Optimizing Reverse Logistics With Sap Erp

This is the book you need to master reverse logistics. You ll learn how to configure and use SAP ERP to optimize reverse logistics practices, particularly returns, repairs, and refurbishment. And with the step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and tips provided throughout, you ll find many ways to streamline your processes and make your business perform more efficiently. This is the book that will ensure you re getting the most out of the reverse logistics tools in SAP ERP. Basic Principles of Reverse Logistics Explore what reverse logistics is and how it can help you develop a more efficient and cost-effective business. Reverse Logistics Functionalities Get a thorough understanding of the various reverse logistics processes, and learn how they are executed within SAP ERP. SAP ERP Configuration Learn how to customize SAP ERP for reverse logistics to work for your needs. Finance in Reverse Logistics Learn how to recapture value for reverse logistics with accounting and valuation in SAP. Real-World Examples and Tips Use the insider tips provided throughout to find solutions to your own reverse logistics issues.

As the age of Big Data emerges, it becomes necessary to take the five dimensions of Big Data- volume, variety, velocity, volatility, and veracity- and focus these dimensions towards one critical emphasis - value. The Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization confronts the challenges of information retrieval in the age of Big Data by exploring recent advances in the areas of knowledge management, data visualization, interdisciplinary communication, and others. Through its critical approach and practical application, this book will be a must-have reference for any professional, leader, analyst, or manager interested in making the most of the knowledge resources at their disposal.

Avoid having too little or too much stock on hand with this guide to inventory management and optimization with SAP ERP Start by managing the stock you have through replenishment, goods issue, goods receipt, and internal transfers. Then plan for and optimize your future by avoiding bottlenecks, setting lead times, using simulations, and more. Finally, evaluate your operations using standard reports, the MRP Monitor, and KPIs. Keep your stock levels just right Key Inventory Processes Understand essential business processes like good receipt, goods issue, internal stock transfer, reservations, and using materials documents. Then map these processes to their specific master data settings like service levels and lot size. Planning and Optimization Learn how the entire supply chain influences inventory planning, and jump into methods and tools for inventory optimization including SAP ERP Add-On tools for simulations and inventory cockpits. Monitoring, Reporting, and Analysis Employ Logistics Information Systems methods to control and monitor inventory, use the MRP Monitor for inventory analysis, and calculate key indicators to measure inventory performance. Highlights: Inventory management Inventory optimization Supply chain management Goods receipt/goods issue (GR/GI) Stock transfer SAP ERP Add-Ons Lot size Demand planning Material requirements planning (MRP) MRP Monitor Key performance indicators (KPIs)

This contributed volume presents a collection of materials on supply chain management including industry-based case studies addressing petrochemical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and reverse logistics topics. Moreover, the book covers sustainability issues, as well as optimization approaches. The target audience comprises academics, industry managers, and practitioners in the field of supply chain management, being the book also beneficial for graduate students

"This book has compiled chapters from experts from around the world in the field of supply chain management and provides a vital compendium of the latest research, case studies, frameworks, methodologies, architectures, and best practices within the field of supply chain management"--Provided by publisher.

Currently, it is obvious that new types of production (Industry 4.0) are accompanying new ways of distribution, which advance logistics, physical distribution science, and even supply chain management. The changing environment for carrying out logistics activities is also important for the development of the supply chain. Care for ecology, the recent pandemic, and the situation in Ukraine are other reasons to adapt logistics to the needs of an individual customer/recipient. It would be impossible without developing an appropriate strategy and applying appropriate tools for managing supply chains in the national and international dimensions. This book specifically addresses these issues. When analyzing the needs and structure of modern supply chains, in the context of their safety and risk reduction, it is impossible to ignore the problem of digitization, which allows for logistic analysis of the company, determining optimal routes, designing logistic systems, optimizing storage processes and costs, and predicting possible threats (crisis situations) and their effects (losses). IT support, automatic data exchange, e-logistics, telematics, traceability, and chatbots between various departments of the company along the upper and lower parts of the supply chain improve the flow of material and accompanying information through automation, robotization, proactivity, and document digitization. These new trends make it possible to define logistics as modern logistics using new achievements of science and technology. Modern logistics must also consider ecological aspects in line with assumptions about protecting the environment and improving our climate. Efficiently organized reverse logistics is not without significance for ecology. It is supported by renewable energy, electric vehicles, proper education in the field of a closed economy, cleaner production, waste minimization, the use of passive infrastructure, and proper waste management that allows us to positively influence environmental protection and human health. To meet the needs of creating modern supply chains, the authors developed this powerful book in which they analyze and present current and future solutions that influence the development of these issues in modern reverse logistics.