Challenges
- Develop an integration solution between the warehouse management system (WMS) and SAP ByDesign
- Automate sales order outbound warehouse pick-ups and shipment confirmation
- Automate inventory count cycle count integration and inbound logistics
Solutions
- The solution comprised of developing adapter schedulers that run approximately every minute to read sales order, create a pick task and confirm pick for SAP outbound delivery
- Adapter Integrates ByDesign to WMS – Performs mapping and logic to generate Pick Task creation in 3rd Party Solution defined interface tables
- PickPro ( 3rd Party WMS Solution) – Performs all warehouse tasks. Has an established SQL Based Interface solution for integration
- SAP ByDesign – Normal ByD processing is followed from Order to Outbound Delivery using the simple logistics model of creation of WH tasks
Tools & Technologies
SAP By Design, PickPro WMS System
Key benefits
- Integrating SAP ByDesign with Pickpro helped to increase outbound pick-ups by 900%
- Integration allowed to shift from paper pick-tickets for wholesale to pick-to-scan, thereby increasing throughput by 500%
- Integration allowed induction of all materials into Pickpro so that products can be managed down to each individual location, which in turn improved inventory accuracy by 15-20%
- The integration between the systems allows the customer to fully utilize all available the functionalities of their WMS, which wasn’t possible before
