- 21. How Sustainable are My Suppliers?
- (Retail)
- ... to reduce transportation-related emissions on both inbound and outbound shipments. There are many approaches, with Grainger, for example, opting to use the EPA’s Smartway Shipper certification. Others ...
- 22. Robots are Driving 3PL Automation
- (Logistics)
- ... where people fill them with inbound goods and/or pick goods out of them to fulfill orders. The solution reduces the need for workers to walk the floor during materials handling processes. While the robot ...
- 23. Let's End Manual Data Entry
- (EDI)
- ... companies could get away with ‘faux EDI’- you know, the old ‘rip and read’ process where inbound emails were printed and re-keyed into your system to create orders. Although that hasn’t completely disappeared, ...
- 24. EDI’s Arch-Nemeses
- (EDI)
- ... nervous when a testing partner only asks for a 997 to complete testing. There are just too many scenarios that could occur on the inbound and outbound documents not to at least run one order completely ...
- 25. Who's Your Customer
- (Management)
- ... examples we encountered: Our AP area had a team who manually ‘worked’ supplier invoices that didn’t match PO information. When inbound processes experienced slowdowns or connection issues, the team ...
- 26. Doing it Wrong - Get it Right!
- (Management)
- ... grief by the SAP team about inbound documents erroring out in the interface. Is that just the nature of the EDI beast, or are you doing something very wrong? A consistent challenge for any EDI team ...
- 27. Done with 2011 - Ready for 2012
- (Management)
- ... of items that previously included freight. Making this switch not only allowed the retailers to manage the cost of LTL and Truck Load Carrier shipments inbound, but also to take advantage of using their ...
- 28. XML is Dead - Long Live XML
- (EDI)
- ... become more tightly connected and translation services take over an increasing amount of the detailed work around converting transaction files between trading partners, the actual format of the inbound ...
- 29. Measuring EDI
- (EDI)
- ... straight forward metric is more effective. The efficiency metric that I have discovered that gets the most attention is showing the incremental reduction of man hours needed to support inbound documents ...
- 30. Connections that Might Be
- (Integration)
- ... were really important to discover and communicate around. Any change to an IDOC made by one of the SAP development teams had to be evaluated by us to determine if any inbound or outbound EDI or XML maps ...
- 31. Showing the True Benefit of EDI to the Bottom Line
- (EDI)
- ... you can go about your cost analysis by tracking several inbound purchase orders and establishing the actual processing costs associated with each. The next step would be to take a similar sample of orders ...
- 32. To Outsource or not Outsource... That is The Question
- (Management)
- ... retailers are looking at adding EDI transactions to the library of business documents. Grocery is looking at the ASN for managing inbound freight, and more importantly as a step to "product traceability". ...
- 33. Automation of Domestic Transportation
- (Logistics)
- ... place to manage these shipments. For some this means an investment in a TMS (Transportation Management System) which is used to calculate the scheduled inbound shipments and build out a trailer. For others ...
- 34. Traceability - RFID verses Barcode
- (Technology)
- ... box or pallet of interest. This can then be managed as inbound shipments are received and account for these units outbound to stores or consumers. Even though the costs of these tags are going down; there ...
- 35. How Do You Know?
- (EDI)
- ... when appropriate. For example, you may have a certain percentage of inbound orders that fail and must be manually processed. Establish a time limit on how long that should take and figure out how you can ...
- 36. ASN - The Most Valuable EDI Document
- (EDI)
- ... – Customer Service – The inbound ASN to a Store or DC provides visibility of anticipated delivery of orders in cases in which the retailer has backorders with their customers. Having this visibility ...
- 37. What are Your Measurements?
- (Management)
- ... you support. At a minimum, though, I’ll bet you’ll need these: Transactions by type by partner. Customer service may want to see how many inbound customer orders and outbound invoices are being processed, ...
- 38. Can You Improve? Continuously?
- (Management)
- ... completely electronically. Common problems might occur with ASN matches vs. outbound POs, inbound invoices not matching PO data, data missing from inbound transactions that cause ERP hiccups, and things ...
- 39. Ecommerce and EDI
- (Retail)
- ... doing so, you're going to have to automate the receiving process next year in order to keep up with the influx of inbound shipments from your suppliers. I'm sure that you're expecting the inventory turns ...
- 40. Time to Celebrate!
- (Management)
- ... don’t disregard your non-metric-driven accomplishments. Learning to map inbound cXML, at least to me, is far more important than cranking through a dozen straightforward X.12 implementation projects that ...
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