Digital Supply Chain Management
Automate your logistics for the future
Digitalisation opens up extensive opportunities for companies to grow and transform their logistics and delivery processes into real competitive features with new services, value-adding business models and scalable IT platforms. KPS offers a unique combination of strategic consulting and the highest level of implementation expertise – ready to use!
Automate your logistics for the future
Environmental and sustainability aspects in particular, but also demographic change or trends such as personalised products present new challenges in supply chain management. At the same time, digitalisation opens up new opportunities.
Self-driving vehicles, raw pipeline systems covering the last mile, automated loading and unloading in ports and postal distribution centres, self-learning algorithms and sensors that autonomously control spare parts procurement in the smart factory, constant monitoring and flexible adaptation of delivery routes or alternative drives – the individual competences in these areas and the ability to react flexibly will play an essential role in a company’s competitiveness in the future.
What’s more, these competences and skills make it possible to create and establish real unique selling points with new services and business models.
The decisive entrepreneurial challenge lies in the transformation of the silo structure of today’s supply chains – characterised by fixed delivery schedules, analogue communication channels, lack of visibility of free capacities, limited scaling options and high capital commitment – to flexible network structures of a digital and smart supply chain, which are defined by six target characteristics.
Target characteristics of the supply chain
- Multi-partner platform model
- Information and capacity sharing
- Collaborative warehouse structures
- Dynamic transport management
- Demand-flexible scaling of the supply chain
- Digitalisation and automation as efficiency keys
Designing sustainable logistics networks
Digital distribution channels require an increased focus on last mile and parcel delivery. Regulatory requirements for sustainability goals intensify the trade-off between cost efficiency and delivery quality. In addition, corporate acquisitions and disposals are changing the flow of goods. How can established logistics networks now make their value contribution as a successful value creation factor?
Supply Chain Network Design
Develop the best strategy with us on our basis of selected scenario models.
In an interactive format, we develop a tangible vision from different perspectives with an action-guiding strategy framework, which we evaluate using selected scenario models. Together with us, you will find the most viable target concept for a transformation project that is ready for implementation, resulting in an optimal value proposition for your future logistics network.
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KPS combines practical know-how with SAP solutions to make an impact to your supply chain and warehouse
Data lies at the beginning of any efforts to optimise business performance and processes. That is also where our expertise begins. We utilise all available data in order to properly evaluate the necessity for our clients’ ERP integration.
The nature of warehouse operations has drastically changed and more and more processes are being introduced. To accommodate this, our warehouse experts have the know-how to implement easy to use SAP solutions that can help you to plan upfront your necessary workforce per warehouse area.
SAP Extended Warehouse Management
provides you with the ability to manage all processes in a warehouse, together with mitigating problems and issues with enhanced efficiency. It is a great tool for automated supply chain management and for processing goods movements and managing inventory in the warehouse.
SAP Transportation Management
helps manage your transportation and logistics planning. Planning your inbound and outbound transport in TM can start at your vendor’s door and it is easily integrated with the SAP ERP and is great for customers that want to minimize risk factors throughout their supply chain.
SAP Yard Logistics
is the link between getting your products out of the warehouse and into their appointed vehicles, ready to be transported and shipped. It will reduces manual efforts in yard operations and helps manage your employees’ activity efficiently through friendly mobile user interface.
Manufacturing Execution System Integration
is used to manage production orders, processing data, work instructions storage and all other materials that are needed to have full visibility of manufacturing processes.
SAP Logistics Business Network
allows you to collaborate with and easily onboard stakeholders on an open network that we can easily integrate with your logistics and business processes. The key benefits of this integration lie in improving efficiency of logistics processes and easing decision-making across different roles in your organization. At KPS we can help you apply common communication standards and digitalize them across your network.
Clear guidelines, early information and transparency
Information and transparency about all orders in real time ensure the successful interaction of all participants in the digital supply chain.
What our latest app offers you
Put an end to delays, dissatisfied customers and lost sales. KPS ARRIVE connects shippers, transport service providers and drivers on a shared digital platform. It provides all players with up-to-date data in real time and creates maximum transparency. Optimised routes and online traffic integration, transparent delivery times and freight costs, loading to the second and efficient staff deployment. Can be integrated into SAP S/4HANA, EWM, GTS, EM and SAP TM.
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Acceleration of multimodal transport
Multimodal transport is the transport concept of the future – modern, efficient and sustainable. In order to unlock this enormous growth potential on the business side, Hamburger Hafen & Logistik AG wants to pursue new avenues beyond the mere management of transport networks. The strategy consultancy Infront, together with the consultants from its parent company KPS, has devised and realised a new business model of an innovative and open-supplier mediation and booking platform called Modility. The platform brings together providers and potential buyers of transport services in intermodal transport quickly and easily via an online portal.
User-friendly platform with great business potential
The start-up Modility offers an open-supplier mediation and booking platform. Modility brings transport service providers and customers in combined transport together easily and quickly via the online portal. This greatly facilitates communication between the stakeholders and paves the way for more efficient, low-emission and sustainable transport concepts.
Modility acts as a neutral intermediary and does not assume any transport responsibility. Nevertheless, all information on capacities and prices can be viewed in real time.
Users can post or book offers on the platform with just three clicks. Thanks to its independence, the solution represents and reaches the entire market. In a first project step, the platform addressed Europe-wide, continental and maritime intermodal transport.
Case Study Modility
In 4 steps to the intelligent supply chain with KPS
Intelligently optimising and tracking all transports, flexibly adjusting warehouse capacities at any time, sustainably dynamising supply chains, profitably marketing own competencies and capacities with the sharing approach – with the SCM modules from KPS, the transformation succeeds quickly, in a tangible way and differentiating.
SCM Health Check
Identify concrete strengths and weaknesses
KPI-based analysis and comparison with industry best practices and KPS database help to identify the potential for optimisation in strategy, operations and technologies.
SCM Potential Development
Derivation and prioritisation of options for action
Overall view of the supply chain from three different perspectives, which can be combined in a modular way, as well as the development of the company -specific and differentiating options for action.
SCM Implementation Roadmap
Development of the concrete implementation plan
Evaluation of the identified options for action with regard to feasibility, economic efficiency and benefits for the company and its customers. Create a roadmap for the implementation of selected initiatives.
SCM Holistic Transformation
Fast and secure end-to-end transformation
The cross-divisional implementation supports the selected options on the product that can be experienced immediately, accelerated by our ready-to-use methods and sector-specific best practice processes from IT and process transformation.
Learn more about artificial intelligence as a value lever in the supply chain
Blog post
AI in the supply chain for sustainable competitive advantage
Is artificial intelligence (AI) really capable of serving as a sustainable problem solver of a complex adaptive system like the supply chain? Self-thinking and self-learning AI-powered autonomous agents are expected to make rational-based decisions that pursue the economic interests of the supply chain.
Blog post
Artificial intelligence as a supply chain value lever
AI can process a multitude of external and internal data and trigger error-free decisions based on it. AI enables smooth operations at all nodes of the supply chain and is able to orchestrate and automate the cooperation between logistics and production.
Blog post
Increase EBIT in retail with AI-supported demand planning
Supply chains are often not robust enough or break down again and again, employees in logistics drop out. Ultimately, goods are not available and turnover is lost. At the same time, consumers increasingly value security of supply, coupled with flexibility and a favourable price. AI-based solutions help companies to forecast demand more accurately, to have goods available precisely and thus to increase EBIT.
