SAP Logistics
Supply Chain: SAP Logistics
Effective logistics will improve a supply chain by decreasing the waste of materials and time. Delivering products to the right location and on time is a priority for any successful business to rise above the competition.
Logistics Simply Defined
Logistics is the management of information, and the flow of things between the point of origin to the point of consumption. It involves transportation, inventory, packing, supplies, compliance, and warehousing. Agile logistics is the integration of manufacturing, transportation, and information across the extended enterprise to provide competitive advantage through real-time flexible response to unique and changing customer requirements.
Supply Chain: SAP Logistics
Effective logistics will improve a supply chain by decreasing the waste of materials and time. Delivering products to the right location and on time is a priority for any successful business to rise above the competition.
Logistics Simply Defined
Logistics is the management of information, and the flow of things between the point of origin to the point of consumption. It involves transportation, inventory, packing, supplies, compliance, and warehousing. Agile logistics is the integration of manufacturing, transportation, and information across the extended enterprise to provide competitive advantage through real-time flexible response to unique and changing customer requirements.
Why is Logistics Important?
Logistics is an essential component in supply chain management and a critical blueprint of the supply chain. It is used to manage, coordinate, and monitor resources needed to move products in a smooth, timely, cost-effective, and reliable manner.
Two Main Types of Logistics
- Inbound: Gathering, handling, storing and transporting inbound materials.
- Outbound: Involves the collection, maintenance, and delivery of products to the customer.
Work toward streamlining advanced shipping notifications, store operations, and warehouse optimization. Logistics should be fast, responsive, and agile. Real-time insights into your supply chain can identify bottlenecks and mitigate risks.
Benefits of logistics are:
- Improve customer service
- Optimize operating costs
- Boost profitability
- Better intermodal operations
- Greater productivity and efficiency
- Intelligent route planning
Keep Your Customers, Rely on Professionals
Technical solutions can help monitor carrier performance, and give greater supply chain visibility and real-time information about shipments and supply chain performance.
Vendor partners for software solutions or operational intelligent are: SAP, BCC Distribution or Movilitas.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking Benchmark Report: Read the benchmark report to discover what drives logistics and inventory tracking innovation.
- Logistics and SCM Case Study: How Entergris built a successful road map for its global PLM journey: Learn how Entegris developed a strategic plan and gained quick wins along its current path to a full SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) deployment on the latest SAP technology platform.
- Logistics and SCM Case Study: How United Sugars mastered rail functionality with SAP TM 9.3 and automated 90% of its end-to-end transportation processes. Gain insights into refining transportation logistics.
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How to Integrate and Configure a Packing Station in the SAP Logistics Execution System
Learn about the integration of a packing station in the process of delivery of goods output and settings in the SAP Logistics Execution System. Key Concept In the SAP Logistics Execution System, there may be a packing process in which dynamic packing processes are based on manual or automated criteria. These processes are managed by…...…
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Exploit SAP Quality Management to Handle Subcontracting Activities
Learn about the main functionalities relevant for subcontracting activities during the production process in the case of discrete manufacturing, using the materials management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), and Financial Accounting (FI) modules. Follow details about the main customizing settings to be done in the system from a financial point of view. Key…...…
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Navigating Supply Chain Disruptions with SAP Logistics Business Network
We all have experienced how COVID-19 is affecting nations, governments, companies, and consumers around the world. Organizations like yours must quickly react in the short term and develop a feasible forward-looking plan to best navigate through this crisis and future unforeseen black swan events. To do so, you must get real-time insights into the extended…
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Exploit ERS Functionalities to Streamline Your Three-Way Match Processes
Learn about the processes involved in evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) in Purchasing and get details about the main customizing settings to be done in the system. Key Concept Evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) is a procedure for settling goods receipts automatically. When you use ERS, you agree with the vendor that the latter will not submit…...…
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Reduce Your Company’s Spending with SAP Active Ingredient Batch Management
Active ingredient batch management enables you to directly process transactions using quantities of active ingredients. Learn about the process and understand the main master data and customizing details that are required to run it. Key Concept Base units of measure are the primary units of measure (stock keeping units), but alternative units of measure also…...…
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Exploit SAP Quality Management to Handle External Activities
Learn about the main Quality Management (QM) functionalities relevant for external activities during the production process in the case of discrete manufacturing, using the Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), and Financial Accounting (FI) modules. Follow details about the main customizing settings to be done in the system from a QM point…...…
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Standard Tools Can Eliminate Multi-Source Consignment Confusion
See how to resolve problems related to ownership of materials that affect supply chain processes such as inventory tracking and invoicing. Key Concept Multi-source consignment refers to raw materials purchased from different vendors, but stored or mixed together in a common container, such as beverages or food items. Although it is not a best practice,…...…
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Reverse Wrong Consignment Postings in Your SAP System
Learn how to correct wrong consignment postings in your SAP system and prevent further wrong postings from occurring. Key Concept Wrong consignment postings are caused by several different factors, such as a wrong consignment info record, price, tax code, initial upload, or a goods movement. These errors can affect the entire supply chain because of…...…
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Manage Your Purchases with Configurable Products
Learn about the processes involved in purchasing using configurable products. Get details about the master data to be maintained in the system along with the main customizing settings available for this solution. Key Concept Configurable products are useful when a company needs to purchase, manufacture, or sell numerous combinations of parts that form a product…....…
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Run Setup Jobs in Parallel and Minimize Production Downtime When Using the Logistics Extraction Cockpit
Running a setup job through the Logistics Extraction Cockpit requires that you to turn off your logistics application. It is therefore important that the job run as quickly as possible. The fastest way to complete the setup job is to break it up into parts and run those parts in parallel. The authors show how…...…
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