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The Impact of SAP SRM

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According to research performed by A.T. Kearney, procurement organizations spend up to 85% of their time on answering supplier questions and processing return and purchase orders. These activities are performed at the expense of the business. SAP SRM allows a business to reclaim this wasted time & money through enhancing supplier relationships, and ultimately, streamlining the procure-to-pay process.

Customizing SAP RF Mobile Screens

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ITSmobile is SAP’s current technology base for connecting mobile devices to SAP systems. It’s based on SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) and has been shipped as part of the Netweaver platform since Netweaver 2004. ITSmobile provides a framework for generating HTML browser based screens for any SAP transaction. For the purpose of this blog, we will focus the RF mobile (LMxx) transactions, which are designed to support various warehouse processes.

Massively Reduce Your Inventory Levels With Standard SAP

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What companies do to strengthen their competitive position permanently, is to optimize the material flow throughout the supply chain in addition to an error free and efficient production environment. Blue Harbors satisfied this requirement using a full automated replenishment solution for external procured materials based on standard SAP ERP. We extended the pull principle Bosch […]

Reengineering Your Logistics Processes: Packing, Loading, Transportation and Shipping

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When the Blue Harbors team is asked to connect a customer’s SAP system to carriers such as FedEx and UPS, the project often kicks off without much drama. We start working with the carriers to get the accounts established; we customize SAP and load the necessary mapping rules to support web services; and so on. […]

List of Transportation Organizations that Support Web Services or EDI Communication

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There is an ever growing list of carriers, transportation companies, freight brokers and forwarders, and even government agencies that facilitate shipping by supporting electronic communication. The depth of services supported varies from carrier to carrier, but most have the following capabilities:

Automating XSI Carrier Setup

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One of the more tedious aspects to configuring XSI is setting up each carrier (Express Delivery Company) in the XSI Cockpit (VTRC). UPS and Fedex used to provide a mechanism for loading much of the data via SAP Business Connector (see http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/1b17c690-0201-0010-17b1-a362e172a094), however this is no longer supported by either carrier or by SAP.

How to Stop Carrier Changes from Impacting Your SAP Shipping Functionality

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From time to time parcel carriers such as FedEx and UPS update the format of their shipping labels. The FedEx notices below may look familiar. This puts pressure on you to vigilantly follow pending changes from your Carriers and stay on top of implementing updates in your system. Depending on type of shipping solution deployed […]

SAP HANA & The Amazon Cloud (AWS EC2)

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With an unprecedented display of transparency, SAP recently announced (Sapphire Orlando) that it would make SAP HANA instances available to developers in Amazon Cloud (AWS EC2). You can check out the official announcement on SAP’s “Experience SAP HANA” site. Getting your own HANA sandbox up and running is relatively straight forward, particularly if you already have an AWS account. There are also a couple of handy tutorials to get you started. Check out the developer guide HERE.

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