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.
SAP Warehouse Optimization Solutions Presentation
Throughout the development and deployment our solutions & service offerings, we’ve taken note of the common “warehouse process pain points” our customers have experienced, as well as the solution applied to mitigate the problems. We’ve packaged all of this up into a presentation that walks our audience through a generic warehouse process flow, presenting common “symptoms” they might be seeing in their own environments, and then the “solutions” that Blue Harbors has developed to help.
Massively Reduce Your Inventory Levels With Standard SAP
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
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. […]
Meet SkyBin
SkyBin is a secure, powerful, and robust cloud-based WMS (Warehouse Management System) solution that simplifies and streamlines data management, logistics, and reporting processes.
DWM Solution Benefits
Application Link Enabling (ALE) is a middleware tool that connects different applications on different systems, such as two different SAP ERP systems. In addition, ALE permit customizations to accommodate business requirements — without the use of custom code.