Transportation and Logistics
Transportation and logistics are supply chain sub-functions that cater to movement of people and goods. Since supply chains exist to fulfill demand by getting the products to the customers, and transportation and logistics takes care of the actual movement, they form the backbone of most supply chains. As recent disruptions in supply chains across industries have shown, transportation and logistics are prone to process failures and risks. Effective management and transformation of transportation and logistics is therefore a priority for companies across industries.
SAP and Partner Technologies for Transportation and Logistics
Transportation and logistics are supply chain sub-functions that cater to movement of people and goods. Since supply chains exist to fulfill demand by getting the products to the customers, and transportation and logistics takes care of the actual movement, they form the backbone of most supply chains. As recent disruptions in supply chains across industries have shown, transportation and logistics are prone to process failures and risks. Effective management and transformation of transportation and logistics is therefore a priority for companies across industries.
SAP and Partner Technologies for Transportation and Logistics
Technology is rapidly transforming transportation and logistics. From building supply chain visibility through track and trace technologies to using emerging technologies like IoT, transportation and logistics function is getting redefined across industries. Examples of areas where technology is transforming transportation are:
Visibility solutions help track and trace transportation and logistics operations in real-time. This real-time data, when paired with technologies like IoT, can also help gain real-time insights into the condition of products that are moving through the transportation and logistics network.
Planning and management solutions help in transportation and logistics services procurement, transportation and demand planning, warehouse management planning, and warehouse operations execution. Examples of such solutions are transportation management solutions, warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse execution systems (WMS).
Automation systems, primarily leveraged in warehouse operations, like warehouse mobile and static robots, help enhance warehouse productivity and efficiency by taking away many manual labor tasks, accelerating warehouse flow in many scenarios.
Optimization and analytics solutions help leverage transportation and logistics data to help gain new insights into efficiency opportunities in the network, redesign the network or perform simulations on warehouse processes. Examples of solutions are route optimization, transportation spend analytics, transportation network optimization, simulation etc.
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Aggregate Planning with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Aggregate planning is a planning process that involves balancing demand, inventory, capacity, and supply at a higher granularity in order to achieve efficient, cost-effective, and timely production and distribution of goods or services. The goal of aggregate planning is to align the organisation’s resources, such as workforce, production facilities, and inventory, with the expected demand…...…
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Managing Assets Intelligently with Rizing
Companies in asset-intensive industries are always looking to improve the performance of their assets and workers to reduce downtime and unscheduled maintenance while aligning their asset management best practices with broader organisational and financial goals. Yet there is no one-size-fits-all solution. When pursuing EAM process, strategy, and system improvements, companies should consider partners like Rizing…
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How Innovapptive Brings Frontline Workers into the Intelligent Enterprise
Executives and other decision-makers are always pushing for more insights to help them run their business in an intelligent and innovative way. Yet many asset-intensive businesses fail to communicate and transact effectively with their frontline workers, who are still relying on outdated manual systems to run essential processes. Without a single source of truth, important…
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Maximizing SAP Business Network for Logistics (BN4L)
Many organizations are struggling to meet their supply chain obligations to maximize business value. Whether it is shippers, carriers, warehouse managers, everyone wants an efficient process. To help the supply chain process, SAP has a robust list of supply chain management functions, including SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), SAP Transportation Management (SAP TMS), SAP…
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T-Systems Strengthens Urban Mobility Portfolio with GeoMobile Acquisition
T-Systems International, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has acquired GeoMobile, a software company based in Dortmund, Germany, with the aim of strengthening its Transport and Logistics portfolio. GeoMobile specializes in providing a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform to public transport operators, offering a wide range of tailored mobility services to passengers. Through the GeoMobile platform, passengers can…
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Improved SAP Release Management using Change Automation
Linfox, aiming to be the most trusted logistics partner, recognized the need for improved SAP release management. To address risks related to manual processes, application silos, and lack of auditability, Linfox implemented ActiveControl, enabling rapid and reliable SAP change delivery while ensuring system integrity. This session highlights how Linfox maintains synchronized systems, enforces process governance,…
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Predicting the Future – Not with a Crystal Ball, but with Data
Norfolk Southern (NS) locomotives transmit 350+ diagnostic elements about their engines and mechanical parts in real-time to the back-office. Utilizing a multitude of historical and real-time diagnostic data and a history of component failures, NS has created a reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based predictive model that detects mission-critical breakdowns with a high degree of confidence on…
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Operationalizing Our Contracts at Air Canada: How We Achieve Compliance and Capitalize on Our Savings Using Ariba
At Air Canada, our strategic procurement team’s purpose is to employ a disciplined approach to procurement with the aim of obtaining best value for goods and services. We work with various stakeholders to help them through competitive sourcing, drafting, and executing of their contracts. Without a robust procurement tool, we were not able to tie…
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Mobile Mini: Streamlining SAP Inventory Management Application
Tracking storage assets across finance, logistics, and operations is critical to the bottom and top lines at Mobile Mini – the world’s leading provider of portable storage solutions – to their investment in SAP ECC as their core system. Over the last 35+ years, however, Mobile Mini has grown largely through acquisition – creating many…
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How To Optimize Inventory With All the Variables in Play
Optimize Inventory Cost reduction and managing risks are two of the top three essential priorities for supply chain managers across the board, perhaps behind only supporting top-line growth. Inventory is one area in which cost reduction and risk management are critical to better financial results. How much of your company’s working capital is tied up…...…
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