Next Monday afternoon, Josh and I will be heading out to Las Vegas to attend the SAP Logistics & SCM 2013 on behalf of Blue Harbors. I plan on taking notes on the sessions I attend throughout the conference, and sharing my thoughts on the highlights here on Blue Harbors’ blog. I’ve started to build […]
Reengineering Your Logistics Processes: Packing, Loading, Transportation and Shipping
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
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:
How to Stop Carrier Changes from Impacting Your SAP Shipping Functionality
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 […]
Time-Phased Planning in CBP and MRP
If a vendor always delivers a material on a particular day of the week, it makes sense to plan this material according to the same cycle in which it is delivered. Time-Phased Planning is an ideal solution for this scenario. Materials that are planned using the time-phased planning technique are provided with an MRP date in […]
SAP Scale Programs and Files – Free Download
Are you looking for a place to download the original SAP scale programs and files? Look no further… just use the attached link to download them in a zip file.
Displaying Outbound Web Services Messages in SAP
Legacy transaction LPCONFIG works well for setting up logical ports for web services. However Solution Manager provides greater functionality for logging errors and tracing. More importantly it provides an easy way to capture and view web service request and response messages. This is especially handy for providing sample messages to web service providers when troubleshooting.
Zebra Printers: INVALID-C error message
Thought I’d mention a common issue we see when attempting to print a FedEx Air Waybill (AWB) label on a Zebra barcode printer.
Scale_for_r3.exe: SAP Gateway prohibits external program registration
Here’s an uncommon problem that we ran into on our current Express Ship project. I included the solution in case others find this useful…
We Have Less To Offer – Blue Harbors Strategy
Since 2001, Blue Harbors has had one goal: To provide Supply Chain Management consulting services and solutions that add value to every company we have the opportunity to work with. In 2012, Blue Harbors is going to work hard to offer your company less… Yes, we 100% are serious.