In industries where product safety and quality are paramount, the ability to trace products across the entire supply chain is critical.
SAP Global Batch Traceability (SAP GBT) provides a powerful solution for tracking and monitoring products from production to distribution, ensuring full transparency and compliance with regulatory requirements.
This article explores how SAP Global Batch Traceability helps organizations maintain control over batch-related data, enabling real-time visibility into product movements, quality control, and potential issues.
Understanding the Need for SAP Global Batch Traceability
By offering comprehensive insights into every stage of the supply chain, SAP Global Batch Traceability supports businesses in mitigating risks, improving product safety, and ensuring customer trust through enhanced traceability.
Global Batch Traceability SAP solutions help organizations understand the relationships within their batch genealogies and establish a complete product genealogy by linking batch managed products and records from multiple systems into a single point of record.
The SAP GBT platform enables the efficient analysis of the complete product network from raw materials to finished products, including tracked objects across both SAP systems and non-SAP systems.
Key Features
Here’s a closer look at the main features included in the SAP Global Batch Traceability suite:
System administration
Perform tasks required to install, configure, maintain, and integrate SAP GBT into an existing technical environment. Complete other associated system administration tasks, such as collecting data, validating data quality and consistency, and monitoring core business users and roles.
Process support
Identify tracked objects and search for specific batches across systems to display a comprehensive global batch traceability network, either as a table or graphic. Analyze multiple batches and handling units across the existing system landscape and facilitate connections with the SAP ERP system to view each delivery assigned to an affected batch.
Batch usage
Assess global batch usage and distribution through graphical product genealogies and other visualization tools. Improve support for critical business activities like goods manufacturing and distribution.
Report generation
Select multiple batches in a single run to perform report generation, conduct withdrawals, enable precision recalls, and initiate holds. Leverage preconfigured templates to create reports for internal and external distribution records and raw material balances.
Benefits for Customers
- End-to-End Visibility: Enables real-time tracking of batches across the entire supply chain, from production to distribution.
- Quality Control: Monitors batch quality throughout production and distribution to minimize defects and ensure product integrity.
- Timely Compliance: Ensures adherence to global regulatory standards, industry requirements, and legal reporting timelines for product safety and quality.
- Cross-Enterprise Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other SAP systems, ensuring consistent data and collaboration across business units.
- Risk Management: Identifies and addresses potential issues, such as contamination or recalls, quickly and efficiently.
- Traceability: Provides detailed records of batch history, enabling transparent audits, inspections, and batch reports.
Integration with the Broader SAP Ecosystem
The web user interfaces connected to the SAP GBT platform are based on the Floorplan Manager Web Dynpro ABAP application, enabling users to leverage all necessary configuration and extension options in their existing SAP products.
Users can also utilize an SAP Business Client connected to an ABAP Client to call the SAP GBT application and bring all data together in one system.
How Can We Help?
From helping your internal teams configure SAP solutions to optimize batch product quality to proactively identifying product issues, facilitating integrations between SAP and non-SAP systems, and preparing your internal teams for continuous improvement, Surety Systems is here to help.
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