KGP Logistics implemented the Logility Voyager demand, inventory, and supply planning system to optimize its complex wholesale distribution operations. The implementation streamlined multiple planning and procurement processes, improved visibility into customer-level demand and forecasts, and enhanced collaboration with customers and suppliers. As a result, KGP Logistics was able to improve inventory turns and service levels while maintaining contractual fulfillment rates, through advanced forecasting capabilities and improved inventory parameters enabled by the Logility system.
Webinar: Transforming Warehouse Operations with SAP EWMWise Men
Requirements for data volume, performance and process flexibility made a new architecture necessary
Extends the basic concept of Transfer Orders to enable process flexibility – moves away from just Managing Stocks to Controlling Processes
High risk to change existing architecture in a mature application (WM) with thousands of live customers
Follows on from the Decentralised SAP warehouse concept
SAP SNC is a central supply chain platform common for customers and suppliers real-time collaboration. This document shows the overview of Supply Network Collaboration(SNC) and who wants to understand the benefit of SAP SNC for customer collaboration.
Resolv Desktop & Mobility extends the depth of functionality within SAP Business One, for the Wholesale Distribution Industry. Over 20 modules from EDI, WMS, Containers, Advanced Inventory and more
Webinar: Transforming Warehouse Operations with SAP EWMWise Men
Requirements for data volume, performance and process flexibility made a new architecture necessary
Extends the basic concept of Transfer Orders to enable process flexibility – moves away from just Managing Stocks to Controlling Processes
High risk to change existing architecture in a mature application (WM) with thousands of live customers
Follows on from the Decentralised SAP warehouse concept
SAP SNC is a central supply chain platform common for customers and suppliers real-time collaboration. This document shows the overview of Supply Network Collaboration(SNC) and who wants to understand the benefit of SAP SNC for customer collaboration.
Resolv Desktop & Mobility extends the depth of functionality within SAP Business One, for the Wholesale Distribution Industry. Over 20 modules from EDI, WMS, Containers, Advanced Inventory and more
Available modules for the Resolv Desktop & Mobility suite of distribution applications for SAP Business One. Resolv is available for both SAP HANA and MS-SQL
Predavanje pod nazivom „Simplify your SCM“ održala je Olja Lapčević ispred SAP West Balkans. Predavanje se baziralo na prevazilaženju prepreka na koje nailaze lanci snabdevanja uz pomoć primene softvera za upravljanje lancem snabdevanja (SAPove Supply Chain Execution Platforme), povezivanju informacija i monitoringu u realnom vremenu.
The PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group is a product-specific users' group comprised of all PeopleSoft Enterprise customers that have licensed PeopleSoft Supply Chain products.
Covering:
Demand Planning: Tools for the forecasting of sales and use of products and items. Allows for the publishing of forecasts for use by PeopleSoft applications to balance inventory investment against customer service levels.
Allows the establishment of a balance between investments in safety stock, customer service levels, and operational efficiency while taking into account factors such as order quantities, cost of processing an order, and inventory carrying costs.
Allows optimization of procurement, distribution, and production resources to ensure that there is sufficient inventory available to fulfill demand.
Time Series Vs Order based Planning in SAP IBPAYAN BISHNU
A comparison of time series based supply planning vs Order based supply planning in SAP IBP, taking into considerations, some of the most needed solution across industries.
Cameron Hawthorne - E Bus Sales analysis with Olap and DiscoInSync Conference
Organisations that have deployed Oracle Discoverer reporting solutions in the E-Business Suite applications in their organisations over many years are asking how they can improve the performance of these solutions. One possibility is to add the Oracle OLAP Option and have the data pre-aggregated in cubes ready for instant analysis by the end users.
This presentation will showcase a recent solution that was developed to perform Sales and Purchases data analysis using Discoverer, the OLAP Option, and Oracle Warehouse Builder.
It will provide a detailed look at how to bring such a solution together and help your organisation achieve similar query performance improvements.
Proexcellency provides S4HANA EWM TRAINING.
S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING offers you flexible, automated support for processing various goods movements and for managing stocks in your warehouse complex. The system supports planned and efficient processing of all logistics activities in your warehouse. It is the most advanced and flexible of the warehouse solutions offered by SAP.
SAP S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING is designed for the execution of complex supply chain networks. It is recommended for warehouses or distribution canters with high volume in number of articles or number of parts to be moved, vast product differences (size, weight, model year, serial numbers, and country of origin, batch and valuation), complex cross docking requirements and order fulfilment processes, detailed packaging and shipping logistics.
The basic functions of the S4HANA EWM CORPORATE TRAINING are to provide solution for receiving, storage and shipping. The involved basic processes are always incoming and outgoing materials, goods receipt and goods issue, procurement and distribution. S4HANA EWM Training was introduced in October, 2006. Although it is not a replacement for the SAP standard Warehouse Management application, it represents a new generation of SAP warehouse management software.
For Joining S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING batches please feel free to call or email us.
Email : sangita@proexcellency.com,info@proexcellency.com
Phone : +91- 9148251978, 08041506795
Website: http://www.proexcellency.com/online/5e9467bd78e9ab0ebc394cd9/SAP-EWM-ONLINE-TRAINING
You've heard about SAP HANA, but how does it impact you? This presentation will introduce the technology and describe the new accelerators recently built allow for exciting new possibilities in SAP Controlling. This presentation covers:
1. Basic SAP HANA architecture and its relevance for Controlling users
2. The impact of SAP HANA on drill-down reporting in CO-PA and CO-PC
3. Tips for leveraging SAP HANA top-down distribution and assessment in CO-PA and on the costing run in the material ledger to reduce time-to-close
4. Options for using new Business Objects user interfaces to visualize data for different user groups
SAP Extended Warehouse Management offers you flexible, automated support with processing various goods movement and managing stock in your warehouse. The system supports you with planned and efficient processing of all logistics processes in your warehouse complex. EWM efficiently handles all internal process of a warehouse efficiently - goods receipt and goods issue, complex cross-docking, slotting, packing and shipping logistics, as well as cross-function activities such as labor management and analytics.
Supply Chain Management is already a common phenomenon to improve efficiency in selling. This presentation emphasizes the systematic management of such process which is well advanced today.
Available modules for the Resolv Desktop & Mobility suite of distribution applications for SAP Business One. Resolv is available for both SAP HANA and MS-SQL
Predavanje pod nazivom „Simplify your SCM“ održala je Olja Lapčević ispred SAP West Balkans. Predavanje se baziralo na prevazilaženju prepreka na koje nailaze lanci snabdevanja uz pomoć primene softvera za upravljanje lancem snabdevanja (SAPove Supply Chain Execution Platforme), povezivanju informacija i monitoringu u realnom vremenu.
The PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group is a product-specific users' group comprised of all PeopleSoft Enterprise customers that have licensed PeopleSoft Supply Chain products.
Covering:
Demand Planning: Tools for the forecasting of sales and use of products and items. Allows for the publishing of forecasts for use by PeopleSoft applications to balance inventory investment against customer service levels.
Allows the establishment of a balance between investments in safety stock, customer service levels, and operational efficiency while taking into account factors such as order quantities, cost of processing an order, and inventory carrying costs.
Allows optimization of procurement, distribution, and production resources to ensure that there is sufficient inventory available to fulfill demand.
Time Series Vs Order based Planning in SAP IBPAYAN BISHNU
A comparison of time series based supply planning vs Order based supply planning in SAP IBP, taking into considerations, some of the most needed solution across industries.
Cameron Hawthorne - E Bus Sales analysis with Olap and DiscoInSync Conference
Organisations that have deployed Oracle Discoverer reporting solutions in the E-Business Suite applications in their organisations over many years are asking how they can improve the performance of these solutions. One possibility is to add the Oracle OLAP Option and have the data pre-aggregated in cubes ready for instant analysis by the end users.
This presentation will showcase a recent solution that was developed to perform Sales and Purchases data analysis using Discoverer, the OLAP Option, and Oracle Warehouse Builder.
It will provide a detailed look at how to bring such a solution together and help your organisation achieve similar query performance improvements.
Proexcellency provides S4HANA EWM TRAINING.
S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING offers you flexible, automated support for processing various goods movements and for managing stocks in your warehouse complex. The system supports planned and efficient processing of all logistics activities in your warehouse. It is the most advanced and flexible of the warehouse solutions offered by SAP.
SAP S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING is designed for the execution of complex supply chain networks. It is recommended for warehouses or distribution canters with high volume in number of articles or number of parts to be moved, vast product differences (size, weight, model year, serial numbers, and country of origin, batch and valuation), complex cross docking requirements and order fulfilment processes, detailed packaging and shipping logistics.
The basic functions of the S4HANA EWM CORPORATE TRAINING are to provide solution for receiving, storage and shipping. The involved basic processes are always incoming and outgoing materials, goods receipt and goods issue, procurement and distribution. S4HANA EWM Training was introduced in October, 2006. Although it is not a replacement for the SAP standard Warehouse Management application, it represents a new generation of SAP warehouse management software.
For Joining S4HANA EWM ONLINE TRAINING batches please feel free to call or email us.
Email : sangita@proexcellency.com,info@proexcellency.com
Phone : +91- 9148251978, 08041506795
Website: http://www.proexcellency.com/online/5e9467bd78e9ab0ebc394cd9/SAP-EWM-ONLINE-TRAINING
You've heard about SAP HANA, but how does it impact you? This presentation will introduce the technology and describe the new accelerators recently built allow for exciting new possibilities in SAP Controlling. This presentation covers:
1. Basic SAP HANA architecture and its relevance for Controlling users
2. The impact of SAP HANA on drill-down reporting in CO-PA and CO-PC
3. Tips for leveraging SAP HANA top-down distribution and assessment in CO-PA and on the costing run in the material ledger to reduce time-to-close
4. Options for using new Business Objects user interfaces to visualize data for different user groups
SAP Extended Warehouse Management offers you flexible, automated support with processing various goods movement and managing stock in your warehouse. The system supports you with planned and efficient processing of all logistics processes in your warehouse complex. EWM efficiently handles all internal process of a warehouse efficiently - goods receipt and goods issue, complex cross-docking, slotting, packing and shipping logistics, as well as cross-function activities such as labor management and analytics.
Supply Chain Management is already a common phenomenon to improve efficiency in selling. This presentation emphasizes the systematic management of such process which is well advanced today.
The business benefits that Every Angle provides to any Supply Chain Manager are better customer service levels as well as a cost reduction and a reduction of working capital as a result of the improvement of:
Early warning for bottlenecks
*Which late suppliers are most critical?
*What are the root causes of late customer deliveries?
*Which planning deviations affect the important customers most?
*Which missing components jeopardize the production planning most?
Reliability of transaction data
*More reliable planning brings more reliable promises;
*Remove unneeded stock claims and reduce stock levels;
*Better management information;
*Less disruptions in planning and delivery;
*Reduce correction costs.
Reliability of master data;
*Better master data underpins better transaction data;
*Better and more reliable planning;
*Less ad-hoc correction cost.
Reduce inventory levels (RM/FG);
*Detect dead stocks sooner;
*Detect the creation of dead stock during the planning phase;
*Analyze excess stocks faster and easier.
Better management reporting;
*Build-in SAP knowledge to relate customer promises and goods movements;
*More accurate data;
*Ready to use Supply Chain analytics for historic and future purposes;
*Smart algorithms to help management make better decisions on a daily basis.
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2. Presentation Overview
• Company Background & Key Stats
• Drivers of Logility Voyager Implementation
• Benefits Achieved
• Q & A
3. KGP Logistics – Who We Are
• One of the country’s leading providers of Supply Chain Services to the
communication industry including logistics solutions such as:
– Product Distribution and Materials Management
– Product Integration/Manufacturing - Engineer, Furnish and Installation (EF&I) and
Assemble, Wire and Test (AWT)
– Third Party Logistics (3PL)
• Strategic relationships across broad base of OEMs, servicing over 2,500 Customers
• Manage approximately $90 million in telecommunications inventory
• Approximately 650 experienced employees
• Best-in-class distribution center operations
– 15 regional distribution centers, cross-docks, and EF&I/AWT facilities
– Over 1.8 million total square feet
– Fleet of 54 fleet vehicles for differentiated services
• TL9000 and ISO 9001:2000 certified and members of QuEST Forum and Board
• Privately owned, Certified Woman Business Enterprise (WBE)
4. Company History
KGP Logistics, Inc.
1905 Founded as Union Electric in Abilene, Kansas
1965-1977Union Electric becomes United System
Supply; merges into North Electric; North
Electric’s manufacturing divisions are sold to ITT;
North Supply remains a separate subsidiary of
United Telecom
1993 North Supply Company adopts new name,
Sprint North Supply, as United Telecom
becomes Sprint Management Company
2006 Sprint North Supply adopts new name,
EMBARQ Logistics, as Sprint-Nextel spin-off
local telephone division, EMBARQ
2009 EMBARQ Logistics is acquired by KGP
Telecommunications and renamed KGP
Logistics, Inc.
KGP Telecommunications, Inc.
1973 Founded as Great Lakes Telephone Supply, Inc.
by Kathleen and Dale Putrah in Faribault, MN
1982 KGP Telecommunications, Inc. is founded as a
woman-owned business by Kathleen G. Putrah
2009 KGP Telecommunications, Inc. purchases
EMBARQ Logistics, in New Century, KS
5. Vision & Mission
Vision
• Be the leading provider of supply chain services to the communications
industry
Mission
• Exceed Customer expectations at the lowest total cost
6. Distribution & Manufacturing Footprint
Ontario, CA
Juarez, MX
Faribault, MN
New Century, KS
Irving, TX
St. Rose, LA
Powder Springs, GA
Suwannee, GA
Fayetteville, NC
Ponte Vedra, FL
Lake Worth, FL
Warsaw, IN
Distribution Center
Integration Center (Manufacturing)
Distribution and Integration Center
Corporate Headquarters: Faribault, MN
7. Inventory Planning Statistics
• 7 Distribution Centers
• 4 Manufacturing Locations
• 15K+ Planned SKUs (soon to be 20K+)
• Over 600 Planned Suppliers (4 External Supply Nodes)
• Many constraints…
8. History of Demand, Inventory & Supply
Planning
1999-2001: Implemented first Demand, Inventory & Supply Planning system
2004-2007: Established vision to evolve planning and inventory management
function to become competitive differentiator in marketplace
2007: Analyzed gaps and established requirements
2008: Evaluated software solutions
2009: Selected Logility Voyager Demand, Inventory & Supply Planning system
9. Logility Voyager Rollout
August 2009
Project
Kickoff
February 2010
Go Live
Demand
Planning
June 2010
Go Live
Inventory
Planning &
Supply
Planning
Sept 2010
Kickoff
Expansion
Phase:
Dual ERPs &
Additional
Locations
10. Voyager Implementation Benefits
Improved Efficiency
• Streamlined Multiple Planning & Procurement Processes into One
• Shortened End-to-End Business Process Cycle Time
Improved Visibility
• Customer Level Demand and Forecasts Enabled Collaboration with Key
Customers & Suppliers
• Alerts Quickly Identified Exceptions & Decreased Number of Business Critical
Reports
Improved Inventory Turns & Service Levels
• Advanced Forecasting & Tuning Capabilities (Forecast Accuracy)
• Inventory Parameters Improved Control Over Inventory Investment & Service
Levels
11. Improved Efficiency
Streamlined 3 Different Supply Planning & Purchasing Processes into 1
Configured Alerts to Focus on Most Critical/Valuable Exceptions
• Most time spent on “A” & “B” SKUs
Shorter, More Frequent Cycle Times Removed Bottlenecks & Allowed More
Even Distribution of Workload
• Eliminated several positions through attrition & re-allocated resources to
other value-add activities
• Enabled review of more exceptions to drive higher inventory turns & service
levels
Centralized Exceptions Decreased Number of Business Critical Reports
PLANNING
MIN/MAX ERP
PURCHASING
NEG AVAIL
LOGILITY
SUPPLY
PLANNING
ERP
PURCHASING
BEFORE AFTER
12. Improved Visibility & Cycle Time
Function Frequency Before Logility Frequency with Logility
Demand
Planning
Daily Update of Demand (Two
Days in Arrears) & Working of
Exceptions
Daily Update of Demand
(Current) & Working of
Exceptions
Inventory
Planning
Once Per Month Bi-Monthly Mass Update of
Parameters; Daily Updates for
Forecast and/or Individual
Parameter Changes
Supply
Planning
Plan Refreshed Weekly;
Purchases & Transfers All
Released One Day Per Week
Complete Plan Refreshed Daily;
Purchases & Transfers Released
per Staggered Order Cycles or
Daily to Fulfill Backorders
13. Improved Visibility – Customer Level
Adding “Customer” to Lowest Level of DP Pyramid Enabled Collaboration
• Visibility to specific customers driving exceptions enabled quicker decisions or
identified the need to collaborate on specific SKUs
• Started monthly demand and forecast reviews with key customers and sales
support teams to improve awareness, visibility, and collaborative decisions
• Customers with largest value (spend and inventory investment) and contractual service
levels
• High level categories that are most meaningful (types of orders, product groupings, key
OEMs)
• Demand (actual and adjusted) and forecasts reflected in extended value
• Monthly views as well as daily average per month views (monthly view skews month-
to-month variances due to 4-4-5 week calendar)
• “What if” scenarios to assess impact of recommendations
• Enhanced key supplier collaboration by sharing customer level forecasts (as well
as aggregate planned purchases)
14. Improved Turns & Service Levels
Ability to “Control” Forecasts at Levels & Combinations Other Than SKU
• Customer • Supplier
• Product Group • Product Class
Demand Profiles to Guide Forecasts
• Over 1/3 of SKUs have less than 12 months of demand history
Variety of Forecast Models ,Tuning, and Inventory Parameters Provide Better
“Fit” for Wide Range of Demand Patterns
• Technician Truck Stocking • Network Maintenance
• Warehouse /Stock Yard Replenishment • Customer Site Installation Projects
• Retail Store Stock • Consumer Fulfillment
• Network Upgrade/Build-out Projects • Seasonal Storm Preparation/Recovery
• Over 80% of SKUs have low forecast confidence
• Mixture of seasonal and non-seasonal
• High number of SKUs purchased by single customer (little demand aggregation)
15. Improved Turns & Service Levels
Improved Inventory Turns
• 0.22 increase in inventory turns in 3 full months following complete “go live”
• 0.74 increase in inventory turns in subsequent 5 months
Maintained contractual service levels of 95-98% order line fulfillment rates
• Improved service levels by 0.05% in first 3 months (over 96% prior to “go live”)
• Worked in following months to optimize inventory parameters - lowering inventory
where service levels were unnecessarily exceeding targets
• Maintained contractual service levels across product mix, despite experiencing
industry wide component shortages for key network electronic products
Refining forecast accuracy metrics and establishing relevant baseline
• Forecast vs. demand dollars (aggregate, product group, key customers)
• SKU level MAPE by units (12+ or <12 months of demand history)
KGP’s 2500+ customers include telecommunications companies (large national companies to small rural companies/municipalities/contractors); providers of wireless, cable TV, broadband, and data services; as well as OEMs that service the communications industry
In addition to wholesale distribution services we also function as an outsourced supply chain operation for management of minor and major materials for some of the nations largest communications companies
We “manufacture” or integrate products in a number of our locations as well
We also provide 3PL warehouse management , order fulfillment, and transportation services for customer owned inventory that oftentimes complement products we sell –providing complete order shipment from a single facility
KGP has been in business since the early 1900s
Many name changes, most recently from Sprint to Embarq
At the time Embarq was acquired by Century Tel to become CenturyLink, Logistics division was acquired by KGP Telecommunications and became KGP Logistics
Private business owned by Kathleen G. Putrah, headquartered out of Faribault, MN
Purchasing Logility Voyager was a strategic decision to support KGP’s mission of being the lowest cost provider by bringing additional optimization too our Inventory Management capabilities
You will see we have a footprint of DCs and Manufacturing facilities primarily within the domestic US
Current view of locations—planned DC expansions into PA next month and into NW later in the year
Outside of a few customer outside the US (i.e., Puerto Rico, Guam), customer base is domestic
KGP has a house brand of product we have manufactured outside of US that expands our supply path internationally
Aggregation of the 4 supply nodes is based primarily on differences in the order cycles/supply calendars (i.e., suppliers purchase daily-weekly, purchase monthly) or have unique planning requirements (i.e., international, free inbound freight allowances)
Most significant supply constraint is vendor minimum order values
From an SP perspective, we release planned orders in ERP that become firm purchases or transfers automatically with very little manual touches - - solve for the constraints in SP, helping streamline process as much as possible
First Demand, Inventory & Supply Planning system implementation was led by team of consultants as part of major multi-system transformation project
Logility implementation - design and implementation project led by internal team with Logility consulting support
2004-2007 - Series of events and changes established long-term objective to evolve supply chain planning and inventory management function to become “best in class” and provide competitive advantage in marketplace (capabilities, customer service results and financial performance)
Gap analysis involved formal benchmarking, best-in-class research, and development of target future state
2008-2009 – Project was “on hold” while our company was going through its acquisition
Typical implementation would have gone faster, but delays came as part of post-acquisition state in which we started the project (e.g., migration of network infrastructure and architecture to enable virtual desktop computing and change server platforms)
Not reflective of how fast could have gone if future state architecture would have been in place
Expect completion of expansion phase currently in to complete in May if all goes as planned (again dictated by other system changes that are predecessors)
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Be prepared for questions about frequency of IP updates
Customers – units are not nearly as meaningful as extended value; SKU and Products to detailed
Suppliers – units by individual part number is most meaningful – aggregate view for all customers with breakouts for some select customers that are largest drivers of usage
25 OEMs make up 80% of inventory investment
Truck Stock – minor materials for repairs and installations
Consumer – DSL Installation Kits, cordless phones
Retail stores – wireless handsets
Network maintenance or upgrade projects – minor and major materials, sporadic or project specific usage levels
High % of inventory value also tied to SKUs with low forecast confidence
All make demand planning very challenging
