Supply chain logistics

Manage goods efficiently across warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution with our supply chain logistics management software.
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Fueling resilient and sustainable supply chain logistics management

With cloud logistics management solutions from SAP, you can get real-time insights into your supply chain, identify bottlenecks, and mitigate risks as they arise.

Optimize global logistics processes

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

Get real-time insights into logistics execution

Improve data visualization 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.

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

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

Outbound logistics management Enable warehouse order optimization, wave management, packing control, and process monitoring.

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Strategic freight management Optimize freight procurement for multiple modes by using a sophisticated transportation management system.

Order management Minimize freight costs and enhance customer service with more efficient order and process management.

Transportation planning Lower transportation costs and achieve on-time delivery with automated planning processes and integrated business views.

Transportation execution Run your logistics faster, more dynamically, and more responsively with improved cargo handling and reduced costs.

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Order and appointment planning Integrate and automate resource use, incoming and outgoing transport, and gate-in and gate-out processes.

Yard execution and processing Deliver products and services faster and improve service with enhanced visibility, control, and mobile planning capabilities.

Integration and monitoring Use comprehensive graphical monitoring to identify, avoid, and solve potential issues with insight.

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Streamlined carrier collaboration

  • Win with a global, multimodal carrier and service provider network

  • Gain real-time transparency into competitive market prices and carrier performance

  • Enable digitalized transacting, collaboration, and shipment tracking

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Insight into order fulfillment and goods in transit

  • View purchase order, freight order, and sales order shipment tracking in real time

  • Enable predictive monitoring of milestones and arrival across global, multimodal transport

  • Get exception alerts on delays and impacts to customers or production

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Digitalizing logistics for greater resilience

Manage risk and improve efficiency while achieving sustainability goals, from order promising to collaboration with partners.

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Scaling up while maintaining quality

Learn how Dis-Chem navigates expansion with SAP Extended Warehouse Management.

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Optimize logistics for greater resilience

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

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Resources

Supply chain logistics overview

Get an overview of supply chain logistics management software and learn how it helps make your supply chain more resilient.

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Three use cases for SAP Business AI and RISE with SAP

See how AI impacts the end-to-end process flow in a typical day for a sales representative, a sales manager, and a transportation planner.

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Get delivery right with a digital supply chain

The best product is worthless if it doesn’t arrive. See how a digital supply chain can help ensure accurate, on-time deliveries.

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A resilient supply chain from design to operate

The most valuable thing a supply chain can offer is resiliency. See how technology can help you become more agile and sustainable.

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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 utilization 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, optimizing, 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, optimizing labor, storage, and fulfillment 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. Analyze: Achieve situational awareness of global supply chain movements and understand risks and performance to gain in-depth business insights for effective decision-making