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SAP Logistics Business Network

Connect your supply chain partners on one collaboration platform with global track and trace capabilities
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SAP Logistics Business Network (SAP LBN) is a solution designed to facilitate collaboration between the participants along logistics flows. SAP Logistics Business Network includes functions such as freight quotation, freight order, vendor invoicing, and accepting or rejecting a proposal, among others. It focuses on the warehousing, shipping, and receiving materials parts of the supply chain.

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Why SAP LBN?

  • Best-in-class functionality: a comprehensive collaboration platform bringing your business together with your partners and suppliers

  • Global tracking and tracing capabilities as a central platform – from the supplier to the end customer

  • Collaboration platform for participants along logistics flows to achieve a single source of data for global visibility and synergies along the supply chain

  • Real-time visibility: reporting capabilities provide an overview of the supply chain

  • Customizable: can be tailored to meet your specific needs

  • Extensibility and integration: highly integrated with SAP TM and SAP S/4HANA. LBN can also be extended with SAP Add-ons and customer-specific functionality

SAP LBN Features

The major features of SAP LBN provide collaboration and tracking capabilities and include:

  • Freight Collaboration – Connect with your network of logistics partners on the SAP platform to move your goods along the supply chain
  • Global Track and Trace – Know where your goods are and make decisions with end-to-end visibility while goods are in transit
  • Material Traceability – From raw material to finished product, the tracking of components and materials shows you where lots/batches, serial numbers and components are along your supply chain flow. This lets you protect your customers with accurate recall processes and design a sustainable supply chain with information about the sources of your materials with this multi-tier tracing capability.
  • Intelligent Insights – Make quick and effective decisions with real-time data. Data visualizations help you gain efficiency in your supply chain execution.

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Your advantages

Cross-border collaboration unlocks a competitive advantage. SAP Business Network for Logistics (BN4L) gives you a platform to connect with supply chain partners. Achieve the benefits of collaboration:

  • Partner integration

    4flow brings the SAP expertise to integrate your network of partners and create efficiencies in the transportation network – from supplier to end customer.
  • Risk mitigation

    Reduce risk and make proactive decisions using a single source of real-time data in SAP Logistics Business Network. 4flow assists you in designing decision processes to balance costs with customer service and satisfaction levels.
  • Information transparency

    Deliver on the commitments you give your customers, whether regarding ETAs, on-time shipments, customer safety or responsiveness to disruptions, and keep your customers informed with SAP Logistics Business Network.

Deployment approaches

SAP Digital Supply Chain applications such as SAP LBN can be deployed based on your business and technical requirements. Together, we will analyze your goals and design the best deployment approach.

The following deployment possibilities exist:

  • Private cloud via hyperscaler
  • Public cloud via hyperscaler
  • Private and public SAP Cloud

Partnership with SAP

4flow is an SAP Silver Partner and has SAP Recognized Expertise in the area of supply chain planning and logistics.

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