Peter F. Alderman 
The Art of Logistics Optimisation with SAP Systems 
Practical Guidelines for Experts

Replace “emergency stocks” with active logistics. Reduce your delivery times down to zero or almost zero or have your orders automatically processed. Reduce your inventories drastically and show that you can control your missing parts with the right tools.

The reference book – a ‘must have’ for:
Top buyers
Professional dispatchers
Outstanding production planners
Excellent senior SAP logistics consultants
Logistics managers who would like to control and continue to optimise their logistics.
Proactive controllers who want to synchronise the value-creation with the controlling

Verify whether you can improve your logistics management to a world-class level in 10 steps with the aid of your SAP logistics software. Identify liquidity killers and eliminate them.

Plan your key indicators for the upcoming months and show that you can master the art of logistics optimisation with an SAP system.

Make your MRP controllers the best in the world.

Table of Content

Step 1: Logistics Optimisation with SAP Software in 10 Steps
Step 2: ABC / XYZ / SML Analysis
Step 3: Logistics Master Data in the SAP System
Step 4: Traffic Lights and Exceptions
Step 5: Sales Forecast and Capacity Planning
Step 6: The SAP Information System for Logistics Controlling
Step 7: Supplier and Procurement Strategies
Step 8: Missing Parts Management
Step 9: Daily Routine
Step 10: Weekly Reports and MRP Controllers’ Monitors
Project Management for Logistics Optimisation
The Art of Logistics Optimisation with SAP Systems

About the author

Peter F. Alderman
An SAP logistics expert with more than 20 years of SAP experience and a pragmatist among the SAP® consultants. His primary focus is on the users because only they are able to make a professional logistics system even better. "A system is only then very good if the person who operates it is also very good. Thus, we must focus on the person."

Thomas Luedke
A project manager, logistics expert and SAP pragmatist with many years of experience who ensures that the goals that have been set are also attained. The key factors for successful project management are open communication, the right “equipment” and confidence in the employees. “Take care of your team, and then your team will take care of the ´rest´.”

Klaus Reinschmidt
A top SAP expert for master data and migration with 30 years of SAP experience. He manages the projects as a consultant, team lead or project manager. An SAP system can only then run seamlessly if the master data are perfect.