SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration

Drive resiliency and transparency through collaborative asset definition and maintenance.
Screenshot of collaborative asset definition of a model undercarriage in SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration

Collaborate on a single version of the truth for optimal asset management

Empower operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network to achieve resiliency and transparency across the asset lifecycle.

Create a common asset data foundation among OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers. The SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration solution enables information exchange to improve asset commissioning and streamline work order processing.

  • Cloud deployment
  • One entry point for asset stakeholders
  • Asset data foundation for asset definition, commissioning, and maintenance
  • Collaborative asset management and maintenance among trading partners
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Key benefits

Maximize uptime

Center asset collaboration around a common asset definition to accelerate commissioning, maintenance, and performance tuning so operators can maximize uptime.

Improve asset data integrity and completeness

Access asset and maintenance information in one platform to improve productivity, enhance service quality, increase customer satisfaction, and reduce costs.

Enhance equipment effectiveness

Enable transparency and collaboration on equipment failures and maintenance among your trading partners to achieve optimal equipment effectiveness.

Key features

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Central asset repository

  • Central asset registry from multiple data sources and asset management systems
  • Cloud-based, flexible, modular, and scalable asset data modeling
  • Single source of truth, effective benchmarking reports, and bad actors identification
  • Integration with the SAP S/4HANA Asset Management solution
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Collaborative data handover

  • One network channel for asset data commissioning from OEMs and constructors to asset operators
  • Smooth data handover between manufacturers and asset operators using a single digital twin
  • Standardized asset data taxonomy between asset trading partners
  • Native integration with back-end maintenance execution system
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Collaborative work order

  • One portal for asset maintenance collaboration between asset operators and external contractors
  • Common work order across work order management
  • Better visibility into and control over contractor and commercial readiness
  • Work-order integrations with maintenance management systems
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Automotive industry add-on for SAP Digital Vehicle Hub

  • Unify your vehicle repository along the automotive value chain
  • Secure insights, monetize data, and create mobility scenarios
  • Enable an open partner network
  • Integration with the SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration solution
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Our customers

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Enhance collaboration with SAP Business Network

See how SAP Business Network can improve your collaborative capabilities with a singular, centralized hub for asset master data.

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Manage common work orders on a single platform

See how work order collaboration enabled by SAP Business Network can help you increase work order transparency, enhance collaboration, and improve operational efficiency.

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SAP Business Network named a leader by IDC

Read the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment.

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Technical information

This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any web browser.

Installation and setup

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Configuration

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Integration

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Data security

Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.

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Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

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Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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Support

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Frequently asked questions

FAQ

Asset management is the systematic approach to the governance, use, and maintenance of physical assets to mitigate risk and maximize effectiveness and return on investment throughout the physical asset lifecycle. Asset management extends through the phases of the asset lifecycle, including planning, procurement or acquisition, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning or disposal. Read more about enterprise asset management.

Asset collaboration on SAP Business Network is the sharing of asset data and workflow processes between an asset owner, operator, manufacturer, and service provider–spanning asset definition, commissioning, and maintenance–to help achieve optimal asset management.

SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration enables a common asset data foundation among OEMs, components suppliers, operators, and services providers. These asset ecosystem partners leverage SAP Business Network to collaborate on a single version of asset data and common processes for optimal asset management.

SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration benefits operators, OEMs, and maintenance and service providers. Asset operators can enhance asset effectiveness to accelerate commissioning and maintenance and improve performance to maximize uptime. OEMs can reduce cost, increase customer satisfaction, and enable new business models, such as equipment as a service (EaaS). Maintenance and service providers can strengthen customer relationships while reducing cost, MRO inventories, and wrench time.

Asset operators rely on SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration to extend their enterprise asset management solutions for cross-company collaboration among ecosystem partners. Collaborative asset definition with OEMs and constructors facilitates commissioning through a single source of asset data, while collaborative maintenance and service allows operators and service providers to plan and execute service work orders from a single platform.