There are currently over 100,600 SAP installations at over 41,200 companies in the world. SAP announced at the 2013 Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement conference in Las Vegas in March that there are currently only around 400 installations of SAP EWM. EWM was release in 2007, and it’s obvious that the majority of […]
Consumer Feedback on E-Tail Order Fulfillment Processes
Consumers’ growing preference for online shopping resulted in unprecedented increases in order fulfillment and returns shipments in 2012. The numbers will increase in 2013 as the e-commerce & m-commerce (mobile commerce) movement is only revving up. With this rise in online orders, fulfillment and reverse logistics processes have never been as important for retail companies than they are as we enter the new year.
Massive Inevitable Changes For E-Tailer Shipping
Thanks to Gray Thursday, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, online retail (“E-tail”) sales have hit record highs in the US this holiday season. FedEx is expecting to ship a record 19 Million packages today alone (12/10/12). UPS has predicted that they will ship over 527 million packages in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared to 480 million packages total in 2011. The increase in shipping volume is shocking, and it’s only going up.
So what’s the impact? Both carriers and E-tailers are beginning to realize that, if they intend on maintaining the same levels of customer satisfaction and quality control as shipping volumes increase, the current partnership dynamic will be changing in a big way.
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. […]
Automating XSI Carrier Setup
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.
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 Shipping Solution – Cost/Benefit Calculator
Blue Harbors was created by a team of technical and business saavy SAP consultants back in 2001. That is evident in the solutions and services they provide. However, there is one area of the business that is “under construction”, and that is the marketing and sales aspect of the business. That’s where I come 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.
DWM Solution Case Study
Read a case study on how Blue Harbors’ DWM solution helped a Specialty Distribution business unit at a large pharmaceutical distribution company improve distribution and operational efficiencies and enhance user experience and productivity with a single ERP interface.
Stylesheet Generation Errors When Generating Client Proxies
When generating client proxies from certain WSDLs, including UPS web services, stylesheet generation errors can occur when one of the exception classes is instantiated for the first time.