Solution Know-how

We are always at the boundary of technology innovations.

We at Westernacher were one of the first consulting firms to specialize in SAP Transportation Management and implementation of this very recent SAP application. We consider ourselves technology pioneers in latest innovations. Key areas surrounding SAP Transportation Management which complement the IT solution and bring tremendous value to our customers are:

• SAP Fiori-based front-end for improved reporting and user experience
• SAP operational process intelligence to enable an operational control tower
• SAP Transportation Resource Planning (SAP TRP) to optimize transportation equipment and asset movements
• Mobile applications for operational users, reporting and monitoring
• SAP Collaboration Portal for carrier and partner interaction

Focus of our implementations are value and return on investment.

All implementations managed by us at Westernacher follow a strict value-based approach. We guide our customers to implement process standards and maximize the capabilities enabled by the SAP transportation solutions. We rigorously address any customization and add-on needs to ensure a clear cost/value ratio.

We solve complex solution architecture challenges to achieve an easy to maintain, connected and integrated system landscape.

Every customer has a unique IT landscape with existing legacy applications. We are true experts in designing and implementing the SAP transportation applications as part of your system architecture. Our solution architecture capabilities include a deep analysis of your business and integration requirements and the implementation of the relevant solution components. Our experienced Solution Architects are the quality stewards and key design authority for any implementation project.

A unique capability of the SAP transportation applications is that they are seamlessly integrated into the SAP landscape:

• Discover how your orders and deliveries flow into SAP Transportation Management to handle planning, freight rates and execution.
• Experience how warehouse and transportation processes from a delivery request to picking, packing and loading are harmonized with transportation planning and carrier interaction.
• Holistically manage your 3PL customers from order capturing to billing by managing transportation and warehouse services in one logistics platform with SAP TM and SAP EWM.
• Integrate your transportation and logistics processes in existing financial and controlling back-end system to analyze profitability and landed cost.

We achieve process optimization and guide you on the path to achieve true automation.

A key goal for most IT implementations is to achieve automation in processes to reduce the manual workload for employees and enable a pro-active, customer centric organization.

We are experts in achieving process automation with SAP transportation solutions, e.g. in strategic freight procurement and selling, transportation planning and optimization, freight rate management or invoice verification. The true challenge in automation often lies in collecting and efficiently managing master data. Expertise and the manual decisions of experienced users need to be digitized. We have the tools and methodologies to collect, integrate and maintain new master data into your SAP systems to achieve real automation.

Keep your process and market differentiators with value based system add-ons.

Each IT solution can reach the limits which standard software provides. This is especially the case because most customers want to implement standard software but still keep their process uniqueness and enable unique sales propositions as a key differentiator to competition.

We at Westernacher are certified experts who can guide you in deciding if and where it is possible and recommended to enhance e.g. SAP Transportation Management. We have the expertise regarding enhancement spots and user exits to judge how to realize an add-on.

• For example, we have built an integration with Tangro, an optical character recognition provider, to enable companies to process incoming forwarding orders automatically in the system without any user interaction.
• Other examples include an invoicing verification cockpit and mobile applications with SAP Fiori.

Achieve true system adoption in your organization, across regions, processes and lines of business.

Many of our customers run their transportation departments not only in a centralized organization but across multiple geographies, several lines of business and multiple functional domains and teams. We have an experienced team to guide you how to best deploy a transportation management solution. We have tools to analyze the complexity of your organization and the scope of the project. We recommend to you the best deployment approach to decide a clear roll out strategy. We provide an experienced team to supervise and support this deployment approach.