Supply Chain Fundamentals : Logistic & Transportation

Explore how manufacturing planning aligns raw materials with demand, from forecasting to demand and supply planning, while tracking adjustments and capacity constraints to avoid the bullwhip effect.

Stock transfer moves material between locations within a single entity or between entities under a parent. Intra transfers are internal; intercompany transfers involve selling and buying with accounting implications.

Explain toll manufacturing and subcontracting, showing how ownership of material stays with the original company, and how stock transfer orders and logistics connect factories to local warehouses.

Understand transfer pricing between headquarters and subsidiaries, including manufacturing, distributors, and EU models, to balance profit, ownership transfer, and tax implications.

Explore the challenges of international trade and how the letter of credit guarantees payment across borders, addressing export complexities, documentation, and compliance.

Explore how a letter of credit, a SAP financial document opened with fr underscore create, guarantees payment for cross-border sales orders.

Explore the three main letter of credit types: normal, standby, and bank guarantee, including how each handles credit limits, replenishment, and payment safeguards in supply chain transactions.

Explore the supply chain EDI architecture and end-to-end EDI solution, focusing on middleware, encoding, and transmission that convert purchase orders to sales orders, invoices, and related workflows.

Learn how EDI architecture supports supply chain data exchange by detailing transmission methods, from TCP/IP and XML to FTP and email, and how middleware translates diverse standards into SAP idocs.

Explore the end-to-end supply chain using EDI, idocs, and interfaces, mapping MDI to SAP idocs, and covering purchase and sales orders, deliveries, freight forwarding, and invoicing.

This lecture explains the demand side of the supply chain via sales orders and purchase orders from both perspectives. It covers header and line data, validation, availability, and delivery.

Apply the learned stock allocation concepts to Widget Inc's sales model, deciding when to allocate, when to reallocate, and how to handle stock outages.

Explore how delivery dates drive sales orders, stock availability, and logistics, balancing picking, packing, transport lead times, and ERP calculations for on-time delivery.

Incoterms define where goods are delivered and who pays charges, duties, taxes, and insurance, ranging from X works to ddp, with dp, fca, fas, fob, and c terms.

Explore allocation of stock to sales orders, guided by make-to-order and make-to-stock policies, and learn prioritization, first-come-first-serve, back-order, and quota rules.

Explore when to allocate stock to sales orders and how reallocation reshuffles stock by priority, with allocations at order creation, at reallocation time, and upon material receipt.

Prioritize emergency sales orders over stock, ensure eight-hour delivery, deallocate stock to emergencies, and shift to make to order when stock is unavailable, using back orders to allocate stock.

Differentiate logistics and transportation by describing logistics as planning and execution of movement within premises, including demand, picking, routing, and packing; transportation as vehicle selection, route determination, and pricing.

Understand the difference between deliveries and shipments, and how grouping or splitting orders optimizes logistics through the warehouse, multiple ship-tos, stock availability, and delivery methods.

Learn when to create deliveries, the drop, balancing flexibility and capacity as allocation shifts from soft to hard and ownership moves to the warehouse for picking, packing, and transport.

Define the cut off time for passing orders to the warehouse, balancing capacity, allocations, and transport windows to meet emergency and stock orders for Widget Inc.

Identify warehouse basics through bin and shelf nomenclature, distinguish loose picking and pallet picking shelves, and follow the flow from picking and replenishment to packing, loading, and inbound processing.

The lecture traces the warehouse outbound flow from inbound receiving to loading, detailing put away, repicking bin, refill or overflow bin, picking, sorting, value added, packing, and transport optimization.

Learn how warehouse picking works, from full unit pallet picks to loose picking and pick face layouts, using a pick list with location, article number, quantity, and weight.

Explore warehouse picking optimization through routing strategies and technologies, from simple pick lists to automated systems, including barcode-enabled laser scanning, voice and light picking, and hybrid human and automation solutions.

Explore how warehouse picking strategies: piece picking, multiple order picking, cluster picking, zone picking, wave picking, and sortation align with warehouse policies and complexity to optimize throughput and packing.

Demonstrates consolidated and wave-based picking to optimize warehouse throughput by grouping picks into pick waves, balancing bin locations, and measuring unit of work for capacity planning.

Explore diverse warehouse picking strategies—piece picking, multiple order picking, cluster picking, zone picking, and wave picking, plus sortation—driven by policies and complexity to optimize throughput and packing for shipping.

Packing follows picking, using standardized handling units like pallets and containers to enable space-efficient, safe transport and tracking via cc numbers, barcodes, and rf IDs in IT systems.

Learn how to choose external packaging and protective materials to safeguard items during transit, balancing space, weight, and price, while using packaging indicators and handling-unit considerations.

Examine non-returnable packaging included in sale and returnable packaging options, including outright sale or consignment. Learn to track, manage lead times, and use IT systems for packaging assets.

Label each handling unit with from and to addresses, total weight, unit count, and internal and external tracking numbers; labeling depends on provider, and deliveries may consolidate into SSK numbers.

Explore the supply chain network by examining nodes such as distribution centers, factories, overflow and bonded warehouses, 3pl facilities, and learn how coverage, cost, capability, IT, and complexity drive design.

Explore how Widget Inc designs a supply chain network by balancing eight working hours for critical orders and one-to-two-day stock orders, with parts from China and the UK, Manchester factory.

Assess a one distribution center model in Manchester to satisfy eight-hour emergency orders across the UK and Ireland, with Dublin as a potential small warehouse or 3PL option.