Logistics organizations must ensure that products are delivered in the best condition, in the quickest time, and at the cheapest rate possible. To achieve this, the entire logistics operations — from sales order management to contracting, execution, and settlement — must be streamlined and simplified. Proactive risk mitigation is also crucial. Business users should be able to track and trace all assets and processes in real-time and flexibly change parameters should events not go as planned.
To meet these collective requirements, logistics organizations must be able to effectively orchestrate and harmonize logistics resources, processes, and partners.
By creating digital connections across the logistics value chain and removing manual processes, supply chain organizations will be able to improve trust and collaboration, get real-time transparency, and easily obtain intelligent insights into internal and external events.
Simplify Logistics Processes
Using SAP Logistics Business Network (LBN)
Freight Collaboration
SAP LBN Freight Collaboration option empowers logistics organizations to digitally govern the end-to-end freight order lifecycle and effectively manage appointments. It allows shippers to seamlessly collaborate with third-party logistics providers using “contractless” transactions and real-time connectivity and visibility.
Material Traceability
SAP LBN Material Traceability option digitally connects supply chains to improve efficiency, transparency, and traceability. It provides logistics organizations with a detailed product genealogy, allowing them to easily trace material provenance and obtain end-to-end multi-ingredient traceability. It helps streamline recalls through cross-company alerting for product issues.
Global Track & Trace
SAP LBN Global Track and Trace option is a cloud-service solution that allows business users to obtain real-time transparency and query tracked processes. It graphically visualizes details of ERP processes, milestones, and related locations for easy tracing and tracking of assets and events. It automatically reports planned and unplanned events, empowering logistics organizations to proactively mitigate risks and prevent costly delays.
Intelligent Insights
SAP LBN Intelligent Insights option is a data visualization and reporting platform that provides real-time insights of a supply chain execution and graphic visualization of supply chain events. It empowers logistics organizations to easily turn data and insights into meaningful stories to help them make informed decisions.