Logistics IT Concepts
Intelligent. Lean. Reliable. Logistics IT – from vision to reality.
What does your IT manager dream of when it comes to logistics? Perhaps of an attractive, smart and loyal companion? In any case, your logistics IT solution should be a system your company is happy to be “married” to.
Information technology plays a decisive role in logistics today – whether in the warehouse or on the road, in intralogistics or across the external supply chain. To achieve modern logistics and user-friendly IT, we support you in designing the system solution. While we at LogistikPlan are not programmers, we do have a deep understanding of the requirements for a modern logistics IT system:
- we identify logistics-related functional requirements for IT
- define target processes and their (IT) technical environment
- and describe functional specifications (e.g. control rules and data structures)
► Objectives of logistics IT design
- Demand-oriented architecture and design of all logistics IT functions
- Integration of logistics software with adjacent, upstream and downstream systems (e.g. ERP, WMS, PPS)
- User-oriented interaction of hardware components (e.g. scanners, scales, labeling devices)
- Provision of required interfaces between different systems for data exchange
► Digitalization concepts from an expert
At LogistikPlan, the IT concepts area is covered by an expert in this field – Christoph Groß. He has more than 33 years of professional experience in IT and consulting. His consulting services focus primarily on topics related to digitalization in companies, including:
- process analyses
- requirements analyses
- return-on-investment calculations
- recommendations for IT solutions.
The objective of his consulting work is always the optimization of business processes through the use of new IT solutions.
Christoph Groß is the author of the book “Professional Software Selection and Implementation in Logistics.”
He works as a freelance consultant for LogistikPlan and also supports, among other things, the “go digital” funding program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
► Logistics IT systems as part of LogistikPlan consulting:
- Warehouse management (WMS) or warehouse control systems
- Software for warehouse organization, inventory and picking (e.g. pick by voice)
- Material flow control (MFC) and forklift guidance systems (FGS)
- Workstation equipment (e.g. mobile systems for booking, scanning, coding and labeling)
- Production planning and control (PPS, MES)
- Container management, pallet and load carrier management
- Supply chain management (SCM), telematics systems and traceability software for supply chain tracking
- Route planning, transport management, fleet management
- Truck yard management and weighing, time slot and dock management
- Quality measurement and statistics of logistics services (monitoring and reporting systems)
► Key focus areas of LogistikPlan consulting
- Definition of logistics-related functional principles and system requirements
- Structural concept and functional assignment for software systems in the areas of:
- warehouse management
- production control
- transport control
- container management
- Design of information flow aligned with material flow, e.g. as flowcharts with booking points, transactions and inspection stations
- Description of the required interfaces between information and material flow
- Selection of suitable IT equipment for logistics applications (e.g. mobile data terminals, scanners, printers, terminals)
► The concept has been approved – what comes next?
- Specification of target processes –> see Process flow planning
- Preparation of tender documents for software and hardware –> see Logistics IT specifications
- Execution of the tender process and support during contract award negotiations
- Support during implementation, system acceptance and commissioning
