Last mile delivery as a substantial part of your supply chain.
Transportation Management.
Transportation Management must reduce transport costs and offer individual services in uncertain markets. Even under new demands, such as digital networking of customers and suppliers, sustainability and legal requirements.
As transport managers, they are now asked to rethink structures, engage with new market opportunities and concepts, and at the same time ensure operationally highly efficient and safe transports. There are no standard solutions for this.
Westernacher offers solutions for optimal transport management with Instant Innovation Tools. SAP S/4HANA, SAP TM or SAP EWM provide the perfect foundation, enhanced with smart Westernacher tools and techniques. We strengthen your transport management as well as the digitalization of the entire transport chain with our clever tools. With Instant Innovation Tools, you work even more precisely, efficiently, quickly and flexibly in transport.
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Westernacher – the transportation experts.
Westernacher is an innovation-driven company:
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- We innovate based on ideas from all our people, projects, industry experience and customers.
- We synergize through systematic research by a central team using cross-industry achievements to innovate processes.
- We develop systematic ways to encourage and enable personal initiative taking.
- We strive to be the first to implement promising new technology, either globally or in as many of our target markets as possible.
Westernacher is working in a globally integrated way:
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- A large global team of consultants continuously works together on state-of-the-art implementations and technologies.
- Exchanging knowledge of multiple industries allows Westernacher to unfold synergies and opportunities in our customers’ businesses.
- The group of highly qualified Westernacher SAP TM consultants is constantly growing and stands out through their deep and profound business process and IT know-how.
- We integrate and innovate across business practices in transportation, warehousing, logistics order processes, and related financial and ERP processes.
- We have offered consulting and logistics IT services successfully for more than 50 years.
Westernacher is proud of its first mover process:
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- We strive to be the first to implement promising new technology, either globally or in as many of our target markets as possible.
- Our Westernacher name and brand are associated with innovation.
- We were the first to implement SAP TM embedded in SAP S/4HANA.
- Westernacher is engaged in distributing our experience. We are the first to have authors of the SAP-Press SAP TM publications on board.
We guide you on your transportation journey.
SAP TM can be your first step into the SAP S/4HANA world.
Westernacher Consulting is the leading consulting company when it comes to transportation management, rich experience and dedicated expertise in implementing SAP software. We know both the requirements and implications of changing and optimizing business processes and the technology perspective. Whether you start from scratch with SAP TM, move from an existing SAP ERP landscape into the SAP S/4HANA world, or select a traditional SAP TM implementation, we provide our powerful, combined forces to guide you through all necessary steps. Our approach offers you a variety of options to step through your company roadmap.
Inspiration
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Our consulting services start supporting you long before initiating an IT implementation. Our inspiration day provides valuable insights into the latest and greatest of SAP Transportation Management and related solutions.
Process
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Need to improve your business processes, but unsure where to start? Are you debating what solution to implement? Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount and the complexity of constantly emerging technologies? We gladly engage with you to analyze your business requirements as well as pain-points, advise on the strategic direction of your supply chain, justify an investment decision, look for optimization potential, and define a reasonable roadmap to improve your business.
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All implementations managed by Westernacher Consulting follow a value-based approach. We guide our customers to apply industry best practices as well as standard processes, maximizing the capabilities of the relevant SAP solutions. Due to our in-depth expertise across all SAP applications, we ensure a best-in-class end-to-end solution, even beyond SAP TM. We specifically address any customization and add-on needs to secure a clear cost/value ratio. Once your solution has been successfully implemented, we support you regarding continuous improvements and provide application maintenance services to enable a ‘zero disruption’ utilization of your solution.
Continuous improvement
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Already running SAP TM but not seeing the benefits? Significantly increase your Transportation Business Value with the Westernacher Continuous Improvements Service.
Assets
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Our team of experts have put together a number of SAP S/4HANA packages to help you better understand what you can achieve.
Customer specific enhancements
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Converting to SAP TM offers multiple opportunities to propose a leaner implementation process with reduced scope, time, and cost. Work with our experts to help accelerate your SAP S/4HANA journey.
Customer references
Transportation Management Highlights.
Boosting Salling Group’s last-mile delivery.
To satisfy customers in each corner of the country, it operates discount stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets, and now even restaurants and coffee shops. The company serves 11 million people every week and is growing fast. There was, however, one area Salling Group hadn’t conquered: the home delivery of grocery goods. But last year, it decided to make the leap and kicked off its home delivery project (…)
Online grocery retailer with home delivery.
Fastest Transportation Management implementation to date at Scandinavia’s largest e-commerce company. E-commerce is revolutionizing retail by shifting the last mile delivery responsibility from customers to retailers. Instead of replenishing stores once or twice a week with large trucks, retailers now must plan, organize, optimize and execute hundreds of home deliveries or parcel shipments every day (…)
Real sweet rewards for United Sugar.
Automation is the key focus for US giant United Sugars Corporation (USC). The lean transportation department, consisting of six people, moves a quarter of the sugar in the United States. This made it key that Westernacher implemented a seamless and reliable automated solution for truck and rail movements. USC also wanted to remove third-party dependency for handling rail freight invoicing and automate its rail planning and execution functionality.
White paper
Innovation meets inspiration.
How process automation revolutionizes the supply chain.
This paper delves into how automating repetitive tasks can increase efficiency and prioritize value-adding work, as well as various methods for acquiring real-time data to improve decision-making. Ultimately, a zero-latency supply chain can be achieved by automating and connecting supply chain processes.
An ultimate guide to start your digital supply chain journey.
To achieve a modernized and resilient supply chain, businesses must break down silos and leverage prescriptive analytics, as small upstream errors can be amplified during transportation. Integration is key, both internally and with external partners. SAP TM is a powerful tool that shines with integrations, and this paper will explore its functionalities and potential for digital supply chain transformation.
Elevating your supply chain sustainability through SAP TM.
This paper takes a deep dive into the capabilities of SAP TM and how it can help businesses in managing polarities to achieve a sustainable and agile supply chain.
Our Instant Innovation Tools.
Solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP TM or SAP EWM offer extensive functionalities for a wide range of business processes. If you need something special that SAP does not provide in the standard, our Instant Innovation Tools are exactly the right choice.
Westernacher We drive App.
Are your drivers an important factor in your logistics chain? Then the Westernacher We drive App can fill a crucial gap. It can run on a variety of devices and guides drivers or subcontracted carriers through the individual transportation execution process based on data coming from your SAP TM system.
TINA
Full control over your payments to your transportation partners.
Payments can be a real challenge due to the variety of fee identification, mismatching amounts, non-understandable identifications, and methods of invoice consolidation. Westernacher’s Transportation Invoicing Assistant helps you to solve this task with a high level of automation before you need to transfer your charges from SAP TM into your ERP system.
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Westernacher Collaboration Platform
Our Westernacher Collaboration Platform offers a state-of-the-art user experience in connecting your SAP TM solution with your team and your partners to execute your transportation processes.
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Westernacher Prescriptive Transportation – be ahead of the issue.
Westernacher Consulting is actively working on the next level of transportation planning – prescriptive transportation. It does not just give you a hint that something went wrong, leaving you with the riddle and burden of how to fix it, as operational or predictive processes do. With prescriptive transportation, we take a big step further by offering you a solution that gives you options to fix your transportation problems before they impede achievement of your business goals.
TINA
Full control over your payments to your transportation partners.
Payments can be a real challenge due to the variety of fee identification, mismatching amounts, non-understandable identifications, and methods of invoice consolidation. Westernacher’s Transportation Invoicing Assistant helps you to solve this task with a high level of automation before you need to transfer your charges from SAP TM into your ERP system.
WCP
Westernacher
Collaboration Platform
Our Westernacher Collaboration Platform offers a state-of-the-art user experience in connecting your SAP TM solution with your team and your partners to execute your transportation processes.
WPT
Westernacher Prescriptive Transportation – be ahead of the issue.
Westernacher Consulting is actively working on the next level of transportation planning – prescriptive transportation. It does not just give you a hint that something went wrong, leaving you with the riddle and burden of how to fix it, as operational or predictive processes do. With prescriptive transportation, we take a big step further by offering you a solution that gives you options to fix your transportation problems before they impede achievement of your business goals.
We drive
Broad options for communication, guidance, and feedback.
Are your drivers an important factor in your logistics chain? Then the Westernacher Driver Application can fill a crucial gap. It can run on a variety of devices and guides drivers or subcontracted carriers through the individual transportation execution process based on data coming from your SAP TM system.
Control Tower
From micro-management to management by exception.
The Westernacher Control Tower is an SAP Fiori based tool to provide you with insight into a variety of meaningful analytical figures around your transportation processes. The different information levels of our control tower allow you to concentrate on the exceptions occurring in your logistics operations to minimize your effort in keeping your processes on track.
Logistics Network Integration
The link to your global logistics network.
Westernacher Consulting has established connectivity to an integration with a vast network of partners in logistics. This experience ranges from visibility partners to clearing functionality, quoting, booking, agencies, and supply chain intelligence. In addition, we use the Westernacher Mediator as our own middleware platform to integrate a variety of electronic message providers and consumers.
We drive
Broad options for communication, guidance, and feedback.
Are your drivers an important factor in your logistics chain? Then the Westernacher Driver Application can fill a crucial gap. It can run on a variety of devices and guides drivers or subcontracted carriers through the individual transportation execution process based on data coming from your SAP TM system.
Control Tower
From micro-management to management by exception.
The Westernacher Control Tower is an SAP Fiori based tool to provide you with insight into a variety of meaningful analytical figures around your transportation processes. The different information levels of our control tower allow you to concentrate on the exceptions occurring in your logistics operations to minimize your effort in keeping your processes on track.
Logistics Network Integration
The link to your global logistics network.
Westernacher Consulting has established connectivity to an integration with a vast network of partners in logistics. This experience ranges from visibility partners to clearing functionality, quoting, booking, agencies, and supply chain intelligence. In addition, we use the Westernacher Mediator as our own middleware platform to integrate a variety of electronic message providers and consumers.
Transportation Management Insights.
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References
Calumet jumps on the fast track for automation and visibility of rail car movements with Westernacher.
Online grocery retailer with home delivery.
Digital logistics enables Realcan to thrive in highly regulated industry.
Automating the transportation processes with SAP TM at Chamberlain Group.
How California Steel Industries automated its transportation management.
Real sweet rewards for United Sugars.
HYC Logistics builds 3PL management platform with SAP TM and EWM.
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Webinars
Elevate your supply chain sustainability with Westernacher and project44.
How consulting assets can optimize your digital supply chain processes.
How to implement your own home delivery service with SAP in 90 days.
Digital supply chain visibility in multimodal transportation with SAP TM.
Manage crisis and disruptions with digital supply chain.
Rapid mobility of SAP SCM with Neptune DX platform.
How to lower TCO and digitize SAP Supply Chain Execution.
How to delight a consumer in their last-mile experience.
SAP TM goes S/4. What does that mean for your TM?
Manage by exception with SAP TM. Innovative. Predictive. Automated.
SAP EWM running on the Fiori interface.
Support
We don’t just stop with projects.
We see our customers as long-term partners. Once your S/4HANA TM system is up and running, our support team will take over.
