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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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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NNS Implements SAP S/4HANA to Enable Digital Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding Implements SAP S/4HANA to Enable Digital Shipbuilding Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) builds the ships at the heart of the U.S. Navy’s strategic force: aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. With $5 billion in revenues and more than 25,000 employees, Va.-based NNS is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States. As it…
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Customer Q&A: How Radiant Logistics Automates more than 2 million Invoices Every Year
Come hear how Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: RLGT) is a publicly-traded, non-asset-based global transportation and supply chain management company supports an annual invoice volume of approximately 2 million and a very complicated manual workflow process in North America. Bring your toughest questions and learn how Radiant manages complex invoices with often more than 100 pages…
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Use Case: Process optimization with SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (FI-RA) for IFRS 15
Find out how SAP FI-RA was integrated at the automotive supplier ETAS in compliance with the requirements of the International Financial Reporting Standard 15 (IFRS 15). (PDF download, German)
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Use Case: A centralized IT system for a huge container shipping line
Hamburg Süd launched the GLOBE program aimed at transforming its entire process and IT environment. The company’s IT underwent a complete overhaul to ensure GLOBE was a success. The challenges:
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Use Case: Packaging specialist Knüppel switches from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA
Over the years, Knüppel’s R/3 with its connected BW had developed into a complex, heterogeneous system landscape that could no longer keep pace with growing requirements. The switch to S/4HANA:
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Accounts payable automation in transportation at Radiant Global Logistics
n this session, learn how Radiant Global Logistics automated their entire accounts payable (AP) process and is now able to process approximately 1,500,000 invoices per year with optical character recognition and workflow technology. The session will review the selection criteria used to determine the appropriate solution for the company and the challenges they faced before…
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