SAP Business Network

Asset Collaboration
SAP

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Agenda
Introduction to SAP BNAC

Asset Register
• High level Demo
• Add Change Data
• Status Management
• Spare Parts / Stocks

Collaborative Maintenance
• Sharing Workorder
• Confirmations

Architecture
• Deployment
• API

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Introduction to SAP BNAC
What Do Our Customers Want?
Operator OEM Service Provider

“when I order a machine where “what machines do my “I need the best visibility to
is the best documentation?” customer have and are they plan the perfect job with my
“for my machines what is the still used / what more can I customers”
correct parts to order” sell them ”
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“Siloed” Asset Lifecycle
OEM Asset Operator

Equipment Specification Supply new equipment

Model s & Drawings Failure Mode
System Effect Analysis

Spare Failure Maintenance

Parts Modes History
Equipment
Recommendation Sensor Data
Functions & Predictive
s & Updates
Location Insights

Product Catalog Asset Register

Service Provider

Workshop Catalog

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 From ‘siloed’ asset information …

• No common asset taxonomy

Manufacturers Engineering & Service Asset Operator
Manufacturer Manufacturer Service Provider Service Provider Service Provider
(OEM)
Suppliers Construction
Suppliers Operator Provider
Operator (Owner)
Operator

• No business partner collaboration

Asset Lifecycle

• Siloed asset information

Design Manufacture/Build Commission Operate & Maintain Retire & Decommission

Obsolescence
• Inefficient asset data maintenance
Equipment Specifications Maintenance
Model Location Assessment
& drawings History
Equipment Specifications & Failure Mode Obsolescence
Model Drawings System Effect Analysis Analysis
Manufacturer Predictive • Poor asset data integrity
Spare Parts Failure Modes System
Insights

Manufacturer Maintenance
Failure Modes History
Spare Recommendations
Parts
& updates Instructions Equipment
Equipment Failure Mode
Effect Analysis

Sensor Data &

Recommendations Service
& Updates
Location Predictive
Bulletins
Insights

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…to a collaborative asset information
▪ Simplify collaboration by storing
common digital twin in the network
Design Manufacture/Build Commissioning Operate & Maintain Retire & Decommission

• Find all the asset information in one

Equipment Manufacturer place
Model Spare Parts

• Share best practices for optimal

Obsolescence Recommendations
Analysis & Updates
equipment availability

System
• Sustainable operations by
Failure Mode Specifications & collaborate with OEMs to optimize
Effect Analysis Drawings
maintenance process and asset
Equipment improvement programs

Maintenance
Failure Modes
History • Provide opportunity to new
business model to monetize
content and services
Sensor Data &
Service
Predictive
Bulletins
Insights
Location
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 Asset Register - Business challenges & value proposition
Common Business Challenges:
Asset Operator view Manufacturer view
▪ Poor asset data quality and lack of data integrity ▪ Missing installed base visibility and customer feedback
across multiple systems about product quality
▪ No asset data standardization and lack of common ▪ No single platform for collaboration with asset operators
asset taxonomy across the business partners
▪ Proactively publish product documentation version and
▪ Inability to identify bad actors based on unreliable spare parts catalog
benchmarking reports and multiple silos

Key Business Value Proposition:

Collaborate and find all asset Improve asset data integrity and Reduce master data maintenance
information in one place transparency across bus. partners effort and faster data commissioning
From days/weeks to minutes Improve asset benchmarking and bad actor identification Increase customer retention

 Increase customer trust through closer  Increase compliance to meet industry quality  Shorten issue response times and enrich
collaboration on the equipment definition standards (e.g. ISO 14224, EN 15380, decision making
 Improve technician FTE efficiency Eclass, CFIHOS, DIN SPEC 91406)  Immediate notification of equipment safety
(Wrench Time)  Deliver high quality of asset master data recalls and tracking sustainability data
 Reduce siloed and redundant asset using single version of truth  Share best practices for optimal maintenance
information
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processes and equipment performance 8
Asset Register - Demo
BNAC Overview

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BNAC Administration: Company Profile

• Here you can manage your company

profile as it will appear in the network. 1

• Roles are important to assign, as this is

1 2
required by other objects like 3
equipment.
2
• You can maintain locations, subsidiaries
and industry Ids which serve an
informational purpose. 3

• Invitees are accounts where you can

3 1
invitee other companies to join the
network and maintain / consume you
data.

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 BNAC Administration: Onboarding UI

• Every new customer account

gets redirected to an Onboarding
Interface when accessing SAP
BNAC for the first time via the IAM
Fiori Launchpad

• Details are used to maintain the

Company Profile of the customer

• Details can be changed later within the

company profile app

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BNAC Administration: Application Settings

• Here you can manage the general settings of SAP BNAC.

1
• Manage your / invited Users in SAP BNAC between the
2
1 3
different organizations (Parent & Invitee). 4
2
• Connect different external systems to BNAC. Examples 5
are ERP, SCI, C4S, SAP PdMS or Other. Creation of these
systems here allows you to manage/map external IDs for
objects like Equipment or Spare Parts.

3
• After creating an external system (e.g. ERP) you can
additionally specify object types (Material Master, Retail
Code) that you can link the right on to the object e.g. Spare
Part in SAP BNAC.

•
4 Here you can specify the max. file size, documents prefix
(mandatory), User Level Authorization, Spare Parts
Obsolescence and requests

5
• If you deploy SAP UI5 Extensions on top of SAP BNAC you can manage these extension apps here.

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BNAC Administration: Administration Overview

• Here you get an overview about the

usage of your SAP BNAC System
1 2 3
• Storage you are using which affects your
1
license.

• Your own Equipment vs. Equipment that

2
is being shared with you.

• Shared Equipment by different

3
Manufacturers

• Chart to view My Equipment vs. My

Equipment with External ID Maintained

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BNAC Administration: Business Partners

• Here you can manage your connection 1 2 3 4

with Premium business partners.
5
•
1 See all your existing Business Partner
connections.
• Accept Incoming requests.
2

• See your send requests.

3

• See Business Partner Connections you

4
disconnected.
• You can search in the network for
5
additional business partner to connect
with.

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BNAC Administration: Authorizations (Network)

• Here you can manage your authorization

groups with external companies.
• Predefined groups (blue)
1
1
• Own Group (white)
2

• For every group you can assign 1-n

3 4
Business Partners and objects. 2

• Every primary objects (Models,

4
Equipment, Template,…) has depended
objects. You can specify for each object
whether you want to share the object 3
and give read or write access.

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BNAC Administration: User Level Authorization (Internal)

• Here you can manage your authorization

groups within your company. 1

• Groups are created via UI or based on

1 2
CSV Upload. You can have a parent –
child hierarchy.

• Users, Objects and Groups can be

2
assigned to these groups.

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BNAC Applications: Equipment

2
•
1 Here you can manage / publish / group /
delete all equipment that are from your
company / shared with you. You have a list
and a map view. 1
2
2
• Filter and column is the same as with the
model.

3
• When creating a new equipment you can
choose a model or not. If defined – the model
suggests components including quantities. 3
•
4 You can choose different phases for the 4
equipment. Only for existing equipment a 4
serial number can be defined.

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BNAC Applications: Equipment – Equipment Page (1/4)

• The equipment page has different categories and sections per

1 category. You can change this and more in the header bar, mark
as favorite, view the structure and manage the external IDs. 1
• Under Information and section “highlights“ you see different
2 highlight cards. Completeness defines the completes of the 2
model or equipment. This can be defined in the model 3 4 5
template or subclass.

• The gallery shows assigned or tagged images.

3
• If a C4S System is connected/ External IDs are matching and
the equipment is based on a model you see pending tickets.
4
• If Asset Strategy & Performance Management is enabled you 6
5 also see results like Risk Scores.

• If Equipments are assigned and values are filled you see the
6 results under the Data Sheet Section.

• A new section called Sales Organization has been added in

7
7 the Information tab to enter the Sales Organization’s contact
details.

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BNAC Applications: Equipment – Equipment Page (2/4)

• Under Structure & Parts you can assign and disassemble

1
1
components of the equipment. This can be viewed also in 3
the side panel (You enable it on the top right).
1
• Documents that are file type .vds (Visual Enterprise) and
2 assigned to the model/equipment are displayed under
visual parts. They can be used for identification use cases
or integration into a SAP Hybris OEM Shop for purchasing.

3
• Spare Parts, Documents, Service Instructions,
Announcements, Failure Modes, Improvements Request
will be explained under their respective app.

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BNAC Applications: Equipment – Equipment Page (3/4)

•
1 Under Monitoring you find the Indicators. The User can
define, model and instantiate indicators and their thresholds.
Current values of Indicators are provides by PDMS and by 1
integration with 3rd party (analytical) applications.

•
2 Notifications and Work Orders can be found
under Maintenance & Service and are
pushed into SAP BNAC by the connected 2
ERP System and can be viewed in the
network.
3
• The Notifications section table now also 2
displays a failure mode column.
3
• Under Timeline you find the Equipment
Timeline. This shows you all changes that
have been done to the equipment with
business partners and files. The timeline
can be filtered.

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 BNAC Applications: Equipment – Equipment Page (4/4)

4• Under Monitoring you find the Failure Modes.

Information content of Failure Modes enhanced by
4
• RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and
Safety) Figures, e.g. failure pattern, MTTF, MTTR,
MTBF

• Failure Mode picture

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Asset Register – Status Management
Status Management

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Asset Register – Spare Parts
 BNAC Applications: Spare Parts

•
1 Spare Parts are objects that can be individually 1
maintained. They are on the same level like a model.

• Spare Parts have predefined attributes. They can be 2

enriched using templates, documents and failure
2
modes. Additionally they have a status e.g. released
or obsolete.

• Spare Parts also have Lifecycle Information

3 including successor spare parts.

• Assigned to other objects the BoM Quantity, Default

4 deliver quantity and advised stock quantity can be 3
assigned to Spare Parts. If the OEM Spare Part Shop
was connected to SAPBNAC you could order them
directly at this shop. 4

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Asset Register – Additional
BNAC Applications: Announcement

• Announcements are used to inform other network

participants about changes.

• It depends on the type which objects are included

1 and affected. Only availability announcements can
be assigned to equipment. All others are assigned 2
to models.

•
2 It depends on the type whether instructions, spare
parts are affected too.

• The system automatically asks you whenever you

save changes to objects whether you want to 1
create an announcements.

• Announcements can be found under the

documentation category at models or equipment.

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 BNAC Applications: Instructions

•
1 Service Instructions shall describe how to execute a
service.
1
•
2 There are different types of Service Instructions.
Failure Modes can only be assigned to Breakdown
Instructions. 3

•
3 You can define the number of steps, duration,
criticality, safety rules, tools and assign required
spare parts. Additionally, frequency is now an
optional field for planned instructions.
4
•
4 Additionally you can define preconditions, the steps
themselves and post checks.

•
5 You can add different documents. If you added an 2
animated 3D file (.vds) the end user can view the
sequences.
5

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 BNAC Applications: Performance Improvements

•
1 Performance Improvements are objects to
collaborate with business partners. You find them 1
and a small report within the equipment under
Monitoring.

• Improvement Requests can be internal or external.

2
There are 3 different kinds of improvement requests. 2

•
3 The Improvement request affects based on its kind
an equipment, a location or a model.
4
•
4 The requests can be rated, enriched with
information and submitted / reviewed by business 3
partners. This influences the improvement request
reporting.

• Additionally you find a timeline to view the progress

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 BNAC Applications: Documents

•
1 You find documents within the equipment page
under the documentation category. You can filter
them according to the object, the category or the 1 3
phase.

2
• Within the central documents app you can upload /
download documents and also upload different 4
languages.

3
• When creating a new document you can choose
between a file or a link. Additionally you can 2 4
maintain language, category and phase.

4
• If you specify a document as confidential you are
not able to share it externally.

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 BNAC Applications: Documents - Hotspotting

1
•
1 Documents that are pictures can be opened within
the documents app to create hotspots. Hot spots 3
can be simply drawn on the picture 2

2
• While creating a hot spot you can link all kinds of
objects to that object.

• You can view the hotspots whenever you click on

the document e.g. within the equipment record.

•
3 You can save a hot spotted picture as a SAP Fiori tile
in the cockpit for user individual visual navigation
(This could be an P&I Chart).
2

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 BNAC Applications: Locations

•
1 You can view locations within a map or list view
(behaves like the equipment / model list). Locations
can be spots, lines or areas.

•
2 Locations behave like other objects, you have the 1
same structure and e.g. completeness calculation,
data sheets, documents and failure modes.

•
3 The Installation Location can overwrite the
2
equipment installation location when the equipment
is installed within that location.

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 BNAC Applications: Personal Dashboard

•
1 The personal dashboard gives you a 2
compressed overview about the SAP Asset 1
Intelligence Network. You could use it as an
alternative entrance.

2
• You have the Lookup App integrated on top. 3

•
3 You have all standard applications on top.

3
• You can personalize the dashboard by
• Bookmark equipment or other objects with the
star icon. 4
• Frequently view the most important objects.
• Get automatic Tasks (Announcements) displayed
by the system.
3

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 BNAC Applications: Requests

•
1 Requests are objects to ask for information.
They can be created for models and for 1
equipment, too.

2
• A model request is an object similar to a
performance improvement request. It includes
basic information, documents, affected
equipment and a timeline. Additionally it has a
status and visualizes the progress.
2
•
3 View Timeline for more details about
changes made to the equipment request.

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 BNAC Applications: Lookup

• The SAPBNAC Lookup app is included in the

1
SAPBNAC Personal Dashboard. But you can
also start it directly from the Fiori Launchpad.

1• You can type in an object ID – but best to use

it with the SAP Fiori Client on a mobile device.
Then the device‘s camera can be used to scan
bar/QR codes or NFC Tags.

• SAP BNAC will look for EQ ID, Serial Number

or External ID to identify the correct
equipment.

• If you choose Error Code instead of lookup it

will show you a list of possible error codes
based on the model information of that
equipment. This list is searchable.

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 BNAC Applications: Systems

1• Systems are objects across different

equipment hierarchies. Examples are 1 2
electrical systems or fluid systems.

2• Systems can be created and enriched by

objects and documents. 3

3• Additionally the topology of the system can

be visualized – only via API so far.

• This is enabled by e.g. the Hilscher Net IoT

Gateway and allows customers to
automatically register their assets in the
network.

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Analytics

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 BNAC Applications: Data Protection and Privacy

• New role DPP_AUTH for Data Protection

and Privacy Officers has been introduced

• Management of user data by authorized

users (change information, deletion, …)

• Audit reports can be generated

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 Classification in SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration– Modeling Example

Template System Top

CLASS: CLASS: CLASS: CLASS:

Pump Motor Transformer Switchgear

SUBCLASS: SUBCLASS:
Centrifugal Rotating

Model Template Model Template Model Template

Family A Family B Family E

MODEL Template MODEL EQUIPMENT

Model Template
Class Type: E-23-8384
E-23
E-23 E-23-8384 Ser No: 981 4981
Model Template
Class Type:
E-24
Transformer
Model Template MODEL EQUIPMENT
Class Type:
E-25
E-23-9547
E-23-9547 Ser No. 978 2547

MODEL Template MODEL EQUIPMENT

E-24-7487
E-24 E-24-7487 Ser No: 898 8742

MODEL EQUIPMENT
E-24-8748
E-24-8748 Ser No: 257 6884
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Collaborate in a common taxonomy

A comprehensive asset taxonomy is a critical element for asset data integrity, fundamental in the
documentation of maintenance events and a tool for bad actors analysis

Global Standard Classification– provided and maintained by SAP. Based on industry

standards e.g. ISO 14224, IEC 60076, BS EN 15380 , eCl@ss
Class
Manufacturers
Class: Rotating Equipment
(OEM) Subclass: Pump
Subclass Attributes: Rated Power (kW)
Normal rotational speed (rpm)

Is classified as
Model Template & Model Information
Engineering &
Manufacturer

Regular Pump
Supplier

Construction Model
Model Template:
Template
Is a specialization of Model Model: 200 Series
Manufacturer: ACME Transformer Inc.
Colour: Grey
Equipment
Template Is an instance of

Asset Operator
Equipment, System and Location Information
(Owner)
Service Provider

Is a specialization of Equipment
Operator

Equipment: Pump 554

Is part of Site Data: Dusty Environment
Year Installed: 2010
Service Location/ System
Is a specialization of Location/System Name Plate:
Template
Provider
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Integration Architecture
Integration Scenarios
Integration with Enterprise Asset Management

What is it ?
The integration layer connecting Asset Central Foundation & ERP is renewed. The renewed integration comprises of the
following key components –
• Aligned data models & Public APIs from Asset Central
• Message infrastructure based on Kafka for business events in AC
• Standard ERP Adapter to subscribe business events in AC
• SAP Mobile Add-on for push enablement & Queue processing in ERP

Why is it important?
• Allows managing asset data in real time and ensures data consistency • Seamless integration and improves the overall
process experience.

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Integration: Asset Central Foundation with S/4HANA and other SAP solutions

• Integration scenario ensures asset

information is kept current in near
real time between asset suite of
products in SAP cloud platform
and Enterprise Asset Management
(EAM).
• Integration uses fully documented
and standards based APIs from
Asset Central Foundation.
• Extend processes referring to
asset data using public APIs from
asset central foundation

Non SAP

Supported Releases : On Premise: ECC 6.0(EhP7 & above) / S4H(1709 & above), S/4 HANA Cloud (limited scope), non SAP – via APIs

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Integration Scenarios
Integration with Enterprise Asset Management

The Integration Options are

available with SAP Mobile
Addon & Snotes:

• Linking of EAM Objects to BNAC

Models

• Display of BNAC Model Information in

SAP GUI Asset Central Tab

• Equipment, Location, EQ
Classification, Material Classification,
Notification, Work Orders, Business
Partners, Task Lists & Maintenance
Plan Replication & Synchronization

• Document Creation/Synchronization
b/w EAM & AIN

• BNAC Announcement Processing in

EAM

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Integration Scenarios
API Integration

Powerful REST APIs and API tutorial for SAP Business Network Asset
Collaboration

▪ Last version publicly available atSAP Business Network Asset Collaboration | SAP Help Portal

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 Integration Scenarios
SAP ERP / S/4HANA Integration

Integration Guide for SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration

▪ Last version publicly available at SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration | SAP Help Portal

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