SAP Logistics Software
Solutions for Your Future-Proof Business
Logistics technology and logistics software are essential components for boosting operational efficiency, optimizing control, and reducing costs and disruptions within logistical operations. While the benefits of digitized supply chains are widely acknowledged, navigating the implementation process can present challenges.
At Camelot, we’re here to guide you through a seamless transition to logistics digitization. We’ll help you select the right logistics software solutions and steer the implementation process for optimal results. With our comprehensive approach, we merge logistics strategy services, process expertise, and implementation know-how, providing end-to-end logistics consulting with tangible results and sustainable business value.
We collaborate with a wide range of top-tier logistics technology providers, covering the cutting-edge stack of logistics software solutions in the market. We also maintain a longstanding partnership with SAP, one of the largest providers in the field. If any standard offerings fall short of meeting your business needs, we’re equipped to extend those solutions or seamlessly integrate alternative logistics partner solutions, ensuring you gain the greatest advantage.
Let us join you on this journey toward heightened logistical performance and efficiency with our digital logistics services.
Digital Logistics Overview
Navigating Digitalization in Logistics
A digitized supply chain comes in many shapes and starts from different points. Therefore, in the context of logistics digitalization, many questions arise about the best logistics software, how to implement it, what features are needed, and what steps to take. At Camelot, we’re ready to answer all these questions thoroughly, specifically for your industry and business. Our aim is not just to strengthen your processes through digital logistics, but also to significantly improve them.
Companies can elevate their supply chain with tailored digital logistics solutions to boost efficiency and drive results. A streamlined operation that minimizes manual errors and accelerates processes can be achieved through automation and real-time data analytics. Logistics managers experience enhanced visibility into their logistics with advanced tracking and monitoring capabilities, enabling proactive problem-solving and informed decision-making.
Digital logistics solutions are designed to deliver tangible cost savings by optimizing routes, inventory levels, and resource allocation, reducing transportation, storage, and operational expenses. With access to data-driven insights, logistics managers can pinpoint improvement areas and foster innovation, ensuring their supply chain stays ahead of the curve.
Organizations can promote collaboration and connectivity across their supply chain ecosystem with digital logistics platforms, and strengthen relationships with suppliers, carriers, and partners, creating a more connected and efficient supply chain.
Understanding the specific business needs is the first step towards selecting the right digital logistics solution. Begin by assessing your current processes to uncover areas ripe for improvement. Look for manual, repetitive tasks that could be automated or bottlenecks that could be eliminated to streamline your operations.
Next, identify the pain points. Whether it’s slow customer support, inefficient inventory management, or data analysis challenges, pinpointing these issues will help you prioritize the features and functionalities you need in a digital logistics solution.
Define your goals to shape your selection criteria. Whether you aim to expand into new markets, grow your customer base, or streamline operations, knowing your objectives will guide you toward a digital logistics solution that aligns with your vision and supports your growth plans.
Once you understand your business needs, focus on assessing available digital logistics solutions. Consider budget and cost considerations, ensuring the solution offers value for money. Evaluate scalability and growth potential to ensure it can grow with your business. Check integration and compatibility to ensure seamless system integration. Lastly, explore user-friendliness to ensure ease of use for your team.
SAP’s suite of digital logistics solutions encompasses the entirety of a company’s supply chain. The seamless connectivity and integration among these systems empower organizations to construct an efficient, responsive, and agile supply chain tailored to their specific requirements.
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) aids organizations in optimizing transportation operations, covering everything from route planning to freight auditing and billing, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) assists companies in streamlining warehouse operations, leading to improved inventory accuracy and productivity.
SAP Yard Logistics (SAP YL) enables organizations to maximize resource utilization, expedite gate throughput, and achieve unparalleled visibility and control in their yard logistics.
Additionally, SAP offers other solutions such as Business Network Freight Collaboration (SAP BNFC) and SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace (SAP BNGTT), providing further support in connecting with partners and suppliers, enhancing real-time visibility, and ensuring seamless logistics operations.
Discover more about additional digital logistics solutions from other trusted cooperation partners that seamlessly integrate with SAP.
At Camelot, we’re a consulting firm offering comprehensive logistics strategy consulting and logistics system implementation services. With our end-to-end consulting approach, we ensure organizations find the perfect path for their logistics digitalization journey.
As a trusted partner of SAP, we possess the expertise to implement SAP digital logistics and supply chain solutions in a manner that fosters sustainable growth and adoption. From crafting implementation roadmaps to conducting customizations and end-user trainings, we handle every step of the process with precision.
Our team boasts extensive logistics process knowledge across various industries, particularly in manufacturing, consumer goods, pharma, chemicals, and retail. This enables our consultants to pinpoint opportunities for process enhancement and leverage industry-leading practices.
Camelot’s specialization in supply chain management fosters a seamless integration between digital logistics and supply chain operations, ensuring maximum benefits from implementation projects.
Regardless of your organization’s unique circumstances – whether it’s embarking on an SAP S/4HANA transformation or requiring tailored logistics solutions for specific needs – reach out to us, and let’s collaborate to craft the optimal digital logistics solution.
"When the pandemic hit, we saw a run on our stores that exceeded our expectations. Now our goal was clear. To deliver the goods swiftly and keep our customer‘s satisfaction, we needed a new transport management. When the system passed user tests after only five weeks we knew that we had succeeded. Thanks to Camelot for the joint efforts and their valuable expertise."
Michael Mehrhof, Business Partner Logistics, HORNBACH Baumarkt AG
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
Revolutionize your Warehouse Management with SAP EWM
The introduction of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) underscores SAP’s commitment to delivering a fully integrated, flexible, and efficient system solution for warehouse control and management. Both EWM Basic and EWM Advanced provide versatile control capabilities for warehouse operations, spanning from goods receipt to intralogistics processes and goods issuance. The digital logistics solution also enables warehouse automation.
SAP EWM: Integration Without Boundaries
By leveraging the integration capabilities of SAP EWM, communication barriers between the warehouse and other business areas are eliminated, enabling comprehensive process control. Inbound deliveries sourced from the ERP or directly from suppliers streamline warehouse operations in the goods receipt area, while interfaces with add-ons like BartTender or Kardex enhance internal processes. Direct communication with the transportation management system facilitates coordinated planning for goods issuance alongside transportation activities.
This seamless exchange of information minimizes inefficiencies, misunderstandings, and delays typical in daily logistics operations. Drawing upon our extensive experience and expertise gained from numerous EWM implementations, Camelot stands ready to assist you in establishing an optimal digital logistics system landscape centered on SAP EWM.
Flexibility in Digital Logistics Is the Be-All and End-All
Our diverse clientele presents a range of unique demands for warehouse management systems. Pharmaceutical clients prioritize the meticulous monitoring of goods’ physical condition, while retail partners contend with fluctuating demands influenced by seasonal trends. SAP’s Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) solution offers unparalleled flexibility to accommodate these varied requirements, which often evolve simultaneously and periodically. From intricate configuration options to process control indicators and even robotics integration for warehouse automation, SAP ensures that your warehouse management system aligns seamlessly with your evolving needs. This flexibility guarantees that your logistics technology adeptly supports and transparently maps your processes without necessitating adjustments to your workflows.
Camelot collaborates closely with you to define and optimize your warehouse processes, providing expert guidance on seamlessly integrating them into SAP EWM, from conceptualization to implementation.
Keeping Pace with Evolving Trends in Digital Logistics
The Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) system is designed to be future-proof, and continually enriched with additional functionalities through regular releases by SAP. These enhancements are developed based on business-centric feedback, ensuring alignment with the dynamic business and logistics technology landscape. Opting for SAP EWM signifies investing in the future and mitigating the risk of losing market relevance due to outdated capabilities.
Beyond the core SAP EWM solutions, the incorporation of integrative and supplementary solutions can propel digital advancement. For instance, integrating SAP Digital Manufacturing with SAP EWM streamlines production integration, fostering enhanced transparency via synchronized bookings. Furthermore, leveraging robotics in warehouse operations, exemplified by Camelot’s partner Mobile Industrial Robots (MIR), ensures efficient, automated, and seamless task execution. Camelot provides comprehensive support in implementing SAP EWM for your current processes while incorporating future requirements like advanced warehouse automation. We collaborate with you to devise a roadmap for a robust yet flexible warehouse management system, ensuring your operations remain agile amidst evolving demands.
SAP TM Success Story: System Implementation in Just 6 Weeks
Sustainable Growth for DIY Retailer Hornbach by Focused SAP TM Implementation
Around 5.12 billion € in revenue, 23.000 employees, and a big goal achieved: Hornbach has ensured long-term customer satisfaction through the performance of its online shopping offer and punctual delivery of orders.
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
A Software Solution to Optimize Transportation Logistics
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) is a comprehensive transportation management system that helps companies manage their entire transportation process, including planning, optimization, freight tendering, and charge management. It is a state-of-the-art, integrated digital logistics solution that covers all modes of transport (air, ocean, rail, and road) and is designed to cater to the needs of both the demand side (shippers/manufacturers) and the supply side (carriers/LSPs/freight forwarders/3PLs) of the transportation industry.
SAP TM automates transportation tasks, optimizes routes, tracks shipments, generates documents/invoices, and integrates with SAP ERP systems, like SAP S/4HANA. Its key features include freight management, planning, optimization, document management, and analytics.
Success Story: SAP TM Supports Growth
How Raiffeisen Became a Digital Logistics Company
SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace (SAP BNGTT)
Improving Supply Chain Control through Increased Visibility
SAP BNGTT represents SAP’s next-generation visibility & tracking logistics solution, supplanting the legacy SAP EM (Event Management). This strategic shift underscores SAP’s commitment to contemporary practices, emphasizing interconnectivity across supply chain operations for agile, efficient, and resilient supply chain management. Leveraging a vast network of logistics service providers (LSPs) and other platform solutions (“network of the networks”), SAP BNGTT delivers real-time tracking and milestone monitoring, seamlessly integrating all logistics-related entities for customized end-to-end visibility aligned with your specific needs.
Assessing the Real Benefits of Visibility
The SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace solution offers highly adaptable design configurations. It enables tracking of sales orders, purchase orders, or shipments down to the item level, with seamless integration across different elements of your supply chain. However, this adaptability necessitates meticulous customization of the solution design to align precisely with your unique needs. Leveraging Camelot’s expertise in visibility assessment, we assist you in transforming visibility into actionable control, providing a robust foundation for informed decision-making in your logistics business operations.
Real-Time Insights with Visibility Providers
Logistics visibility is limited by the data accessible through your carriers. Integrating numerous carriers with varying IT capabilities can be a time-consuming endeavor. However, SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace offers a solution. By leveraging this platform, you can seamlessly connect with visibility providers spanning a vast array of carriers. Camelot facilitates the integration of diverse visibility providers into your SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace through our specialized expertise, executing efficient projects tailored to your needs.
Improve Your Customer Satisfaction with New Services
In today’s business landscape, customers expect proactive communication and swift resolution of issues. The integrated event-to-action functionality within SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace empowers you to automatically relay pertinent information to your customers in real-time and provide actionable solutions via logistics automation. For instance, in the event of a shipment delay, the system can swiftly identify the issue, arrange alternative transportation, and promptly notify the customer of the updated delivery schedule. Camelot collaborates with your team to define and implement business rules within SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace, ensuring seamless process optimization and superior customer support.
Digital Logistics Insights
HORNBACH | Sustainable Growth for DIY Retailer by Focused SAP TM Implementation
Revolutionizing route planning with SAP TM
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Best practices for successful SAP transport management (SAP TM)
SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration
Collaboration as a Success Factor in Digital Logistics
The SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration functions as a pivotal integration platform bridging your in-house transportation management system with your network of carriers. Facilitating seamless and timely data and document exchange, it lays the foundation for automated, optimized, and efficient logistics processes that extend beyond your organizational borders.
Paperless und Contactless Transportation Freight Settlement
SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration serves as a streamlined portal connecting you with your carriers, facilitating seamless communication via transport documents without the need for manual intervention. Particularly in freight cost settlement and dispute management, processes are still dominated by email and phone calls. Through SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration, confirmations and changes are seamlessly transmitted among stakeholders, ensuring that associated documents and transport records are automatically updated. This transparency and efficiency in the logistics process are paramount.
Leveraging Camelot’s extensive expertise in freight settlement within the transportation management framework, you can confidently address all aspects of freight settlement within SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration, covering all potential scenarios.
Reduce Disruptions with Dock Appointment Scheduling Management
Efficiently coordinating deliveries and collections at your docks often involves significant manual effort in gathering and disseminating information from various stakeholders. Even after meticulous planning, deviations from schedules are common occurrences, ranging from early arrivals to delays or even carriers failing to appear. Such disruptions not only cause inconvenience but also disrupt upstream and downstream processes, such as those in the warehouse.
To streamline these operations, SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration offers dock appointment scheduling functionality, automating these processes. Through direct communication with carriers, the system manages confirmations, cancellations, and rescheduling, seamlessly integrating this information into your transportation documents. Camelot provides expert guidance on selecting and implementing the appropriate functionalities within this feature, ensuring your digital logistics processes are equipped with accurate and timely information.
Manage Gate Operations
Tracking the arrival, duration of stay, departure, and associated transport requests of trucks at your yard is crucial for efficient gate operations. However, these tasks are often managed manually using paper-based systems.
With the Gate Operations Management functionality within the SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration module, you can automate these processes seamlessly, directly linking them with your transport documents. This automation enables real-time transfer of information to and from transport documents, allowing for the recording of unannounced truck arrivals in the gate log and facilitating subsequent processes such as loading without the need for manual intervention.
Camelot offers expertise in harnessing the full potential of this application, particularly when integrated with dock appointment scheduling, to optimize your transport processing operations.
Our digital logistics consultants ensure that SAP Yard Logistics improves the utilization of your existing resources such as trucks, locomotives, and loading ramps. This minimizes idle time, avoids temporary storage and eliminates wasteful movements – reducing your operating costs.
Camelot’s implementation of SAP Yard Logistics significantly reduces processing times for gate-in and gate-out activities by automating processes and enabling self-service capabilities. This increases throughput capacity in the yard while minimizing the need for additional staff.
With Camelot’s expertise, the advanced visualization tools of SAP Yard Logistics give you real-time 3D visibility of all activities on the yard. This enables proactive identification of issues, rapid resolution, and improved customer service in your operation.
We seamlessly integrate SAP Yard Logistics into your existing SAP landscape, including Transportation Management (SAP TM), Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), and more. This enables true end-to-end supply chain visibility, optimization, and collaboration.
SAP Yard Logistics (SAP YL)
Transforming Yard Operations with SAP Yard Logistics
SAP Yard Logistics is a comprehensive solution that digitally transforms and optimizes yard logistics processes across different types of sites. It provides real-time 3D visibility, enables automation of gate processes and yard movements, supports berth planning and optimization, enables integration with IoT devices and mobile apps, facilitates communication between yard transport and warehouse loading location data, offers multi-level loading capabilities, provides planning capabilities and integrates with other solutions such as SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM).
Maximize Your Potential: Logistics Partner Solutions for Seamless Business Integration
Strengthening Companies with the Right Mix of Logistics Solutions
Camelot is partnering with a wide range of logistics solution providers to offer our clients the specific solution stack that will bring their supply chain digital transformation forward.
The following logistics solutions address today’s challenges, e.g., by providing insights into transportation networks or enabling companies to anticipate and proactively mitigate risks. Through seamless integration with various TM systems, they can streamline operations, reduce costs, and increase efficiency from planning to execution.
Everstream Analytics
Everstream Analytics provides unprecedented risk management and visibility throughout the supply chain, starting with the planning phase itself. By using real-time data and predictive analytics, companies gain insights to de-risk their processes right from the start and, for example, compare the reliability of transport carriers or routes in advance before shipping. By using the Camelot integration solution between Everstream Analytics and SAP TM, risk management is seamlessly integrated in planning and execution monitoring, enabling companies to make informed decisions, optimize logistics, and increase efficiency from planning to execution.
Logward
Logward offers a supply chain orchestration platform and services to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and gain better visibility and management over logistics operations. This gives customers end-to-end visibility and control over their shipments. The highly configurable no-code platform, which adapts to customer requirements, allows a quick and resource-efficient implementation for relevant use cases along the end-to-end transport management process. This platform can be implemented as a full-fledged transport management solution or easily combined with other TM systems to extend specific functionality, such as ocean freight allocation management.
Project 44
project44 is a leading real-time transportation visibility platform that integrates with carriers across all major modes. Its cloud-based Movement platform tracks shipments in real-time, providing data on location, ETAs, delays, and logistics events. project44 enables proactive exception management, analytics, and reporting to optimize routing, find capacity, benchmark carriers, and drive supply chain efficiencies. It aims to increase on-time deliveries, reduce expedited shipping costs, optimize inventory, and enhance customer satisfaction through improved visibility.
Shippeo
Shippeo is a global leader in real-time multimodal supply chain visibility. Its platform collects accurate data from GPS, telematics, and carriers to provide shippers with instant visibility into shipment locations and ETAs. Shippeo’s key differentiator is its machine learning capabilities that generate reliable predictive ETAs, allowing proactive identification and management of potential disruptions. The platform enables proactive customer communication and emphasizes data privacy, security, and GDPR compliance.
Shipcloud
Shipcloud is a shipping platform that provides a unified interface to connect with multiple parcel carriers like DHL, UPS, DPD, and many more. It enables online retailers and fulfillment services to streamline operations by automating label generation, shipment tracking, and returns management across carriers from a single integrated solution. Shipcloud offers access to negotiated carrier rates, easy integration with e-commerce systems, and features like customizable tracking pages and cross-border shipping capabilities.
Kinaxis
Kinaxis offers a transportation management system (TMS) solution designed to enhance logistics and transportation operations, closely integrated with their supply chain planning solution. Their TMS uses real-time data and analytics to improve visibility, optimize routes, and manage carriers efficiently. This helps reduce operational costs and improve delivery reliability. Kinaxis’s solutions support better decision-making and enable businesses to respond quickly to market changes, ensuring effective transportation management across the supply chain.
Alpega
Alpega delivers robust Transportation Management System (TMS) solutions aimed at optimizing logistics and transportation workflows. Their TMS leverages real-time data and sophisticated analytics to improve visibility, enhance route planning, and manage carriers effectively. This approach helps lower operational costs and increase delivery reliability. Alpega’s solutions facilitate informed decision-making and allow businesses to adapt quickly to market fluctuations, ensuring efficient transportation management throughout the supply chain. In addition to a comprehensive and independent transport management solution, Alpega also offers unique value–adding features, like a large carrier collaboration network, a robust slot booking solution, and returnable packaging management functionality – all of which can also be implemented in combination with other TMS solutions.
Elixum
Elixum presents dynamic Logistics Planning solutions tailored to streamline supply chain operations. Elixum is combining supply chain execution information with supply chain planning processes. Elxium allows, for example, to create early strategic and tactical logistics forecasts, based on supply chain planning information or to consider logistics constraints and events in supply chain planning decisions. Their comprehensive approach integrates cutting-edge technology with insightful analytics to optimize route planning, resource allocation, and inventory management. By harnessing real-time data, Elixum empowers businesses to enhance visibility, minimize costs, and improve delivery efficiency. Their solutions facilitate informed decision-making and agile responses to market demands, ensuring seamless logistics management across the supply chain.
Digital Logistics Consulting
Camelot streamlines logistics digitization with tailored solutions from top-tier providers like SAP. We guide you through selecting and implementing logistics software for efficiency and cost reduction. Our comprehensive approach ensures tangible results, empowering your journey towards enhanced performance.
