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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
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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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