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2013 Transportation Rate Forecast Shows Collaboration More Important than Ever

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Though the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast showed improvement in the U.S. that will continue through 2013 and growth in 17 manufacturing sectors, we should expect to see small spikes in supply chain and logistics cost for each transportation sector this year. Because carriers will work to standardize procedures for […]

A Competitive Necessity – Implementing SAP’s Express Ship Interface Gives Your Business an Advantage

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It has been more than 25 years since FedEx offered a PC-based automated shipping solution and since that time, impressive innovations in electronic commerce have occurred throughout the next‐day carrier delivery industry. The question is: has your company taken advantage of the latest technological advances to increase market share, reduce the cost of doing business, […]

Consumer Feedback on E-Tail Order Fulfillment Processes

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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

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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

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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.

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.

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