SAP Logistics Specialists

Mobile solutions help fuel business growth and increase profitability.We are all becoming increasingly accustomed to using mobile devices in both our personal and professional lives and this trend continues at an incredibly fast pace. It is estimated that mobile usage now represents 65 percent of digital media time, whilst the desktop is becoming a “secondary touch point” for an increasing number of digital users.

The need for efficiency is paramount and, for businesses to ensure future growth, mobile solutions are an essential prerequisite for supply chain, logistics and transportation, as they offer benefits that the desktop simply cannot compete with.

Organisations must deal with more orders and an increasing number of SKUs and product ranges in order to meet the ever-growing consumer demand. This leads to more returns processing, which is itself put under increasing pressure as customer expectations affect delivery timescales. Next day is fast becoming not fast enough and organisations are being put under continued pressure to reduce order-processing times and shorten delivery timeframes.

On top of this, an ever more diverse range of delivery options, such as collect from store and store to home, means that logistics management must continually evolve in order to ensure that the consumer does not receive late, damaged or incorrect orders. In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, the choices available to the customer are seemingly endless and there is no tolerance for an organization that fails to deliver on its promises.

To meet these promises and provide brands with protection from theft and fraud, real-time tracking and traceability in the supply chain has never been so important. Added to this, the peaks and troughs of an ever-more demanding marketplace means that a flexible workforce and tight inventory management are crucial for the modern supply chain.

Increased transportation, labour and warehousing costs mean that warehouse operations must adapt quickly and continuously, in order to streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce costs to the customer.

1. Meeting the challenges of the modern warehouse

Mobile solutions in the warehouse can have a dramatic impact on productivity and, as the mobile trend continues to dominate, mobility in the warehouse is quickly becoming an opportunity for businesses of all shapes and sizes to improve performance.

In order to meet the unprecedented challenges posed by the continued growth of e-commerce, organisations are continually looking to improve the performance of their warehouse within the entire supply chain process, aiming to deliver a seamless customer experience.

However, meeting this challenge becomes an increasingly complex problem, with the increased demands put on the supply chain due to the ever-growing expectations of the customer.

Meeting the demands of the customer

The improved accuracy required to deliver orders on time, every time demands complete, end to end visibility across every stage of the supply chain process. At the heart of this visibility is inventory – the most crucial component of the process, which can make or break the online retail experience for the consumer.

New labelling innovations – such as RFID and smart sensors – give physical items a digital footprint, which can be read by mobile or even wearable devices utilised by warehouse workers. The data is then sent to the Warehouse Management System to give real-time insight for efficient tracking and processing of items in the warehouse and beyond.

These mobile technologies are being employed to capture and verify inventory in order to accurately fulfil customer orders. This flawless fulfilment turns stock into revenue and resolves inefficiencies throughout the supply chain to ensure products are available where and when they are needed.

Unprecedented insight into customer demand, through fast access to data, helps to reduce working capital expenditure and improves business planning and forecasting. Improving warehouse operations and visibility, in turn, enables managers to optimise performance in order to meet the demands experienced by the modern supply chain.

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Evolving warehouse locations and environment

The changing location, layout and size of the modern warehouse are also having a dramatic effect on organisations’ supply chain strategies. Location choice is being driven by a need for closer proximity to customers, in order to meet shorter delivery timescales and reduce transportation costs.

Companies are carefully evaluating their operations based on transportation costs and links, as well as throughput and storage capacity needs, access to labour and an increased focus on sustainability. Different warehouse spaces demand new thinking, as well as more materials handling equipment and increasingly advanced systems for supply chain management and logistics planning.

Whether goods are inbound or outbound, the efficient movement of trailers is essential to business performance. The dynamic nature of the industry is forcing many organisations to reinvest on an almost continual basis, meaning that warehouse technology must provide a payback with months, not years.

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Equipping an increasingly skilled workforce

Recruiting and retaining good quality, skilled staff has always been a challenge for the warehouse and logistics sector. However, there is now a dramatic rise in the number of tech-savvy workers coming into the industry and this workforce will not respond well to outdated systems, but will quickly embrace mobile technologies that improve their day-to-day performance and engagement.

Equipping this workforce with the innovative technologies designed to support the modern warehouse will help the sector recruit and retain skilled workers. In addition, the familiarity of mobile devices, operating systems and wearable technology, can massively reduce training times.

With more a more tech savvy workers joining the warehousing and logistics sector, there is a massive opportunity for organisations to connect with the role of mobile and digital technologies within the warehouse.

Empowering employees with the right tools to handle increases in throughput and order complexity and navigate the changing warehouse space will enable organisations to operate efficiently and meet the challenges of the sector.

2. Increased efficiency through mobility in the warehouse

The Config Team has worked with suppliers and logistics organisations around the world, helping them reconfigure their SAP supply chain systems into a mobile solution, in order to meet the demands of the modern warehouse.

Organisations require a flexible but yet stable SAP system in order to meet challenges such as:

EfficiencyFor optimal efficiency products must be available for delivery when and wherever they are required. The development of ‘just in time’ systems, and also demand for shorter delivery timescales means that organisations must now employ a more responsive supply chain.

Global ComplexitySuppliers and manufacturers must contend with a global supply chain footprint spanning multiple time zones and dozens of countries.

Supply Chain Logistics Suppliers and retailers all want to compete and grow market share by offering more delivery options, with shorter turnaround times. Meeting the promises of the e-commerce retailer demands improvements in supply chain logistics.

Large-Scale Data RequirementsThe computing power required to model the increased supply and demand across integrated supply chains is enormous, but the ability to scale is a critical capability to success.

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As well as dramatically improving productivity, providing better resource utilisation and increasing efficiency, mobility in the warehouse also offers a whole host of other benefits that impact on productivity and enhance user experience.

3. Why should mobility in the warehouse be a priority for your business?

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4. Movilizer for the modern warehouse

Movilizer from The Config Team lets you perform day-to-day stock management tasks, through hand-held mobile devices that integrate directly with SAP.

Movilizer is a leading Global Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), a Honeywell company that empowers businesses to realise their digital transformation and deploy agile strategies.

The key benefits include:

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The Config Team choose to develop solutions using the Movilizer platform as it delivers all the functionality needed for a fully integrated, end-to-end warehouse logistics solution, (including 3PLs) in a way that is easy for the operator to use. Movilizer is simple and intuitive, and is the ideal solution for rapid barcode scanning and data entry.

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Mobile solutions can help fuel business growth and increase profitability, allowing users to deal with more work in less time.

The Config Team has been providing SAP support to the logistics sector for a number of years and the Movilizer apps, which they build the mobility in the warehouse solutions around, are designed and built using years of expertise and knowledge in SAP logistics, which is provided by the functional and technical consultants within the team.

To find out how we can benefit you, get in touch. We’ll be happy to show you a demo.

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Increasing productivityMobile handsets increase productivity by reducing the time users need to move from station to station.

Decreasing date delaysConnected mobile devices do not waste time duplicating other’s efforts. Users have instant access to updated order status information and other information, for fast, accurate answers.

Monitoring performance, any time, anywhereInstead of walking to a computer terminal to enter information, users can enter it instantly wherever they are.

Providing real-time informationReal-time insights provide users with accurate inventory and order status information. There are no delays when answering custom queries, as users will always know if items are in stock.

Answering customer questionsReal-time data ensures that, no matter where users are in the warehouse, what they see on the system is the same as everyone else in the company sees. Therefore, they can answer questions promptly and with confidence.

Preventing wasted timeProviding users with helpful access to real-time statistics regarding the warehouse’s overall productivity prevents time being wasted whilst moving from bin to bin.

Using the power of SAP mobile solutions, Movilizer improves capacity planning, provides real-time, accurate stock information, reduces operating costs and helps to fuel sales increases.

This means you’ll always have your finger firmly on the pulse of your business.

Making job completion easierUsers can complete more jobs, easier and faster, as there is very little or even no data to enter manually. The less manual data entry there is, the better.

Finding inventory fastLocate bins, shelves, and other inventory locations quickly and easily. Users can save time searching for items and storage space, by accessing the information they need, when they need it.

Faster picking, packing and shippingWhen users know where inventory is located, they can pick, pack and ship faster. Less time wasted means more time to fulfil orders.

Avoiding data gapsMovilizer solutions help your warehouse run efficiently and seamlessly connect with your ERP to help your front and back offices view and access necessary, up-to-date information with no missing or delayed data.

Fuelling business growth and profitabilityMore work in less time fuels business growth and profitability. With the right data solutions and warehouse management options, your entire workforce can work faster and smarter, rather than harder, to increase profits.

“Since implementing Movilizer our new staff training time has gone from 4 days to 2 hours” (UK Automotive Movilizer Customer)