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Route and tour planning based on SAP SD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Major retail companies ship goods to their end customers from a central warehouse. In this procedure often \u2013 invisible to the end customer \u2013 a set of supply warehouses is involved. Though SAP can map the intermediate transport, planning and compilation of delivery tours however becomes so tedious in SAP standard that it is often not used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clavis has developed a system based on SAP SD as part of a customer project that supports route planning by a comfortable cockpit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Initial Situation: Intermediate transports with paper handling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before introducing the new route planning, our customer did not use the SAP standard and thus did not map the allocation to supply plant and shipping point via transfer orders in SAP. The allocation of a supplier plant and a shipping point could not be mapped into SAP by stock transport orders. Instead of using SAP the customer therefore managed its intermediary transport by paperwork. In the delivering plant delivery notes were presorted into storage bins and subsequently assigned to routes. Delivery note numbers are entered into an Excel sheet that was printed together with the delivery notes for the loading of the truck and the delivery to the customer. At completion of the tour the delivery notes were verified at the shipping point and posted as goods issues.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Automated route planning with the easy-to-use cockpit from clavis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the project was to automate the route planning and to integrate the complete process into SAP. Thus, a transparency of shipments should be established: which delivery is part of which transport and when do goods arrive at the end customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here an intuitive cockpit guides through the planning process:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n