Package optimization in SAP

Package optimization and packaging planning directly
in SAP WM/EWM

Your Requirements

  • Optimized package formation even before picking
  • Package formation from deliveries of any size
  • Complex package formations with a wide variety of materials and properties
  • Optimal utilization of conveyor technology
  • Algorithmic calculation using case calculation

Our Solution

  • Optimized packaging of materials
  • Packaging bids/packaging bans
  • Consideration of dangerous goods of all classes
  • Heavyweight before lightweight
  • Possibility to specify standard packaging material
  • Two-step packaging planning (e.g. for cooled goods)
  • Algorithmic calculation using case calculation

Your Benefits

  • Lower shipping costs
  • Reduction of costs for cardboards/packaging materials
  • Better capacity of picking
  • Less packaging material (green logistics)
  • Better utilization of conveyor technologies

The SERKEM solution in detail

Package optimization/case calculation directly in SAP

The optimal packaging of individual items and goods during the shipping process is a crucial aspect of warehouse logistics. Through case calculation, packages are optimally assigned to a parcel. Additionally, the associated packaging planning is carried out directly in SAP WM/EWM, allowing for early planning of the number and types of shipping handling units (HUs) likely to be needed in the outbound process.

At a glance

Transparency

  • Detailed log’s/protocols of all packaging algorithms directly in SAP ensure complete transparency and traceability
  • The SAP EWM system determines which warehouse types have to be picked, so that an optimal and precise control of the picking capacity and conveyor technology capacity can be made possible.

  • Based on the case calculation, materials are packed together in the best possible way, taking into account:
    • Dimensions
    • Weight
    • Volume
    • Dangerous goods
    • Quantity
    • Material properties

  • Packaging planning takes packing bids into account: which materials always have to be packed together?
  • The packaging planning takes into account packing bans: which materials may never be packed together?

  • Heavyweight or lightweight materials are treated prioritized or not prioritized

  • The parameters for package optimization are freely selectable:
    • Total weight of the boxes to be formed
    • Cooled goods logics
    • Separated delivery
    • Standard packaging to the material
    • Pack heavyweight to heavyweight
    • Pack lightweight to lightweight
    • Material textures
    • Pack additional label for “standing” or “lying”
    • Transportation temperatures
  • Various packaging sizes are freely selectable

  • The same dangerous goods classes can be packed together
  • Different classes of dangerous goods are packed separately

  • It is possible to map interlaced HUs for small parts shipments
  • Packaging planning for delivery orders
  • Packaging planning for waves
  • Packaging planning for warehouse order creation
  • Then a direct pick HU and TA creation is possible

Packstückoptimierung in SAP WM/EWM

Extract from our References

Büroring eG

  • Purchasing, marketing, and service cooperative society of office supply retailers
  • Turnover: 206 Mio. € (2012)
  • Employees: 81 (2013)

Success Story Büroring

SEB

Groupe SEB

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

Success Story Groupe SEB

Henry Schein SAP SERKEM

Henry Schein, Inc.

  • Medical Technologies
  • Turnover: 11,6 Mrd. $ (2016)
  • Employees: Over 22.000 worldwide

Success Story Henry Schein

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