Container Management in SAP

Keep Track of Container Movements, Locations and Status with SERKEM

Your Requirements

  • Know container location and status
  • Track container movements
  • Avoid decrease and loss of the container
  • Prevent supply bottlenecks
  • Organize the return from the customer

Our Solution

  • Monitors provide a better overview over inventories and positions
  • Different charge carriers are managed uniformly
  • Overview of differences of quantity deviation during the return of the containers
  • Mapping of negative inventories with including dunning system
  • Usage of the solution also without SAP WM or SAP EWM

Your Advantages

  • Cross-company transparency in the container-circulation
  • Cost advantages through less fixed capital at increased planning security
  • Overview of all relevant information
  • Automated processes

The SERKEM Solution in Detail

In many companies and sectors, reusable packaging or containers are in use. The purchasing costs are higher than for disposable packaging but were amortized, if the container management is organized efficiently. Through the container movements in different circuits, the overview of the container, the positions and status is made significant difficult. In addition, the containers stay different periods of time at the customer and the return has to be organized.

To avoid unnecessary costs through loss and decrease of the containers as well as container shortage, the implementation of a sap-based container management is recommended.

The solution of SERKEM is helpful to keep track of the container movements and positions.

 

Over different monitors you supervise all relevant data at any time and profit from a smooth operation in the supply chain with short process times and high transparency over the container movements and inventories. For the usage of the container-management-solution in SAP, neither SAP WM nor SAP EWM is required.

At a glance

    Material Master

    • Creation of own materials for the unique container-/ packaging types with dates to the container/ packaging and storage
    • In- and outputs are booked as incoming and outgoing goods

    Dunning System

    • Debiting of Suppliers/Customers/etc
    • Mapping of negative inventories: Inventories from the company, which are owed the supplier and vice versa
    • Usage of billing-, rental- and dunning functions

    Packaging-Material-Monitor

    • Determination of the packaging material need for customers and suppliers: Settings for packing instructions, resolution against requirements, determination of required packaging material
    • Calculation of the stock range: Analysis of the stock situation, settlement of requirements and inventories
    • Visualization of the packaging-material-need
    • Generation of the packaging-material-order

    Empties-Monitor

    • Display and directly go to material document
    • Summation of the empties-container
    • Clear display
    • Further splits can be customer-individual displayed
    • Possibility of price calculation for empties
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    Monitoring of Movements and Locations

    Overview of Inventories and Positions

    • Permanent monitoring of inventories
    • Better capacity of the consisting container
    • Quick intervention by visibility and targeted tracking of the individual containers

    Transparency in the Container Circulation

    • Status management of the containers (full/empty)
    • Increased efficiency at distribution/collection of containers
    • More planning security and lower safety stock

    Instant Registration of Quantity Deviation

    • Direct Information of deviations at the return of the container
    • Rental-, billing- and dunning-functions incentives
    • Containers cannot get lost any more

    Reduction of Manual Work Steps and Activities

    • Consistent administration various loads and containers
    • Automated and prompt registrations and comparisons of container movements
    • Reduction of costs

    Lower fixed Capital in the Company

    • Optimized processes through improved coordination processes
    • Lower safety stocks
    • Avoiding decrease means prevention of unnecessary procurement costs

    Overview of Relevant Information

    • Overview of incoming and outgoing bookings in the empties monitor
    • Overview of stock range and requirements in the packaging monitor
    • Overview of containers in circulation / standstill

    • Container stocks per area (companies, customers, suppliers, etc.)
    • Overview of containers which are in the company or which are owed to suppliers, and if they are in circulation or standstill
    • Status management of the containers (full / empty))
    • Quantity deviation at the return of the containers
    • Different types of containers (standard and customer-specific containers)
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    • Location of the load carriers
    • Various recording techniques: localization, auto-ID, manual ID input
    • Integration of cleaning process, repair and testing
    • Integration of different suppliers / forwarding companies
    • Integration of the pallet exchange function
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    Extract from our References

    IFCO Systems Behälterverwaltung in SAP

    IFCO Systems GmbH

    • Logistics Service Provider
    • Turnover: Over 1 Mrd. $ (2018)
    • Employees: Over 1.100

     

    SAP Behälterverwaltung delta pronatura SERKEM

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    Dr. Krauss & Dr. Beckmann KG

    • Consumer Goods
    • Turnover: 152 Mio. € (2016)
    • Employees: 350 worldwide

    MEA Group

    • Supplier for the areas construction and industry
    • Turnover: 120 Mio. € (2012)
    • Employees: 700

    SKF

    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Turnover: 63.597 Mio. SEK (2013/2014)
    • Employees: 48.401 (2013)