Supply chain logistics

Manage goods efficiently across warehousing, fulfilment, and distribution with our supply chain logistics management software.
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Drive orchestrated and resilient logistics operations

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Manage logistics end to end

Improve logistics responsiveness and sustainability while enhancing customer service through a platform that connects seamlessly to automation, devices, and partners.

Optimise global logistics processes

Digitalise and synchronise all your business processes and deliver deep, real-time process integration across manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and fulfilment to help ensure high accuracy and short, swift delivery times.

Get real-time insights into logistics execution

Improve data visualisation for supply chain users by applying different visual options and empowering them with an instant, comprehensible overview of their logistics processes. In this way, you can increase contextual awareness and support the proper handling of supply chain risks and disruptions.

Improve operational responsiveness

Collaborate with your ecosystem and connect business partners with your global logistical processes across multiple modes of transport.

Explore sustainable supply chain logistics management solutions from SAP

Inbound logistics management
Streamline advanced shipment notification, yard management, inbound optimisation, and quality management.

 

Storage and operations
Manage physical inventory, AI-driven replenishment slotting and rearrangement, and value-added services.

 

Outbound logistics management
Enable warehouse order optimisation, wave management, packing control, process monitoring, and AI-assisted labour demand planning.

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SAP named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Learn why SAP was recognised as a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems for our ability to execute and completeness of vision.1

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Transforming the modern WMS landscape

See why Gartner® named SAP in its Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems.2

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REPORT
Supply chain logistics maturity model

Apply a supply chain logistics maturity model to help assess your capabilities in transportation management, carrier collaboration, and supply chain orchestration.

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Guiding optimal supply chain performance with AI

Learn how organisations can address pressing challenges by integrating analytics to improve asset and resource management.

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Scaling up while maintaining quality

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Optimise logistics for greater resilience

Learn how better logistics can help you mitigate risks and enhance efficiency while reducing emissions and minimising waste.

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Frequently asked questions

There are many types of logistics. SAP solutions cover the following types of logistics:

  • Procurement logistics is the flow of raw materials and components needed to manufacture or redistribute products.

  • Production logistics is the flow of materials inside a factory or shipping facility.

  • Intralogistics involves the internal movements between factories or plants.

  • Distribution logistics includes distribution from a manufacturing facility through warehouses to wholesalers, retailers, and consumers.

  • Return logistics includes the distribution of surplus items back to the source or the return of products back from customers to sellers.

  • Recovery/recycling logistics involves recovering and recycling products, containers, and packaging material with the objective of improving asset utilisation and sustainability.

Logistics management plays a key role in supply chain management by ensuring that goods and services are efficiently transported from the point of origin to the point of consumption, or in reverse as required in the case of product returns. This involves planning and coordinating various activities such as transportation, warehousing, inventory management, and information management. Supply chain logistics solutions support processes that extend across receiving, storage, distribution of goods, and the analysis of performance and contextual data.

Logistics management is broad and is the umbrella for all the logistics functions, including freight management, warehouse management, transportation management, and inventory management. Transportation management is the part of logistics management that specifically focuses on planning, optimising, and executing the physical movement of goods between locations.

In logistics, deliver involves the following activities:

  1. Receive: Streamline the receipt of goods from manufacturers, suppliers, and customers (returns) with visibility into inbound shipments from point of origin
  2. Store: Manage inventory flow from the receiving dock to the point of goods issue, optimising labour, storage, and fulfilment costs, and providing value-added services
  3. Distribute: Plan, execute, and monitor the movement of goods from production to the point of sale and deliver the right goods to the right customer at the right time
  4. Analyse: Achieve situational awareness of global supply chain movements and understand risks and performance to gain in-depth business insights for effective decision-making

1. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manay Jain, 24 March 2025.

 

2. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, Federica Stufano, 1 May 2025.

 

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