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Perfect Shipment solutions for SAP
ORTEC’s Perfect Shipment solutions are demand driven load building solutions that provide the ability for companies to generate fully utilized truckloads in advance of execution of the order and shipment.

The Value – The results are quantifiable, measurable and real:

  • Reduce the number of loads required to ship product 
  • Increase full truckload orders 
  • Reduce order discount bracket pricing lost revenue 
  • Enable planners to focus on planning demand rather than building trucks
The solutions provide a platform for identifying and building the most important order quantities for delivery to an internal distribution location or customer location. It enables visibility to coordinate replenishments of stock transfer orders, VMI requirements, and customer orders. This enables decision-making to support demand-sensing and shaping planning activities far in advance of planning and execution processes. The ORTEC Perfect Shipment solutions complements your demand, supply, warehousing and transportation planning activities using non-invasive methods.

The Key Capabilities – The solutions accomplishes the following: 

  • Planners can forecast transportation requirements far in advance of transportation planning processes. 
  • Identifies how many trucks are required while ensuring full truckloads are released for downstream business processes in the proper sequence. 
  • Promotion demand can be fulfilled and delivered before turn business and forecasted demand is released. 
  • Combination of outbound and inbound loads to minimize unnecessary empty mileage in the system 
  • The solution provides a rich set of features that allows your company to configure what and how replenishment demands should be prioritized on a truck.
The Benefits – The solutions will provide planning and operations with answers to: 

  • Determine how many actual trucks are needed for next week’s demand 
  • Identify potential upsizing of customer’s orders to full-truck-load capacity 
  • Prioritize which line items need to be delivered in the same delivery window 
  • Create multiple trucks from larger-than-truckload purchase orders 
  • Identify the best orders to group together to fully utilize the truck 
  • Create the best mixed case pallets 
  • Provide views of truck capacity at customer service, transportation and warehousing to allow for adjustments 
  • Ensure what is built in planning is executable in the warehouse
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Features ORTEC LEO Pallet and Load Building creates optimal loads from a workload of orders and vehicle resources while considering the customer, product and vehicle specific restrictions within SAP ERP.

Especially when you have complex and heterogeneous packaged items, a large variety of transportation modes and when you need the high quality fulfillment of the customer’s service level agreements, then ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can support you with advanced planning of cost efficient goods shipping with:

The key features of ORTEC LEO Pallet and Load Building are:

  • Use of load planning algorithm based on SAP Sales Order and/or SAP Delivery
  • Automatic creation of subsequent SAP documents (SAP shipments from LEO routes, SAP deliveries from SAP Sales Orders) after commitment of planning results.
  • Strong usability for manual interaction with a graphical display component.
  • Customizable Document Status Management keeps SAP documents consistent
  • Real-time optimization (i.e. SAP rush orders) supported with the LEO Document Change Management.
  • SAP quantity split functions to process Full-Truck-Loads (FTL) using the pallet and load building optimization and with graphical support
  • Modification free SAP master data extensions for load planning relevant objects (e.g. customer, vendor, material etc.)

Some available load constraints taken into account are:
  • Material dimensions and physical restrictions (orientation, stackability, compatibility)
  • Loading equipment (carton, pallet, container) dimensions and physical restrictions (load weight, overhang)
  • Order picking (layer oriented / non-layer oriented palletizing
  • Stackability and compatibility rules
  • Loading constraints (sequencing and grouping, axle weight calculation)

Some results available in the SAP system are:

  • Detailed load graphic and item list for order picking and loading instructions
  • Quantity, content and configuration of each load unit
  • Weight and volume utilization of load unit
  • Optional picking distance and time required for order picking