With the adoption of SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Transportation Management, Mankind has transformed its warehousing operations to support its massive growth agenda, helping the company make the right investment decisions in new warehouses.

Thanks to rapid user adoption, the company experienced improved accuracy in its warehouse operations from the get-go. In its production warehouse, Mankind optimized crane efficiency with handheld terminals enabled for receiving, dispensing, and put-away processes. There’s also container-level visibility of stock, including in the automated storage and retrieval system, which is available upon a barcode scan. A systematized dispensing process, featuring automated capture of weights and scanning of batch and container identifications, provides pinpoint accuracy. The company has also increased productivity by maximizing automation equipment utilization, with its weighing and dispensing system now directly linked to production processes, improving medicine efficacy. The introduction of a single labeling process for each SKU throughout the supply chain process helps ensure accurate and fast retrieval.

In the depots, Mankind has seen increased operational efficiency from using system-guided picking and put-away strategies, and the use of handheld terminals has significantly improved accuracy and batch controls. There’s also improved visibility and traceability throughout warehousing areas from gate to staging and storage.

In terms of its investment in SAP Transportation Management, Mankind has automated transporter invoice and dispute management workflows. It can also smoothly collaborate with transporters for peer-to-peer shipment tendering processes through SMS and e-mail functionality. Real-time analytics and reporting provide up-to-the-minute insights and compliance checks, while system-based load optimization, routing, and automated freight settlement charges optimize operators’ workloads.

In addition, there’s digital order management for truck distribution and pickup for goods and samples. Transportation planning functionality allows the company to send parcels on the samples network. Meanwhile, integration with third-party handlers provides comprehensive visibility and smooths transportation execution.

Since the go-live, Mankind has achieved 99.9% inventory accuracy, reduced dispatch time by 40% through wave picking, and increased space utilization by 20%, allowing the company to close one of its three depots.