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SAP ERP 6.0 Retail: tour optimization
Project duration: 8 months
Brief description
In order to control and manage the motor pool, trucks are connected to transport scheduling in SAP via the WEBFLEET service from the provider TomTom. In order to achieve independence from the WEBFLEET program and support the process of compiling and planning transports, a tour cockpit (TC) was set up in SAP to support transport and tour planning in SAP itself. The cockpit integrates the transport-related data from SAP documents and makes it possible for the user to compile the delivery orders for tours from the individual destination addresses and assign these to the truck. A planned tour can be sent directly from the cockpit via the SAP IDoc interface to middleware (Seeburger BIS). The middleware automatically sends the data to the portal SystemsForWork, which immediately transfers the planned tour via the TomTom Webfleet service to the navigation device in the truck, where it is then available.
Supplement
The customer has scheduling centers distributed regionally and these are responsible for deployment planning (supplying customers, possible collections from suppliers or returns) of the assigned motor pool. The existing method of manually compiling the tours and route scheduling is to be automated. To achieve this, relevant data such as destination addresses, delivery data, weights etc. are collected from deliveries and orders in SAP in a scheduling monitoring, where they are visualized. Tours and orders can be compiled and vehicles can be assigned and approved. The data is then forwarded using IDoc and middleware via the TomTom Webfleet service to the navigation devices installed in the trucks, which plan routes between the defined destinations on the tour for the driver. Activities from analysis, via implementation, to support for commissioning are provided by PTA. An initial production phase is to be performed in a pilot scheduling center.
Subject description
The key challenge here is the fact that the individual scheduling centers differ widely in terms of size, responsibilities and methods, as well as the fact that a range of special and individual cases need to be considered in this technical environment. One example is that the delivery address is often a newly built area in which there are not yet any place names or street names; in other words, it must be possible to determine an address that is suitable for the navigation device, e.g. in the form of geo-coordinates, as quickly and easily as possible, 'on the fly,' and make this available to the application.
Overview
- Industries trade
- Specialist tasks BPM: process design, dispatch, freight costs, motor pool, picking, returns, route planning, shipping
- DV tasks standard software expansion
- System environment standard software: ERP systems
- Procedure model customer standard
- Development/ test tools ABAP/4 - Development Workbench
- Standard software SAP Retail
Project period01.02.2016 - 14.10.2016
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