of consumer confidence through transparency and for fair-trade
commitment to quality products while ensuring sustainability
and compliance to industry standards and regulations

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Asset Management

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Asset Management Challenges

CHANGING NO COMMON LACK OF SILOS ACROSS

ROLES ASSET DEFINITION READINESS SUPPLY CHAIN
The increasing The lack of A lack of complete and Silos across the supply
complexity of products standardization and consumable asset chain and the enterprise
and services is common asset definitions information when buying increase operational costs
resulting in evolving leads to inefficient and and using equipment, and downtime, and
roles of manufacturer, inconsistent collaboration undermines informed reduce service levels
operator, and service across business decision making
providers partners

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SAP Business Network Customer success
for Asset Management
KAESER KOMPRESSOREN SE
Gain efficiency, reliability, and asset visibility through
collaboration to deliver what your business needs and ONE
ensure business continuity and growth Data source for engineers, suppliers,
service teams, and technicians

Establish and hand over a digital

KUKA
replica
Build entirely new data-driven business models based
on digital representations of your equipment
REDUCED
IT costs due to the cloud-based SAP
Asset Manager mobile app
Enable a collaborative asset network
Enable a collaborative network for sharing asset definitions,
maintenance collaboration and performance analytics with
manufacturers, operators, and service providers Bitzer

Gain an agile approach to meeting

SATISFACTION
Increased among business partners
customer needs who now have an innovative means to
Develop a digital asset network that leads to outstanding help them digitalize their businesses
customer focus and new business models
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RISE with SAP includes collaboration with Trading Partners on SAP
Business Network
Components of the RISE
with SAP offering
SAP Business Network
Starter Pack*
▪ Process Discovery report, part of the
business process intelligence portfolio
from SAP Business Network for Procurement:
• Included: 2,000 documents, 1 ERP
▪ Custom Code Migration app, SAP • Invoice Status Portal for all suppliers
Readiness Check tool, SAP Learning Hub
Business Network for Asset Management:
▪ SAP S/4HANA with deployment model of • Included: 200 equipment units,
choice (public or private) 2 connections, and 10 partner portal invitees
Business Network for Logistics:
▪ Cloud credits available through CPEA for • Included: 1,000 documents and either (a) 1
SAP Business Technology Platform Logistics Service Provider and one digital
forwarder or (b) 2 Logistics Service Providers
▪ SAP Business Network Starter Pack
*NetworkStarter Pack Accelerator packages are delivered provided
▪ On infrastructure provider of choice customers do not already have the same already licensed

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Broad process coverage with SAP Business Network

Procurement Supply Chain

Collaboration Collaboration
Breakout Sessions
Breakout session 1 - Ensure Accurate
Supply Planning and Reliable Fulfilment
with Forecast and Logistics Collaboration

Breakout session 2 - Optimize Inventory

Efficiency using Consignment and Supplier
Managed Inventory
SAP Business
Network Breakout session 3 - Drive Increased
External Manufacturing Success using
Networked Multi-tier PO Collaboration and
Visibility

Breakout session 4 - Driving Procurement

efficiency through Digitization

Logistics Asset Management

Collaboration Collaboration

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Contact information:
Tony Harris Eamon Ida
SVP, Marketing & Solutions, SAP Business Network Sr. Director, Solution Marketing, SAP Business Network
Tony.harris@sap.com Eamon.ida@sap.com

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