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How Modern Dock Intelligence Addresses Cargo Theft in the Supply Chain
Cargo theft is a supply chain execution problem. Discover how modern dock intelligence prevents fraud through verification and control.
Inventory Management – No drones required
I’m sure you’ve heard the commercials for that financial app that claims to save you hundreds of dollars each month—just by canceling subscriptions you forgot about. Like me, you probably stared at the wall thinking, really? What’s even scarier is that…
The AI Gold Rush Is Here — And Your Enterprise Data Is What They’re After
Let’s be honest—we’re in the middle of a gold rush. Not for minerals or precious metals, but for your data. Since the release of ChatGPT and competing models, we’ve seen a level of hype around artificial intelligence that rivals and exceeds the hype, investment of the…
Listen to our interview on Apple@Work
Our Partner Phil Avelar talks Apple technology with Bradley Chambers on the Apple@Work podcast about how we’re using iPads, Apple TV, Machine Learning, and Generative AI to drive innovation in the enterprise. We covered some of the exciting ways these…
The Hidden Costs and Failures of a Cloud-First Strategy
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the allure of a cloud-first strategy has captivated many organizations. The promise of flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency makes cloud adoption an enticing prospect. However, beneath the surface,…
Reprocessing an IDOC in SAP
It is very common when testing new IDOC related processes that you need the ability to reprocess an IDOC several times or depending the test maybe you need to change an IDOC status to allow some other form of processing. Here are the easy steps to change the status…
Load Security in Focus: Essential Best Practices for Dock and Yard Management
In the world of logistics, ensuring the security of cargo is paramount. With the increasing complexity of supply chains, it’s essential to have robust practices in place to safeguard your loads from the moment they arrive at your facility to the time they reach their…
Test a SOAP call from SAP
A colleague recently was trying to figure out a way to determine what was going on with one of his soap calls, he browsed the SCN network to see what others might be doing but most referenced using SOAPui to do testing of the web service. As much…
Talking about the Amazon logistics network
When talking about ways to use and optimize transportation processes our conversations regularly move to talking about what Amazon does. Amazon and their logistics operations are held in high regard by logistics professionals the world over. Interestingly enough…
Bill of lading scenarios
In a previous post I talked about the various freight optimization techniques available in logistics to optimize freight costs. We received some good feedback and want to expand the conversation to discuss bill of lading documents and the leading practice for the…
Reduce freight costs using transportation optimization with SAP – Part 1
As shippers we are always looking for opportunities to optimize our freight costs. The transportation environment has changed dramatically since 2018, first with the capacity crunch and now increased market demands to deliver smaller more frequent orders with less…
Reprint a Bill of lading in SAP
The steps to reprint a Bill of Lading in SAP is easy, a Bill of Lading is a SAP output type. The output type itself sadly is customer specific so you’ll need to check your system output descriptions to know which output type you company has used. We have standardized…
Bill of Ladings vs Proof of Delivery
Advanced Solutions provides several solutions for managing truck shipments, that include Bill of ladings and proof of delivery. A common question is what is the difference, when is one appropriate over the other etc. In today’s post I’ll describe them and how they are…
Quickly generate a pdf directly from a sap print preview
It’s common that customers need to quickly and easily generate a PDF for a document. Typically, we do this by setting up an output type that has a PDF output defined. But what if this is a last minute request from a user and no output is defined? An undocumented…
Why Web APIs are not replacing EDI anytime soon
I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about the great coming of Web APIs and how they’ll replace standard EDI communications. In the age of Amazon, we can all agree there is a need to upgrade EDI technology, which has been around since the 1960s. But replacing it…
You’re doing SAP EDI wrong…and wasting money
Customers often complain about the time and money it takes to integrate SAP EDI processes with partners. And they’re not wrong. Two things stand in the way of SAP EDI efficiency: using IDOC processes incorrectly and buying into the misconception that “this is the way…
Generating a Manual bill of lading in SAP
Though you maybe generating Bill of ladings on a daily basis directly from SAP what you may not know is that the same Bill of lading you are generating from SAP is also available manually for shipments originating in an external system or no System at all. It used to…
The USPS gets no respect
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Print a manual label in SAP using Enterprise Label
Occasionally a clients environment has restrictions on users access to a browser or run restricted desktops that cannot access the BarTender Web Print server to be able to generate ondemand Barcode labels. If this is the case in your environment you still have the…
Determine your freight class in Advance Ship for SAP
Determining the correct freight class for your LTL shipments may seem like a daunting task especially when your materials fall into various classes and your loads of various sizes. Luckily customers using Advance Ship should rarely need to think about this. But in…