Drive efficiency and resilience with streamlined carrier collaboration

Reduce logistics costs and automate the contract-to-settlement process with visibility and insight across a global network of carriers and service providers. The SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration solution connects you and your logistics partners on a safe network for optimized collaboration and insights, integrated tightly with core business processes for efficiency and resilience.

• Cloud deployment
• Global, multimodal carrier and service provider network
• Real-time transparency into competitive market prices and carrier performance
• Digitalized transacting, collaboration, and shipment tracking

Key benefits

Reduce logistics costs

Save time and money through real-time transparency of competitive market prices and multimodal shipment tracking.

Optimize utilization

Gain flexible capacity and greater agility with extended reach into a global network of multimodal carriers and logistics service providers.  

Improve performance

Connect core warehouse, yard, and manufacturing processes for integration that can improve on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance and customer satisfaction. 

Key features

Freight order collaboration

• Shop carriers competitively to send digital requests for quotation and freight orders through the network
• Collaborate with carriers though the network from multimodal order contracting through settlement
• Onboard once and collaborate with many on a global cloud platform

Dock appointment scheduling

• Optimize operations by enabling self-services for creating, rescheduling, and cancelling dock appointments
• Share gate check-in and checkout processes and event information among shippers and external warehouse and yard operators
• Reduce idling, product spoilage, carbon emissions, and noise pollution

Shipment execution and document exchange

• Exchange business documents such as a bill of lading
• Gain milestone transparency into shipment execution progress such as proof of pickup and proof of delivery
• Enable full lifecycle collaboration through standard and open API integration with transportation management and partner solutions

Intelligent insights

• Enhance SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration with the SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on to turn transactional network insights into data intelligence
• Leverage SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on for detection of bottlenecks and analytics across shipments, carriers, and geographies