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Transportation Management.

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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.

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Westernacher is an innovation-driven company:
  • 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.
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Westernacher is working in a globally integrated way:
  • 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.
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Westernacher is proud of its first mover process:
  • 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.

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Inspiration
day
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.
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Process
management
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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Agile
implementation
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.
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Continuous improvement
Already running SAP TM but not seeing the benefits? Significantly increase your Transportation Business Value with the Westernacher Continuous Improvements Service.
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Assets
Our team of experts have put together a number of SAP S/4HANA packages to help you better understand what you can achieve.
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Customer specific enhancements
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.

Westernacher Consulting 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.

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.

Driver App

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.

Brochures
Last mile delivery as a substantial part of your supply chain.
Articles
Starting out on the path to an optimized supply chain.
Improve collaboration between shippers and carriers with Dock Appointment Scheduling.
SAP IoT and Transportation Management: Four proven business cases.
Meet TINA – the new Westernacher add-on for improved invoice handling based on SAP Transportation Management.
Manage and combine your dry and seaport with SAP Yard Logistics and SAP TM.
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.
White paper
Last-mile services – how to conquer the future of retail.
How to benefit from a connected supply chain with SAP TM and SAP EWM?
Supply chain is the heart of the organization.
Digitalization of the supply chain.
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.​

Let's work together.
Transportation Management

TINA – The Transportation Invoicing Assistant.

Gain 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.

Invoice matching in the right place at the right time.

Our TINA add-on becomes part of your SAP TM system (SAP TM on S/4 HANA or as a standalone version). It is directly integrated with your charge calculation on the supplier side (freight orders and bookings) and verifies and corrects your calculated cost before your need to transfer it to SAP ERP. With TINA, transportation invoice verification becomes a part of your logistics process and is under the control of the logistics team in charge of your partner collaboration. It does not need to be done by your financial department.

Benefits of Westernacher’s Transportation Invoicing Assistant.

Error prevention

TINA offers a high level of error prevention due to its automated invoice verification.

Automatic charge matching

Consolidated invoices, combined charges, renamed cost types, or multiple charge references (e.g., reference number, bill of lading number, etc.) are no problem for TINA’s  intelligent charge matching technique. Your logistics partners’ invoices will be flexibly matched with your SAP TM freight charges.

Increased effectiveness

More effective verification and control processes result in long term cost savings. They substantially reduced manual efforts for invoice verification.

Seamless integration

TINA offers a high level of error prevention due to automated invoice verification that is seamlessly integrated into your SAP TM process and can be adapted to a variety of input channels for carrier invoices.

Transportation Management

WCP Westernacher Collaboration Platform – Access your transportation community.

Westernacher Consulting offers a state-of-the-art platform to link your SAP TM solution to all parties and employees in the field, who need your transportation at their fingertips. It is designed as an open tool, which can be adjusted and enhanced to your needs when offering portal functionality like tendering, track&trace, dock appointment scheduling, invoicing, analytics, or others.

Extensive capabilities.

The Westernacher WCP offers extensive capabilities across a variety of functional areas, that are of high importance for collaboration with your internal teams and employees of your logistics partners. We can provide access to the portal functions for all modes of transport and for the integration of a variety of technologies that can contribute to your logistics processes.

State-of-the-art technology.

The WCP has deep collaboration and integration capabilities to your SAP TM solution and to the communication methods and preferences of your logistics partners. A role-based collaboration portal for carriers is available with extended features based on SAP back-end functionality. Our WCP is easily extendable for supplier and customer collaboration and compatible with all SAP TM versions. Westernacher Consulting can provide it on a variety of cloud-based platforms. It uses SAP HANA and SAP Fiori techniques to achieve comprehensive real time collaboration and reporting on a variety of front ends.

Benefits of Westernacher’s Collaboration Platform.

Tendering

Tendering and communication with your carriers and partners goes beyond the known limits as it can be used for any mode of transportation and can be enhanced to integrate individual requested functions that are necessary to manage your logistics business.

Tracking &
Tracing
Technologies offered by SAP Event Management or SAP Global Track and Trace can be provided to your partner ecosystem by linking it through our Westernacher Collaboration Platform.
Dock appointment scheduling

Westernacher Consulting offers a solution for dock appointment scheduling as part of WCP to enable your partners and employees to book and use your docking capacity optimally in your logistics processes.

Invoicing

The Westernacher Transportation Invoicing Assistant (TINA) can be integrated and exposed via WCP to your collaborating partners, e.g. for invoice upload or mobile invoice verification.

Analytics

The WCP offers access to your analytics data on-premise or via SAP Analytics Cloud.

Transportation Management

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 it 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.

In-depth analysis and partner collaboration are key.

Profound analysis of your transportation situation, together with the excellent capabilities of our Westernacher Consulting partners, are key to identifying upcoming issues in your logistics chain. Being able to calculate reliable ETA dates can be called state-of-the-art. With our partners, Westernacher Consulting will go beyond this and determine tools for solution proposals to your logistics issues, which directly allows you to choose alternatives when you still have the freedom of choice.

Benefits of Prescriptive Transportation.

Be ahead of the operations

We do not simply look at the activities directly related to your operational process but also work with partners to gather information on anything that may be relevant to your logistics.

Connect to global partners
Our globally acting partners aggregate a variety of data that may be relevant to your logistics activities and relate it back to your transportation processes.
Feedback insight and solutions into your transportation plan

The analysis of your process and the issues and threats that arise as it progresses can be used to work our options and solutions to achieve a proper fulfillment. These options can be fed back into your transportation management system to control ongoing mitigation to an executable alternative.

Transportation Management

Westernacher Driver Application – 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.

Comprehensive insight.

The Westernacher Driver Application enables an authorized user to collect receive and view comprehensive information on orders coming from your SAP TM. This not only contains information on goods to be transported and locations / times to be visited but also allows you to transmit details on required services to be provided, e.g., installation services for goods that are delivered.

Comprehensive guidance.

As our driver app integrates with your smart phones navigation tool, your driver can use their device to directly trigger a navigation process from the order and get guidance on the best route to reach the next destination. The destinations and sequence of orders can be changed as required in the individual tour.

Comprehensive communication.

With each order, the driver gets information on contacting the customer. Communication details or contacting hints can be displayed and directly used, e.g., to call the customer once the driver has arrived at the delivery location.

Comprehensive reporting.

The Westernacher Driver App offers a broad set of capabilities to report on activities. It allows you to send tracking events and enables registration of electronic proof of delivery including signatures and photos, confirmation of delivered or rejected services, scanning of bar codes, and reporting of work hours. All that is done with a tight integration into data exchange with your SAP TM backend.
All data can be collected to build the score cards of your carriers / drivers and other analytical decision support tools.

Benefits of Westernacher’s Driver Application.

Order transparency
Drivers get transparency about their orders, services to be delivered, customer contact details, and routes to their delivery locations.
Order reporting
Information on success and failure of the delivery process can be registered comprehensively and immediately via a variety of channels. The information can be used for analytical purposes.
Transportation Management

Westernacher 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.

Control your logistics beyond transportation.

The Westernacher Control Tower allows you to consolidate content and analytics from various applications including transportation as well as warehouse management or yard logistics. This enables a comprehensive overview of your logistics processes.

Benefits of Westernacher Control Tower

End-to-end visibility
The Westernacher Control Tower combines transportation, warehousing, and finance information. Data from different systems is consolidated and displayed centrally to create a single point of truth. Additional data sources and KPIs can be added easily.
Data combination from various sources.
Information on success and failure of the delivery process can be registered comprehensively and immediately via a variety of channels. The information can be used for analytical purposes.
Fast and flexible.
Because of the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA, data and KPIs are available in real-time, if supported by the source systems. Drilldown into details is possible instantaneously.

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