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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Managing global shipping challenges in a complex market
The ILA strike that halted US East and Gulf Coast ports was resolved with a tentative agreement to extend collective bargaining until January 2025, amidst ongoing challenges faced by the US shipping industry, including high container imports and geopolitical conflicts affecting logistics.
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Data drives CX for Toyota Financial Group with Boomi integration
With tangled APIs and integrations, Toyota Financial Services Group picked Boomi to help centralize its data and improve customer experience.
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How can users come up for air in a permacrisis? EY talks manufacturing and supply chains
Manufacturers and supply chains are feeling the permacrisis pressure. EY’s global consulting head of SAP, Dr. Tom Janoshalmi, shares how users can resurface from the slump. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here
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Managing Supply Chain Risks during Uncertain Times
A looming strike by 45,000 International Longshoremen’s Association workers at East and Gulf Coast ports starting October 1, 2024, may severely disrupt supply chains and exacerbate existing delays in cargo handling during the peak holiday shipping season, highlighting the need for a robust TMS.
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Unifying Fleet and Transportation Planning for Maximizing Resources and Minimizing Costs
Integrating the planning of private fleets and for-hire carriers into a unified software platform enables retailers and manufacturers to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer service by optimizing logistics and minimizing the inefficiencies associated with managing these resources separately.
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TM International Logistics Gains Real-Time Visibility from the Warehouse to the Doorstep with IBM, SAP and Microsoft
TM International Logistics Limited (TMILL) worked with IBM Services to deploy SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure to boost efficiency and offer global delivery tracking to consumers and businesses worldwide. They chose Azure as the optimal platform for their real-time analytics environment.
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Keeping Quito’s Citizens Moving with New Public Transport Options
EPMMQ runs its mission-critical applications on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX to support non-stop operations keeping the project moving.
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Probabilistic Supply Chain and Demand Forecasting with SAP IBP: Deliver Results Using Data Science
SAP introduced the concept of Probabilistic Supply Chain into its SAP IBP product in the current and future versions with adaptive and very powerful algorithms for large data sets. Certainly, AI has been around within the SAP landscape for a while with extremely powerful algorithms in the SAP BW-Data Mining suite and SAP HANA PAL…
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End-to-End Scenario Planning with SAP IBP
Supply chain disruptions are becoming a more prevalent part of daily life for may companies around the world. Geopolitical tensions, rising costs, and disorganization can hinder all different types of supply chains, making it nearly impossible for a business to operate effectively. To help companies improve their outlooks, SAP offers SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP…
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How CloudPaths Makes Supply Chains Smarter
Supply chains have experienced unprecedented challenges and obstacles in recent years – COVID-19, inflation, geopolitical tensions, and much more. These issues are posing unique challenges to organizations, even into 2024. Many of these companies are turning to the supply chain experts at CloudPaths to address end-to-end planning and execution issues. CloudPaths has helped dozens of…
