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What is BN4L

The Business Network for Logistics is a digital platform that connects your entire supply chain ecosystem. It brings together suppliers, logistics providers, and your organization on one unified network, making it easier to plan, track, and optimize shipments in real time. ​

Driving Efficiency, Visibility, and On-Time Delivery
  • Improved efficiency (internal and external), less times, increased productivity.​​
  • Have better delivery service, receive delivery on-time / in full AND Predict estimated time of arrival.​​Next-level supply chain visibility.
  • Every element is more connected than ever. This leads to more resilience and collaboration at eco–system level.​

As part of the overall SAP Business network portfolio, the various offerings of Business Network For Logistics offers out of the box solutions for Carrier integration and Collaboration in a seamless manner. Being an SAP cloud-based product, it receives new feature updates on a quarterly basis. ​

Covers SAP TM in S/4 HANA based Carrier integration functionalities such as:​​​

  • Freight Tendering and Freight Confirmation.
  • ​​​Freight Invoicing and Self Billing.​​​
  • Dock Appointment Scheduling​​​External planning
  • ​​​Freight Order Tracking through fixed set of milestone events reporting.​​​​
  • Offers Sales and Purchase Order Fulfilment Tracking integrated with Shipment or Freight Order Tracking based on Milestones.​​​​
  • Offers Exception and Alert Management (Internal & External communication) – Planned versus Actual Milestone comparison.
  • ​​​Modelling of custom tracking scenarios.
  • ​​​Can integrate with SAP ECC, S/4 HANA (with SAP TM), and Non-SAP ERP and TMS systems (Through APIs)​​​​

Enhanced Freight Order Tracking through integration with Visibility Service provider Project 44 and Shippeo – Realtime GPS based Visibility/Tracking and ETA.​​​​​

Modes covered: (Separate License)​​

  • FTL (Out of the Box) ​​
  • LTL (Out of the Box)​​
  • Ocean (Out of the Box)​​​​

Optional Addon:​​​Enhanced Freight Order or Shipment Tracking through integration with Visibility Service provider Project 44 and Shippeo – Realtime GPS based Visibility/Tracking and ETA.​​​​

Modes covered:(Separate License)​​

  • FTL (Out of the Box)​​
  • LTL (Out of the Box)​​
  • Ocean (Out of the Box)
  • ​​Air (Out of the Box)​​Rail and Parcel (Project Based)​​​​

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Key contacts

Stijn Van Hoof

Stijn Van Hoof

Partner & Leader, SAP EWM & TM CoE, SAP Lead, Enterprise Technology & Performance
+ 32 2 749 59 36
Jean-Philippe Draye

Jean-Philippe Draye

Director SAP
+ 32473689210

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