Transportation & Logistics

Get real-time insights into your supply chain, identify bottlenecks, and mitigate risks as they arise with logistic management system from SAP.

Fuel fast, responsive, and agile supply chain logistics management

Get real-time insights into your supply chain, identify bottlenecks, and mitigate risks as they arise with logistic management system from SAP.

Tips and Trick

How to do disruptive transformation is changing the liner shipping industry?

Pain Point

The liner shipping industry is faced with new challenges:

Customers want a consistent customer experience but also unique and configurable offerings
Volatile market pressures exist, such as global economy and fuel prices
Data volume is exploding, but existing systems cannot leverage it
Seamless network connectivity is a must for efficiency gains and speed to market
Business process flows are disjointed across disparate systems landscapes

Solution

To transform, businesses must pursue strategic priorities:

Allow for smart optimization of assets with substantial cost savings and increased customer service levels
Provide a consistent 360-degree customer view by eliminating siloed operations and communication
Manage the huge amounts of data from networks, sensors, partners, and customers to provide real-time information, improve customer interaction, and help drive revenue
Manage from a global core technology platform while driving additional value with industry-focused cloud solutions

Strategic Priorities

Select a below to see strategic priority for your core/cross enterprise and it solution feature that can help your companies grow in these challenging times.

Core Enterprise

Commercials

“Ensure consistent contract and revenue management”

Customers rely on transportation companies to be reliable and consistent. This holds also true for the commercial aspects of a transportation service. Therefore, transportation companies need to make sure their products, rates and contracts are consistent with what will be invoiced.

Solution features:

Quote-to-Contract
Billing and Revenue Management
Profitability Management

Digital Supply Chain

“Improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction by enhancing processes while expanding service offerings”

Integrate your entire order lifecycle with SAP software for cargo operations to gain a 360-degree view of your customer throughout the organization. Have access to timely, accurate information, and enable precision in service delivery to meet customer demands. Benefit from fewer disputes and improved days sales outstanding.

Solution features:

Order-to-Cash
Transportation & Logistics
Transportation Resource Planning

Asset Management

“Run operations, reduce costs, and proactively manage the entire lifecycle of your assets to ensure availability”

Reduce costs, start with the right data entered at the beginning of the asset lifecycle, and optimize the return on assets for your asset-intensive operation with SAP software for asset management. Arm yourself with integrated business planning, portfolio prioritization and governance, and capital project management, all augmented with asset information management, visibility, and control.

Solution features:

Capital Portfolio and Project Management
Infrastructure, Fleet, Equipment Management
Real Estate
Environment, Health and Safety Management

Cross Enterprise

Commerce and Sales

“Understand your customer’s profile and ensure an end to end experience”

Whether shipping a single load, several containers or commodities in bulk for your customers, understanding their profile is key to your engagement with them. With knowledge about their operation (loading times, lanes, service levels, commodities, equipment, contracts, etc.) you can tailor the end to end customer experience appropriately and ensure you delight the customers with each order.

Solution features:

Omnichannel Commerce Management
Sales Performance Management

Finances

“Transforming Finance for a Digital World”

Robust finance processes allow between stakeholders to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to outperform beyond the expectations.

Solution features:

Invoice-to-Pay & Invoice-to-Cash
Financial Planning and Analysis
Travel-to-Reimburse
Treasury Management
Real Estate
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Human Resources

“Manage performance of human capital”

Increase employee and customer satisfaction and improve business performance by providing a choice in the delivery of HR processes and services.

Solution features:

Core Human Resources and Service Delivery
Talent Management, Learning and Acquisition
Employee Experience Management
Payroll and Time & Attendance Management
People Analytics

Marketing and Services

“Provide a consistent and personalized customer experience”

Enhance your omnichannel marketing for cargo transportation by unifying all customer and market data into one single view. Engage customers seamlessly through personalized interactions in every interaction channel. Get consistent, innovative experiences that transform customers into loyal brand advocates.

Solution features:

Customer Experience Management
Single Customer View
Consent-Based Marketing
Optimized Marketing
Omnichannel Service Excellence

Sourcing and Procurement

“Procurement Excellence make business more resilience”

Today’s procurement professionals are bombarded with increasingly complex challenges. They need to manage global supply risk and protect profitability – despite volatile pricing in many supply markets – and contribute new innovations to the business. These are just a few examples of the imperatives they face.

Solution features: