by Phillip Avelar | Apr 1, 2020 | AdvancedBOL, AdvanceShip for SAP, Logistics Execution, Transportation Planning
When talking about ways to use and optimize transportation processes our conversations regularly move to talking about what Amazon does. Amazon and their logistics operations are held in high regard by logistics professionals the world over. Interestingly enough...
by Phillip Avelar | Mar 3, 2020 | AdvancedBOL, AdvanceShip for SAP, Logistics Execution, Transportation Planning
As shippers we are always looking for opportunities to optimize our freight costs. The transportation environment has changed dramatically since 2018, first with the capacity crunch and now increased market demands to deliver smaller more frequent orders with less...
by SAP Support Team | Feb 16, 2020 | Advanced Support, AdvancedBOL, AdvanceShip for SAP
In distribution / manufacturing environments the Bill of ladings stands out as the most common document produced after the packing slip. What makes the Bill of lading the most challenging is that detail and structure of the requirements to produce a bill of lading. In...
by Phillip Avelar | Jun 18, 2018 | AdvanceLabel for SAP, AdvancePack, AdvanceShip for SAP, SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management), Warehouse Management
When packing handling units for shipping, or processing inbound handling units, it’s common to need to weigh and post this value to SAP. We often work with companies to automate the process of getting these values in SAP automatically so in this blog...
by SAP Support Team | Feb 25, 2015 | Advanced Support, AdvancedBOL, AdvanceShip for SAP, Logistics Execution
Determining the correct freight class for your LTL shipments may seem like a daunting task, especially when your materials fall into various classes and your loads are various sizes. Customers using AdvanceShip should rarely need to think about this. But, in case you...
by Phillip Avelar | Nov 18, 2014 | AdvancedBOL, AdvanceShip for SAP, Logistics Execution, SAP - Sales and Distribution
We regularly need to explain the details of how freight billing options can be handled correctly in SAP. I’ll explain the 3 main options for domestic billing from a typical small parcel carrier first and then give you some examples. The typical domestic parcel...
by Phillip Avelar | Apr 15, 2009 | Headline, Logistics Execution, Supply Chain
In today’s blog I want to talk about Supply Chain metrics. I bring this up today on the occasion that WERC has released one of my favorite studies, this is the annual study of Warehouse metrics. If you are not a WERC member I encourage you to join or at least...
