You Get What You Pay For: The Ups and Downs of Incentive Programs
One of the key concerns for many distribution practices and particularly Labor Management System users is providing effective incentives to their employees to improve productivity and throughput. The first systematic incentive programs in the United States on an industrial scale were implemented in the late 1800’s in manufacturing facilities and steel mills. Most incentive programs work the same way today – but times are changing.

Which SAP Warehouse Management Application is Right For You?
This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's newer Warehouse Management application functionality. It will also assist companies in understanding which WM application to select when it comes time to upgrade their SAP environments.

Closing the Gap with ERP eWM: YMS and Cross Docking
This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations and IT managers an understanding of the capabilities of SAP's Yard Management and Cross-Docking solutions. Introduced with Release 4.7 extension set 2.0, SAP continues to improve its Logistics offering, while minimizing the gap between Best-of-Breed software solutions. This white paper will focus on delivered out-of-the-box functionality from SAP along with ideas for business enhancements based on industry knowledge and experience. Both new solutions are fully integrated with the LES module, including SAPConsole, to provide companies additional cost savings and a more fluid supply chain, while staying within the boundaries of their initial SAP investment.

Inventory Planning & Optimization: Extending Your ERP System
By design, ERP systems are broad in their breadth of offering which results in a lack of specialized functionality in areas such as inventory planning and optimization. Learn how an inventory optimization solution can add value to your existing ERP system by helping you to recover profit from inventory, eliminate excess stock, reduce lost sales and more.

Inventory Planning & Optimization in Manufacturing
Introducing initiatives aimed at extracting profit from inventory within the manufacturing environment often creates the misconception that it is yet another exorbitant investment in software. Evaluate this perception and learn how an inventory planning and optimization solution can unlock the profit hidden within your supply chain data.

Efficient Order Fulfillment with SAP WM
Understand how to efficiently fulfill orders with SAP WM and debunk the myth that only a best-of-breed warehouse management solution is capable of efficient order fulfillment. Also learn what tools can be used to optimize order fulfillment as well as additional functionality available within SAP to further enhance this process.

Demand Management
Accurate demand forecasting and planning solutions link supply and demand so that the right products get to the right places at the right time. As the flow of products more accurately matches the demand, organizations are able to trim inventories, improve customer satisfaction and avoid nasty surprises for everyone. Learn how to forecast and plan for demand in order to eliminate excess stock, avoid unnecessary markdowns and more.

HUM and RFID, Thinking Forward with SAP WM
RFID is a hot topic for most companies today, and more companies are looking to gain additional benefits beyond compliance. Learn how SAP's Handling Unit Management solution is leveraged by SAP's RFID Auto-ID infrastructure to enable increased productivity and increased visibility.

SAP Decentralized Warehouse Management
SAP has developed a decentralized version of the Warehouse Management application (dWM), which allows your operation to run a separate instance of WM that can run 24x7 operations independant of your core ERP. For most organizations - large and small - dWM is a smart business decision because it allows critical operations to continue to run even when the ERP is down. It also can more easily be upgraded with enhancements such as SAP's Task and Resource Management module. This white paper discusses the benefits, enhanced scalability, flexible architecture and faster response time that dWM provides. It also covers technology requirements, functional limitations and what you should consider to be your key decision criteria.

Slotting: An Untapped Source of Savings in a Warehouse Environment
A logistics or plant manager is constantly under pressure to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. Although these goals seem to be diametrically opposed, this is not true. By reducing picking times and maximizing space utilization through the use of a slotting application, pick per item costs are reduced, customer satisfaction is increased, orders are fulfilled faster and there are fewer stock outs.

Component Technologies Leverage and Extend Enterprise Applications
The current dynamic competitive environment has been driving businesses toward more responsive and flexible business models to keep pace with changing customer expectations. Many new business models dictate the implementation of new, automated, and streamlined business processes in a competitive timeframe without devastating existing operations. This intricate transformation takes time, and along the way the business must also wrestle with existing systems, changing technologies, and other initiatives.

Achieving Substantial Productivity Gains and Rapid Time to Value with a Labor Management System
Today as never before logistics and distribution managers are under pressure to reduce operating costs, increase throughput and improve cycle times and customer service. While a variety of operational strategies and distribution technologies (warehouse management systems, material handling automation) can play a role in driving out costs and improving performance, a relatively new category of application, typically referred to as a Labor Management System (LMS), offers powerful tools that enable companies to achieve substantial operating cost reduction and improved service and quality through productivity improvement in distribution.

Direction in Integrated RFID Solutions
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is the most rapidly growing segment in today's automatic identification industry. The creation of the Auto-ID Electronic Product Code (EPC) Standard coupled with now affordable RFID tag costs and the mandated adoption of the Auto-ID EPC Standard by Wal-Mart for all its suppliers by 2005 will drive rapid deployment. Learn how you can turn these compliance regulations into a benefit for your supply chain operations.

Effective Benchmarking Strategies
Measurement of supply chain effectiveness has substantial and proven benefits to companies who adopt benchmarking practices. This whitepaper outlines a variety of methodologies to use in developing a benchmarking program along with ideas for selecting the appropriate metrics to measure.

Simulation in the Warehouse
A whitepaper on the usage and benefits of computer simulation in optimizing warehouse operations. The beneficial scenarios for simulation are detailed in light of the desired outcomes and technological resources available.

Optimizing Your Warehouse Operations with SAP R/3 TRM
This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP’s Task and Resource Management (TRM) application. It presents an overview of TRM and its unique capabilities and benefits, provides key insight into which organizations will reap the highest value from TRM and outlines SAP’s future release plans.

Event Driven Optimization: A New Model for Supply Chain Execution in the Retail industry
A new model for supply chain execution called event-driven optimization (EDO) proposes building a supply chain model in real time that accurately represents the current "instance state" of the execution space upon automatic notification of an adverse event, then reoptimizing those parts of the supply chain affected by the event.