Today, dispatch processing determines your competitive advantage. SAP systems provide a solid foundation, but you quickly reach your limits when it comes to shipping processing. Do you recognize these 5 warning signs in your company?
Your employees maintain extensive Excel spreadsheets with packing plans, customer requirements, shipment status or quality protocols in parallel with SAP.
Excel lists clearly show that SAP cannot map the information you need.
The consequences affect you directly:
You employees compensate for the problems.
You do this every day:
Information is constantly moving back and forth manually between systems. Printouts serve as "bridges" between process steps.
Media disruptions not only cost time, but also create structural problems:
Modern shipping processes are largely automated. If your employees regularly transfer data manually between systems, you are wasting efficiency potential every day.
Every new customer requirement in shipping leads to complex adjustments or workarounds.
For electronic communication with customers, you need additional EDI converters or middleware solutions. SAP standards are not enough.
SAP standard transactions do not provide a sufficient overview of pending, ongoing and critical shipping processes.
Your SAP shipping processes are not reaching their full potential. Don't accept these problems as unavoidable - use them as an opportunity for optimization.
A systematic analysis of these pain points forms the basis for sustainable optimization of your shipping processes. Take both professional requirements and technical possibilities into account.
Delivery reliability is one of the key performance indicators for trading and manufacturing companies: Only if you supply your customers on time and in the right quantity will they be satisfied. What happens if you fail to do this? And how can you avoid the consequences? We explain this in this article.
Delivery bottlenecks are among the worst problems a company can have. If you can't deliver, you have to reckon with lost customers, declining profitability and, in the long term, employee turnover. What are the causes of delivery bottlenecks and how can they be avoided?
