Warehouse Management Overview

Warehouse Management

Is it only a storage facility?
A warehouse is typically viewed as a place to store inventory. However, in many logistical system designs, the role of the warehouse is more properly viewed as a switching facility as contrasted to a storage facility.

Benefits of Warehousing 
Consolidation 
* Shipment consolidation is an economic benefit of warehousing.
* With this arrangement, the consolidating warehouse receives and consolidates materials from a number of manufacturing plants destined to a specific customer on a single transportation shipment.
* The benefits are the realization of the lowest possible transportation rate and reduced congestion at a customer's receiving dock.

SAP Overview - Introduction

Overview of SAP 

What is SAP? 

• SAP is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product capable of integrating multiple business applications, with each application representing a specific business area. These applications update and process transactions in real time mode. It has the ability to be configured to meets the needs of the business. 
• The name SAP is acronym for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. SAP is an extremely complicated system where no one individual can understand all of it. 
• SAP runs on a fourth generation programming language called Advance Business Application Programming (ABAP). It has many of the features of other modern programming languages such as the familiar C, Visual Basic, and Power Builder. 

Facts about SAP:

• Founded by five former IBM employees in 1972 and HEADQUARTERED in Walldorf, Germany.

• Leading global provider of client/server business software solutions.

• Fourth-largest independent software supplier in the world.

• Available in 14 languages. 

SAP Modules: 

* Sales and Distribution (SD) 

* Material Management (MM) 

* Warehouse Management (WM) 

* Production Planning (PP) 

*  General Logistics (LO) 

*  Quality Management (QM) 

*  Financial Accounting (FI) 

*  Controlling (CO) 

*  Enterprise Controlling (EC) 

*  Investment Management (IM) 

*  Treasury (TR) 

*  Personnel Administration (PA) 

*  Personnel Development (PD)