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SAP Business Network for Logistics 2503 Release – What’s New?

CorinnaKramer
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Product and Topic Expert
‎2025 Mar 20 10:27 AM
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This blog will give you an overview of our recent release in SAP Business Network for Logistics. It is intended for shippers and solution owners, carriers, and data providers as well as sales and presales colleagues who already have a detailed understanding of SAP Business Network for Logistics. 

There are a number of exciting features out of which the following are relevant for carriers and data contributors:

  • Cross solutions: Access multiple tenants with one user account
  • Cross solutions: Reminder: Sunset of SAP BTP, Neo environment and switch to SAP BTP, Multi-Cloud environment
  • SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration: Self Book Dock Appointments app: reference document now displayed as a number
  • SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration: Manage Disputes app: view additional information for each charge
  • SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace: Provider API for Order Events (GTT): supporting time zone conversion for local time without UTC offset
  • SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace: Create Shipment Advice app: app has been sunset

But there are also great new features for shippers and solution owners such as:

  • SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace: Standard extractor codes delivered on SAP S/4HANA (supporting TM freight documents freight order, freight booking and freight unit) and
  • SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on: delete activated customized models in 'Manage Analytic Models' app 

Cross SAP Business Network for Logistics

Access multiple tenants with one user account

This feature has been a request from many of you. Carriers and data contributors can now use one user account (email address) to sign in to multiple tenants on the network. When signing in with a user account that is related to multiple tenants, you can switch between them from the ‘Switch Accounts’ icon in the upper-right corner.

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Reminder: Sunset of SAP BTP, Neo environment and switch to SAP BTP, Multi-Cloud environment

SAP BTP, Neo environment will be deprecated on December 31st, 2025. The official support for the current integration platform running on Neo environment will be stopped on May 16th, 2025.

When you log into the 'Manage Message Log', you will now get a warning message. The link will direct you the migration guides, which are also linked below.

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Please switch to the new integration platform on SAP BTP, Multi-Cloud environment!

A SAP blog post with more information is available here:
Announcement: New integration platform in SAP Business Network for Logistics

And there are also migration guides available:

Note: Data federation capabilities are supported on CPI Multi-Cloud (CF) only.

 

SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration

Dock Appointment Scheduling: reference documents now displayed as a number

The following changes were made in the carrier’s ‘Self-Book Dock Appointments’ app:

  • On the ‘Ready for Booking’ tab, a new ‘Reference Documents’ column was inserted.
  • On the ‘Booked Appointments’ tab in the ‘Reference Documents’ column, the list of reference documents was replaced by a number. When you choose the number, you can view the type and ID of each reference document.
  • As to navigate to the freight order, you now have to choose the freight order in the ‘Freight Order’ column (which used to be displayed in the ‘Reference Document’ column).

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Similar changes were made in the shipper’s ‘Manage Dock Appointments’ app:

  • On the ‘Ready for Booking’ tab, the ‘All Reference Documents’ column was renamed to ‘Reference Documents’ and the list of reference documents was replaced by a number.
  • On the ‘Booked Appointments’ tab in the Reference Documents column, the list of reference documents was replaced by a number. When you choose the number, you can view the type and ID of each reference document.

Settlement: view additional information for each charge

In the ‘Manage Disputes’ app, in the ‘Details’ page, under the tab ‘Charges’, shippers and carriers can now view additional information for each charge.

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 Note: This feature will only come into effect for documents that were created AFTER the feature was released.

 

 SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace

Standard extractor codes delivered on SAP S/4HANA (now supporting TM freight documents freight order, freight booking and freight unit)

​The extractor codes, provided by SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace, are now delivered as part of standard codes in SAP S/4HANA (from 2023, FPS03). They are ready to use and allow you to extract basic information in a logistical business document from SAP S/4HANA and send them to the GTT system for tracking.

​Currently, the following TM freight documents are supported for extraction:

  • Freight Order
  • Freight Booking
  • Freight Unit

You can use the Track Shipments app to monitor their fulfillment.

Please note this doesn't affect your current implementation using sample extractor codes.

​You can find more information here:

‘Manage Message Logs’: display and download payload from the worklist

Upon request in customer influence portal, on the worklist page of the ‘Manage Message Logs’ application, a payload column has been added to view and download the message payload.

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Provider API for Order Events (GTT): supporting time zone conversion for local time without UTC offset

Also upon customer request, carriers and data providers can now provide local time without UTC offsets in the 'Provider API for Order Event (GTT)'. In this case, you must provide corresponding event time zones as defined in IANA time zone database, the value will be automatically converted to UTC time in the system.

Location data added to email rule placeholders

When defining an email rule in the ‘Manage Models’ app, you can specify to populate the user-defined placeholder using the ‘location alternative key’. You can choose to show the information either as:

  • Text: the location alternative key will be shown in the generated email.
  • Location: you can further choose the location details from the drop-down list, such as "Email Address". As a result, the email address will be shown in the generated email.

For more, see Define the Rule on the Configuration UI.

IATA and UN/LOCODE added to core model, so it can now be saved when reporting an event

The following fields were added to the core model:

  • UN/LOCODE
  • IATA Code

When you provide this information when reporting events, it can now be saved with the event. In case the location isn’t maintained in the master data, you can still know where the next event is estimated to take place.

Public track shipments page: hide location details for certain location types

On the public track shipments page, we have reduced the location information that is shown for ‘vendors’, ‘suppliers’, ‘business partners’ and ‘customers’ to street name, city and country.

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Track Shipments app: new role for data export

As of June 21, 2025, the following role template "AppStandardTrackShipmentsExportTemplate" is required to export data from the worklist. You must add it to your role collection. Otherwise, on, you won't see the export icon on the ‘Shipments Worklist’.

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All fulfillment tracking apps: tiles that relate to dynamic time ranges will not display counts

If you specify a dynamic date or date range for search, such as “Last Week”, and save the result as a tile, the count won't be displayed on the tile to avoid inaccuracies.

For more about role templates, see Available Roles for Solution Owners.

All Fulfillment Tracking apps: location address displayed on the header of detail pages

On the header of ‘Detail’ pages, you can now see the addresses under their location descriptions.

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Create Shipment Advice app: app has been sunset

As announced on September 21, 2024, the ‘Create Shipment Advice’ app has been sunset. It is no longer available on SAP Fiori Launchpad.

 

SAP Business Network, intelligent insights add-on

Manage Analytic Models: delete activated customized models

You can now delete an activated customized model yourself if you no longer need it. As a result, this model will disappear from the model list on the list page. In the ‘Manage Analytic Models’ app, it will no longer be available within Customized Models node either.

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Please note that the stories that consume the model might not work properly.

 

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The above summarizes the key innovations for 2503. We hope you enjoy the new capabilities. Thanks for reading the blog post and stay tuned! 

A full overview of the 2503 release can be found under the following link.

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