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Many organizations use SAP ERP to manage replenishment and customer orders. Typically, they extend SAP ERP with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) for forecasting purposes, and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) to plan freight units and freight orders. Often, they also use the Transport Load Builder (TLB) module (part of APO), which builds transportation loads based on pre-defined parameters such as weight and volume.
By Dick Zijlstra, Director of Value Realization and Senior Account Manager at ORTEC
Driven by our belief in the role technology and mathematics can play in addressing broader societal challenges, ORTEC signs the Microsoft Partner Pledge. The Microsoft Partner Pledge is a statement of intent in which Microsoft and partners start the movement to use tech as a force for good.
Zoetermeer, 6 December 2021 – ORTEC is awarded with a new gold medal by EcoVadis, an independent sustainability rating agency that assesses over 75,000 companies worldwide. In this new assessment ORTEC scores as high as in previous assessments – maintaining our gold rating.
“In the past, our people focused their attention on electricity, before evolving to electricity and gas. Now, we work on the entire energy system, including hydrogen and heat.”
From the back office of the country’s energy system to a knowledge owner in energy: Stedin is transforming at a breakneck pace. “In the few years that I have been working at Stedin, I have seen investments double in size.” Although grid operators play a major role in the energy transition, Peters is quick to stress that it will require a collective effort. “Everyone will experience the added value we can contribute to the energy transition, but we are keenly aware that, as a grid operator, we could never do it alone.”
Interview with David Peters, Chief Transition Officer at Stedin Group
To reflect on the year 2021 and inspire you, we share our best insights of the year: our top 10 best read articles. Happy reading!
The 5 things we learned from our customers during the ORTEC Global Retail Summit 2021:
Last month, we organized the 4th ORTEC Global Retail Summit. Over 150 people from 24 different countries and 52 retail companies registered. Read on to get the key insights and learnings from the event.
Workforce scheduling is crucial in the transportation and retail logistics industries, where efficiency and customer service are paramount to remaining competitive. These industries, however, are plagued by labor shortages. These staffing pressures have worsened since the pandemic. At the same time, the pandemic has given the e-commerce boom further momentum. Truck drivers are in high demand and hard to come by. Warehouses are also struggling with staffing shortages. How can you improve warehouse employee scheduling and driver scheduling to achieve productivity in this context? How can you attract skilled workers? The key to productive workforce scheduling in transportation and retail logistics lies in a comprehensive workforce management solution.
By Merlijn Gootjes
The push toward e-commerce will remain strong in the coming years. Customer service expectations, like same day deliveries, will also increase. How can retailers, and grocery retailers in particular, stay profitable, while transforming into home delivery and omni-channel operations? Dynamic time slot booking, also called timeslotting, can be a powerful tool. This article gives answers on how dynamic time slot booking improves service and efficiency in e-logistics.
This article is powered by Goos Kant, Professor Logistic Optimization Tilburg University & Managing Partner ORTEC
Earlier this year, AIMMS teamed up with ORTEC to develop an S&OP maturity assessment. S&OP is especially relevant for companies that have a very diverse product portfolio and complex production processes. A mismatch between demand and supply can be very costly in such cases. So far, professionals from around the world have taken the assessment. Although most respondents are from the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the insights are relevant for many sectors.
Read the insights and key trends on the AIMMS website
ORTEC introduces Data and AI in the Boardroom. An ORTEC magazine to support senior executives to cope with the challenges, opportunities and risks of data and artificial intelligence, enhancing decision-making to secure long-term, sustainable growth in today's fast-changing world.