By providing an intelligent digital environment within the supply chain, SAP Business Network allows buyers and suppliers to collaborate on an absolutely different efficiency level. Learn more in our new whitepaper!
Today, reporting and compliance become more challenging as supply chains grow more complex and suffer from disparate operations. Moreover, B2B collaboration suffers from the lack of trustworthy cooperation between suppliers, distributors, and service providers resulting in poor processes transparency and delays in data transfer.
Therefore, business leaders need reliable partnerships to centralize supplier collaboration and strengthen bonds in the business community.
A critical component of successful partnerships is planning supplier enablement. It is more than just connecting suppliers electronically to your back-office systems and developing the processes and materials to support the “enablement” of suppliers to exchange electronic business documents. Neither is it only offering the right technology and tools for all supplier volumes.
Supplier enablement involves:
But how to explain the business value, benefits, and importance of working within one digital environment? LeverX experts developed recommendations to foster collaboration between trading and supply chain partners.