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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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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Manage Complex External Manufacturing Operations with a Full Contract Manufacturing Solution in SAP
See how to implement a full contract manufacturing (CM) solution in an SAP system. Gain details about the main master and transactional data needed to implement this solution along with the most important customizing details from a logistics point of view. Key Concept An outline agreement (contract or vendor scheduling agreement) is set up once...…
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Vendor Consignment Process Saves Time by Cutting Steps
Learn how to handle the vendor consignment process across the main logistics modules. See how this method saves you time. Key Concept Vendor consignment is the process of having materials stored on a company’s site that are still legally owned by the vendor. This keeps the stock from being valued until it’s withdrawn from the...…
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Improve Customer Service by Enhancing the Integration of CRM and ECC Logistics and Billing
Most companies have established their logistics and billing processes in their SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) systems. Since understanding customers better has become a key strategy, many organizations are now also using SAP CRM to improve and analyze customer experience, interaction, and satisfaction. Integrating the two systems gives companies the option to maintain their solid...…
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Streamline Invoice Processes and Improve Customer Relationships by Implementing SAP SD Retroactive Billing
Implementing retroactive billing, available to you in SAP ERP Central Component 6.0, addresses the issue of changing pricing after invoices have already been sent. Learn the configuration steps needed to run retro-billing across modules in your SAP ERP system. Maintain your good customer relationships using this accurate, consistent business process. Key Concept Companies typically have...…
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Configure Packing Instruction Determination Strategies to Speed Up Product Delivery
Learn how to configure packing instruction determination and implement determination strategies to optimize a delivery process using packing instruction determination records. Key Concept Packing is one of the stages in the delivery process that has an impact on how long it takes to process a delivery. With packing instruction determination functionality, the delivery process is...…
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Manage Your Sales with Configurable Products
Learn about the processes involved in sales using configurable products. Read 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 if your company needs to purchase, manufacture, or sell numerous combinations of parts that form a product....…
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Exceptions in Early Warning System Notify Your Team of Lead-Time Errors
SAP Early Warning System, a function within Logistics Information System, can enhance your company’s supply chain monitoring capabilities. Learn how to set it up and create exceptions that can alert your team members to possible problems, such as production delays. Key Concept An exception is a user-defined query on the data in an information structure...…
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Make Your Customers’ Stock Readily Available With Modified Customer Consignment
If you are storing your customer’s goods on your own site, see how you can ensure that your customer’s stock is available at any time. Key Concept In customer consignment, a company has allowed its customer to reserve stock in the company’s warehouse. The goods have already been paid for and are considered to be...…
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LO Cockpit: An Introduction and Answers to Common Questions
Logistics Customizing Cockpit provides a simplified way to extract logistics data and transfer it to SAP Business Information Warehouse/SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. Learn about this tool and find out how you can use it with your logistics data. Key Concept Logistics Customizing Cockpit (LO Cockpit) is an alternative to the traditional Logistics Information System (LIS)....…
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