Forklift Control System in SAP

Optimization of company-internal shipments with SERKEM

Your Requirements

  • Effective design of company-internal shipments
  • Control of drive-resources and drive-ways
  • Reduce the amount of necessary shipments up to now
  • Edit more transportation volume in the same time

Our Solution

  • Route management in SAP:  drive/shipment orders are processed system-guided
  • Warehouse activity monitor for control and monitoring of drive orders and resources
  • Mobile forklift dialogues
  • Integration of forklift control system in the total process

Your Benefits

  • Automated drive-control incl. route optimization
  • Fast, errorfree order processing
  • Increase of efficiency of the forklift fleet as well as the stock safety
  • Growth of customer satisfaction and adherence to delivery dates
  • Cost savings

The SERKEM solution in detail

In warehouses, forklifts handle a wide variety of transport orders, especially for internal goods transport between different areas.

With the forklift control system, you can simplify and make internal transports more efficient: driving resources and routes can be optimally managed, maximizing utilization, allowing for a larger transport volume to be handled within the same time frame with the same or reduced resources.

The forklift control system offers the opportunity for coordinated transport optimization within the company, logistics centers, distribution centers, shipping centers, etc.

At a glance

At the order registration, different order types will be used for e.g. offering different price buildings and service times. The route control takes place over the order types.

At the order creation a shipment order will be generated in the system, thereby different collection types will be differenced. The necessary data can be entered over the registration mask. For labeling of goods, there are different labeling types possible, e.g. outline label, order paper, pick-up and/or delivery verification and production number.

All transport orders are immediately involved in the forklift control system and are shown to the employees at their mobile devices.

Every employee is signing up with a personal login and the vehicle type.

The assignment of single employees takes place over the activity monitor. The order classification will be optimized; thereby different priorities will be included.

The activity monitor serves as order monitoring, order prioritization, order cancellation, order input, information forwarding and the master data maintenance. The forklift activity monitor shows the actual processing status of the drive orders and the order supply per employee.

Functions: capacity planning, group building for picking orders, creation of drive orders from upstreamed activities in SAP, single and multilevel processing of drive orders.

Depending to the order type, the employee takes over the goods through confirmation of approval. The goods takeover has to be marked per status indicator in the forklift control system so that the monitoring in the activity monitor is possible.

The goods transfer will be quitted or scanned, depending to the order type. If this doesn´t takes place, the employee receives an error notification at the screen.

The Data Warehouse offers you extensive reporting functions and analyses.

Access to information such as billing data, system information, transport order data, etc., is controlled through authorization concepts.

With the help of the mobile forklift dialog, your employees can easily manage transport orders directly at the respective vehicle, taking priority-driven criteria into account.

The user interface is designed to be user-friendly, customizable to individual customer needs, and optimized for display on mobile devices.

Processes from production can trigger process starts in the SAP forklift management system. For example, the receipt of a box can initiate a task to collect the box from production. Similarly, the processes in the forklift management system can handle subsequent steps in production, such as printing paper, notifying the assembly line, and more.

Thanks to its modular design, the forklift management system can be gradually expanded.

Even the basic functionalities provide optimized route management. The basis for task assignment includes priority control in conjunction with the forklift’s current location and the nearest task. The functions of the forklift management system can be customized to meet your process requirements.

**Easy Customization of the Forklift Management System in SAP:**

All customization settings for the Forklift Management System (FMS) are consolidated in a single transaction. Within this transaction, any activities or functions can be configured.

Notification texts and clarification reasons can be individually maintained.

  • Double plays
  • Priority control
  • Parallel loading and unloading
  • Implementation of special processes
  • Optimization strategy adjustable as needed
  • Multi-stage packaging of handling units

The SERKEM forklift control system is based on SAP standard processes and can be used with both SAP WM and SAP EWM:

  • Automation and optimization of travel control
  • Continuous documentation and traceability
  • Increased process security
  • Elimination of printing and attachment of transport order documents
  • Cost savings of 15 – 35%
  • Direct integration with SAP ERP
  • Optimal price-performance ratio for the customer
  • Analysis of routes and travel times through a reporting system to initiate improvement measures
  • Management of master data and simple control through a central cockpit
  • Prioritization of route assignment based on predefined criteria
  • Use of various devices (touch-screen terminals, mobile handheld devices)
  • SAP transport processing with mobile devices
  • Single-stage/multi-stage processing of transport orders
  • System-based order allocation allows for consideration and servicing of different vehicles
  • Gradual expansion through modular design according to individual requirements
  • Integration with location systems and navigation
  • Extension for mobile data collection by employees who pick, pack, or move goods on foot or with handcarts

Groupe SEB:

  • Consumer Goods
  • Turnover: 6,8 Mrd. € (2018)
  • Employees: 34.000 (2018)

Success Story Groupe SEB

Rauch GmbH & Co. KG

  • “Furniture and wood-based materials industry”
  • Turnover: 306 Mio. €
  • Employee: 1.600

Success Story Rauch

3M ESPE

  • Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
  • Turnover: 2,4 Mrd. Euro (2013)
  • Employee: 6.200

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