Streamline inbound and outbound logistics processes

  • Enhance inbound and outbound logistics by optimizing the flow of materials and enhancing transparency.
  • Employ barcode and RFID technology to facilitate just-in-time availability, handle units, manage serial numbers, exchange electronic data, and verify deliveries.
  • Reduce delivery mistakes, expedite fulfillment, enhance customer service, and lower operational expenses.
  • Use predictive analytics to forecast delivery dates for stock-transport orders.

Enable real-time reporting in inventory management with SAP S/4HANA

Extract insights into supply, stock levels, and fulfillment activities to support informed decision-making.

  • Enhance inventory management with decisions based on both real-time and historical data.
  • Quickly access pertinent information for inquiries, comparisons, or selection of advised actions for processes.
  • Facilitate swifter decision-making that aligns with goals in supply, inventory, and fulfillment by leveraging deeper insights.
  • Assist inventory managers and warehouse clerks in their daily operations with relevant operational analytics.

Core Shipping

Efficiently plan and process transports with maximum control and transparency.
Basic shipping encompasses planning and execution for both inbound and outbound processes. It enables users to manage and oversee the entire transportation journey, from planning to the issuance of goods at the shipping point (outbound) or vendor site (inbound), all the way to the receipt of goods at the customer’s location or the user’s own facility.

  • Receive deliveries and organize shipments.
  • Manage transportation including preliminary steps and related operations.
  • Oversee the completion of shipments.
  • Calculate and finalize transportation costs with carriers.

Delivery Management

Improve order fulfilment with integrated logistics execution across pick, pack, and ship processes

  • Enhance the picking, packing, and shipping processes to guarantee that the correct products are delivered to the right location at the right time, and that incoming goods are efficiently received into storage.
  • Streamline material flows, enhance customer communication and collaboration, and ensure transparency throughout all warehouse operations with embedded analytics.
  • Boost process transparency by improving stakeholder communication, such as by sending and receiving advance shipping notifications.

Available-to-Promise

Provide order commitments based on real-time stock information to enhance customer satisfaction. Available to promise involves committing to order dates based on business rules, considering material availability, and enforcing allocations.

  • Deliver quicker commitment dates and quantities for order-promising during both the creation and modification of orders.
  • Take into account material availability when promising orders.
  • Offer delivery commitments for promised orders to improve customer satisfaction.

Transportation Management

Deliver perfect orders with integrated logistics execution processes that improve shipping quality.
Transportation Management facilitates the entire lifecycle of transportation management for both domestic and international freight, enhancing customer satisfaction. It handles transportation needs by planning, optimizing, tendering, and settling freight, booking carriers, managing forwarding orders, and adhering to international trade and hazardous goods regulations.

  • Consolidate the shipping procedures for both inbound and outbound shipments.
  • Enhance material flows and cut logistics expenses by fostering better communication and transparency among stakeholders throughout fundamental transportation processes.
  • Establish detailed freight agreements with intricate calculation rules and conduct precise freight costing.
  • Simplify the integration of freight costing into procurement and finance operations.

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management involves overseeing the activities of picking, packing, and shipping within the warehouse and optimizing the use of assets and throughput.

  • Automate warehouse operations to enhance asset utilization, boost throughput, and ensure timely and accurate order fulfillment.
  • Enhance transparency in warehouse operations with streamlined material flows and improved communication and collaboration with customers.
  • Speed up fulfillment and prevent stock-outs to enhance customer service, using embedded analytics.

Circular Economy Logistics

Empties management involves real-time tracking of empty containers and refunding deposits, efficiently monitoring the movement of empties to and from business partners, and accurately capturing detailed data and recording high-volume transactions related to empties returns and associated deposits.

Returnable packaging logistics encompasses the management of tracking, shipping, and receiving returnable packaging materials to and from business partners. This process aims to minimize the loss, waste, and damage of the packages.

  • Track shipping and receiving of returnable packaging materials to and from business partners using a real-time solution.
  • Cut cost by avoiding stock-outs for packing and supplying goods.
  • Gain visibility in materials distribution and reduce overall volume of materials by integrating logistics information into a single version of the truth.
  • Reduce operating costs arising from deviant packaging materials.

See also the benefits of utilizing SAP S/4 HANA in

Finance & Controlling

Supply Chain (Purchasing)

Supply Chain Management

Product Engineering

Manufacturing

Quality Management

Sales

Project Control

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