Industry Value Network Group For Logistics Service Providers
Solutions and Services
To ease the burden of managing their complex logistics and supply chain activities, many companies are turning to business process outsourcing (BPO). And no one industry is better positioned to take advantage of BPO growth trends than logistics service providers (LSPs).
But as BPO trends expand to include demands for fully outsourced supply chains, your core LSP business boundaries will also expand. And only solutions that cover a broad range of managed services – transportation, inventory, finance, and customer service, to name a few – will help you keep pace.
And because getting the most out of your assets – whether aircraft, truck, or train – is critical to your bottom-line performance, solutions that enable full asset lifecycle management are also imperative.
Partner members of the Industry Value Network group for logistics service providers are collaborating and co-innovating with SAP to deliver solutions that will:
- Enable you to satisfy today's demands
- Ensure the business network transformation necessary to support the broad functional scope you need in order to gain tomorrow's competitive edge
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Axon and SAP are working together to provide a range of specialized solutions for organizations in the travel and logistics services industry. Axon's industry experience combined with SAP expertise supports the development of solutions that can address industry-specific requirements, including:
- Complex maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO)
- Fleet and asset management
- Workforce management
- Regulatory compliance
- Supply chain event management (SCEM) and transport management system (TMS)
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Scflex
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Scflex is an SAP-certified warehouse management (WMS) solution that provides advanced, innovative functionality for LSPs servicing various industry segments, including retail, food and beverage, consumer goods, and electronics. It integrates seamlessly with the SAP landscape under the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.
The solution integrates SAP order and inventory management and financials functionality with Softeon WMS functionality specific to LSPs. Rapid rollout, an advanced 3PL billing engine that integrates with SAP financials functionality and a templated approach for handling industry-specific transactions are among the key solution benefits. Scflex ensures significant reduction in business costs and improved operational performance, from receiving to shipping.
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SAP and Capgemini have forged a strategic alliance to address the business needs of the LSP industry now and in the future. Both companies possess a wealth of knowledge about the needs of LSPs and have extensive experience in delivering business benefits and driving continuous innovation in the global industry market.
Demonstration of this ability is reflected in Capgemini's development of a preconfigured warehouse management system and warehouse billing engine based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.
Capgemini is also an SAP-preferred system integrator for the LSP industry.
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Cognizant, a leading global provider of IT and business process, is a key partner of SAP for transportation management solutions. As an SAP partner, specifically for transportation management solutions, Cognizant contributes its expertise in various segments of the transportation industry, including road, marine, freight forwarding, and express, to develop and implement industry-leading best practices and processes.
Cognizant's scientifically designed program, Transforming while Performing (TwP), provides a roadmap and business case for customers looking to modernize their IT environment by adopting an SAP-centric landscape. Cognizant also creates composite applications to enhance the functional richness of SAP's transportation management solutions and to address specialized customer needs.
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SAP and Telargo provide innovative functionalities for the transportation and postal industry segments. These functionalities are integrated into SAP ERP to provide a complete end-to-end solution for transportation management.
The solution integrates order management, planning, and financial functionalities (from SAP) with mobile functionalities (from Telargo). The combination of GPS, wireless communication, digital mapping, and hosted applications facilitate online interaction with vehicle fleets, work process automation, in-depth analysis, and more – ensuring significant reduction in business costs and improved decision management.
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The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working with SAP to advance the enterprise services-oriented architecture paradigm for logistics services providers and to develop innovative concepts for optimizing lean supply chains.
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More Information
You can look up additional information about an SAP partner or a partner solution in the partner directory.
To find out more about SAP's offering for the travel and logistics services industry and how SAP solutions can support your business processes, see the SAP Business Maps for Travel and Logistics Services.