SAP Packaging – Packaging Logistics in SAP

Mapping of SAP-based packaging processes with SERKEM
to save costs and time

Your Requirements

  • Easier planning of packaging material like containers
  • Avoiding of multiple entries
  • Comprehensible processes and operations
  • Registration of additional information to the stocks

Our Solution

  • Management of returnable packaging accounts
  • Deposit of packing rules and packing specifications
  • Packaging of material in Hus
  • Packaging at the workplace, in production and at delivery
  • Co-packing for outsourcing of packaging processes

Your Benefits

  • Less customer returns because of false packages
  • Reduction of costs for repacking
  • Stock safety of packing material
  • Guarantee of a save supply of customers

The SERKEM solution in detail

Packaging logistics is an important value-added stage for all manufacturing and trading companies. It encompasses all tasks related to picking, inspection, packaging, transportation, and shipping preparation of goods.

Mapping of packaging logistics in SAP

With the new functions of packaging logistics the companies have comprehensive possibilities. The packaging logistics can be used in the following areas:

  • Deliveries
  • Production (serial production and discrete manufacturing)
  • Quality management
  • Warehouse management

At a glance

Handling Unit Management (HUM)

With the Handling Unit Management the logistical operations can be controlled with the help of handling units (HU).

Thereby a HU is defined in SAP like: a HU is a physical object, consisting of a load carrier, one or multiple packed products and an unlimited amount of packing material.

Over the packing instructions in the SAP system you can pretend requirements for packaging. For example, you can specify which material and which amount in which package have to be packed to a handling unit.

The HUs are automatically created over the packing instructions.

If companies work with reusable packaging, which circulates as a returnable packaging between the business partners, they can map this change relationship with the help of returnable packaging accounts directly in SAP.

In combination with the MM stock management there´s the possibility to manage the stocks of reusable packing materials at plant or storage place level.

Packing instructions

Packing instructions define all necessary packaging levels for a product. They describe in which amount, in which packing materials and in which order the product has to be packed.

Packing instructions make information for the system available how products have to be packed in HUs. At the same time they inform the employees in printed version about activities, which have to be executed additionally during the packing process.

Packing instructions are used during different warehouse processes inside EWM:

  • Automated creation of storing-warehouse tasks
  • Evaluation of the right amount of warehouse tasks at the base of deliveries
  • Finding of packaging material at the warehouse tasks creation
  • Palletizing or determination of operative amount unit at internal warehouse processes
  • Execution of additional processes like logistical additional services

Customer value:

If there are target amounts for a main packing material deposited in the system for the included products, the system shares the amount of delivery automatically to several warehouse tasks.

With the function for packaging at the working place products can be packed in HUs and HUs in further HUs. To optimize the worklist of the user, there are different filter options for packaging available.

Functions:

  • Scan, creation/repacking/changing/deconsolidation of Hus
  • Booking of differences
  • Packaging with drag & drop

If you receive deliveries from your supplier without packaging information over HUs you can let the unpacked delivery position be packed automatically from the system.

Therefore the packing instructions have to be created and activated.

A dialogue supports you at the warehouse tasks acknowledgement in the paper-based process. Product warehouse tasks and HU warehouse tasks can be assigned to pick-HUs.

After picking, the suggested picking-handling-units can be assigned to the warehouse tasks during acknowledgment.

In SAP EWM the expected amount of planned shipping-HUs can be calculated to different times. The basics for this are different information like delivery orders, waves, storage orders and product master data.

Customer value:

  • Better planning of employee commitment, resources and transportation goods through determination of planned shipping HUs
  • Additional Information in further course of goods issue processes with waves- and warehouse task creation for further refinement of planning
  • Creation of real pick-HUs during implementation of picking at the base of planned shipping HUs

SERKEM solutions

The solutions in SAP of SERKEM can be used under SAP WM as well as SAP EWM for optimization of SAP processes during packaging.

Extract from our references

Logo ZF

ZF Friedrichshafen AG

  • Automotive industry
  • Turnover: 16,8 Mrd. €
  • Employee: 72.600

SEB

Groupe SEB:

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

Success Story Groupe SEB

Further informationen

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Packtischlösung in SAP

Co-Packing in SAP

Verpacken in der Fertigung

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