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DB Schenker Logistics becomes a 3PL leader with Aptean
技术
- 功能应用 - 仓库管理系统 (WMS)
适用行业
- 汽车
- 消费品
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 物流运输
- 仓库和库存管理
用例
- 库存管理
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
- 仓库自动化
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
挑战
DB Schenker Logistics 希望扩大其第三方物流 (3PL) 业务并提高其满足客户要求的能力。该公司希望建立一个强大的客户入职模型,并开发一个仓库管理系统,使客户的供应链运营能够转变为更高的绩效。DB Schenker Logistics 还希望通过投资新设施来提高客户和设施之间的协同效应,这些设施可用于通过共享资源和系统为多个客户提供服务。这对集成客户的 ERP 系统以确保数据质量并避免重复订单输入和主数据管理工作提出了挑战。
关于客户
DB Schenker Logistics 是德国铁路公司 Deutsche Bahn AG 的全资子公司。该公司整合了德国铁路的所有运输和物流业务,拥有超过 94,600 名员工,分布在约 130 个国家的 2,000 个地点,营业额达 198 亿欧元。该公司为工业和贸易提供定制的物流解决方案,并为汽车、消费/零售、电子、工业和医疗保健行业开发了全面的个性化解决方案组合。服务范围涵盖价值链的所有阶段,从采购、生产和分销物流到售后服务。其核心竞争力是规划和执行复杂的全球供应链。
解决方案
DB Schenker Logistics 选择 Aptean 的 iWMS 作为其欧洲北部地区的首选仓库管理系统。iWMS 现已作为多客户和多站点生产系统在瑞典、英国和爱尔兰的所有 DB Schenker Logistics 业务中实施。多年来,站点和客户不断增加或减少,集成方式不断变化,业务流程不断修改,软件不断升级——所有这些都使用同一个系统完成。一些客户要求最初是通过开发定制代码来满足的,但通过与 Aptean 的敏捷联合开发合作,这些要求很快变成了产品的标准功能。由于仓库、员工和设备被视为共享资源,DB Schenker Logistics 可以全面了解各个站点的工作量和容量,从而实现更好的利用率和跨客户协同效应。
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