- SAP Managed Tags
Q: When is the end of the road not really the end of the road?
A: When you have someplace else to go.
In the final installment of this series, inspired by "Why choose SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace over individual visibility platforms," we'll delve into a seventh key aspect of SAP’s track and trace solution: "Tailor Your Tracking Process."
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace is best known for:
- Inbound and outbound real-time shipment tracking
- Synchronizing multiple tracking data sources, direct from carriers or freight forwarders, or through any 3rd party network
- Impact analysis, with configurable alerts and notifications, in the context of core business process tracking for Purchase, Sales, and Stock Transfer order fulfillment
But did you know SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace:
- Is highly configurable down to the field level for unique process requirements
- Has native tools to customize templates or model any process from scratch
- Can leverage the benefits of the full solution for any process, such as openness to any data source and ability to apply configurable rules for actions, alerts and notifications
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace is designed and delivered with the flexibility to adapt to practically any of the unique needs of any process in any industry. You can leverage native tools to model and track any process to benefit from the multiple facets of the solution previously described in this series.
Reason #7: Tailor Your Tracking Process
No two manufacturing or distribution companies are exactly alike. Each has its own unique processes, standards, and priorities, which are essential to their brand’s competitive edge. A one-size-fits-all approach to tracking simply won’t suffice in today’s mode of continuous innovation. Failing to capture critical nuances and specific data points essential to a proprietary process will undermine such key elements for process tracking as measurement accuracy and proactive responsiveness. But then again, swing too far into a tracking solution outside of your core landscape and the risks and costs of integration can sink any benefit from an external system.
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace meets the need for configuration and customization while maintaining SAP landscape and open data-source integration. SAP’s solution provides a range of flexible configuration options, allowing manufacturers and distributors to tailor their process tracking to their specific requirements. This includes the ability to:
- Define custom fields and statuses: You can capture specific data points relevant to your industry, product, or process, such as temperature sensitivity or batch numbers, through extensibility with other apps and data sources.
- Create custom event types and alerts: You can configure alerts to be triggered based on specific events or statuses, such as a process reaching an event milestone or exceeding a predefined threshold.
- Develop custom process flows: You can model your proprietary process, and define automated actions to be triggered based on specific events, such as automated process re-routing or initiation of a quality control check.
For example, a manufacturer specializing in high-value, temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals can configure the solution to track temperature readings throughout packaging, storage, and distribution. Or in the case of global sensor technology leader SICK AG, the solution provides real-time production tracking visibility for greater efficiency, cost savings, and process automation. In these and many more cases, manufacturers can set up alerts to notify stakeholders if an event or status deviates from an expected tolerance. And to go one step further, custom process tracking can leverage standard event-to-action capability to automatically initiate actions such as a quality control check or re-routing if needed for optimal responsiveness.
The ability to tailor process tracking is essential to any competitor in any industry where your process is essential to you brand. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace provides the flexibility and customization needed to leverage a tracking solution that aligns with your processes, standards, and priorities. Whether leveraging out-out-the-box templates or embracing a required level of customization, you can gain a deeper understanding of your business and your supply chain, make faster, more informed decisions, and ensure the safe and timely delivery of your products to your customers, with real-time, interactive process tracking. The take-away on this topic: Effective process management is not about simply tracking the process; it's about leveraging process insights to drive cost savings, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and growth.
Wait, one more point. SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace is SAP’s strategic solution for process tracking, offering a cloud solution that not only provides native integration with SAP Transportation Management, but also is the strategic successor to SAP Event Management. Please reach your SAP representative to learn more about how the capabilities from SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace can replace your SAP Event Management installation.
Okay, this marks the end of our series on "Why choose SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace over individual visibility platforms." Thank you to all who have been with this since the first post, or have picked up the journey along the way.
As from the opening of this post, this is not the end of the road. Here are even more ways to learn about SAP’s supply chain logistics solutions, logistics visibility in general, and SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace in particular.
- Webinar: Transforming Logistics with Next-Generation Carrier Collaboration at Celsa
- Inbound Logistics magazine: 10 Tips to Effective Logistics Visibility
- Product Tour: SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace
- Coming soon: Supply Chain Logistics Capability Maturity Model for self-assessment and planning
I hope you found this series helpful. Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. And can I field any questions you may have here right from here too.
Thank you,
Doug
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