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SAP Shipping Integration

Experience the value of ERP-integrated solutions, with access to real-time shipping functions like:

Printing labels, Producing proof of delivery, Tracking parcels, Creating shipments, Quoting shipping rates

SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) software performs payroll, accounting, and other processes to streamline business operations. It’s little surprise that many companies have adopted this software as a go-to solution for essential tasks.

 

ShipERP Core lets you expand your SAP software’s capabilities even more. It provides businesses with advanced SAP shipping solutions that set the standard for performance and innovation. We want our customers to maximize their supply chain accuracy because your company’s success is our success.

Why You Need SAP Shipping Integration Solutions

When you invest in our ERP-integrated solutions, you gain access to unbelievable benefits, including:

 

  • Cost savings: Our SAP shipping solution enables you to compare carrier rates, allowing you to easily determine the most cost-effective method for sending your parcels, saving you time and money.
  • Streamlined shipping: End-to-end shipping integrations, like ShipERP, streamline the shipping process by minimizing or eliminating manual tasks, making the shipping life cycle more efficient.
  • Improved views: These integrated solutions combine all your tracking, shipping, and label creation tools into a single, cohesive overview, allowing you to view all data with ease.
  • Minimize mistakes: By automating processes and implementing fixed approaches to specific shipping processes, ShipERP helps minimize errors and ensure prompt processing times.
  • Unified shipping approach: With ShipERP, an ERP shipping integration that connects directly to your SAP system, you unify your shipping approach, eliminating unnecessary steps and maximizing the value of your existing systems.

 

Using ERP shipping integrations has numerous advantages, from reducing work to improving efficiency and unifying your existing systems.

What Is ShipERP Core, the SAP Shipping Solution?

Experience efficient, easy-to-use shipping integration with our SAP shipping integration solution. ShipERP Core seamlessly integrates with your existing SAP system, providing up-to-date, multi-carrier connections to all parcel carriers. 

 

You can integrate ShipERP with SAP and other shipping ERP software to:

Compare Rates

Our SAP shipping solution enables you to view rates for over 250 shipping carriers from a single interface. This functionality makes it easy to find and choose the carrier that offers the best rate, lowering your shipping costs.

Create Export Documentation

The SAP shipping software automatically generates export documents for all shipments. The software also automatically sends the appropriate documents, allowing you to focus on more pressing tasks.

Track Shipments

Never wonder what happened to a shipment again. The software generates tracking numbers so you can trace all freight and parcel shipments within ShipERP Transaction and SAP native delivery.

Coordinate Shipping

Along with comparing carrier rates, you can consolidate shipment data and manage orders from a single dashboard with ShipERP. Enhanced visibility into shipping options gives you better control throughout your operations.

ShipERP Core integrates seamlessly with SAP systems without middleware. It’s entirely written in SAP’s native programming language of ABAP and utilizes SAP’s existing web services to transact with any integrated carriers, including DHL, Amazon, FedEx, and UPS.

 

Once you’ve chosen your carrier, ShipERP Core’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodology enables ShipERP to integrate with their systems as well. These systems provide real-time processing of shipments and tracking every step of the way. Additionally, you will even receive Proof of Delivery from the shipping point for each individual shipment.

How Does ShipERP Core Work Within the SAP Shipping Process?

ShipERP Core integrates seamlessly with SAP systems without middleware.  It’s written completely in SAP’s native programming language of ABAP and utilizes SAP’s existing web services to transact with any integrated carriers, including DHL, Amazon, FedEx, and UPS.

 

Once you’ve chosen your carrier, ShipERP Core’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodology enables ShipERP to integrate with their systems, as well. These systems provide real-time processing of shipments and tracking every step of the way. Additionally, you will even receive Proof of Delivery from the shipping point for each individual shipment.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Our SAP Shipping Solutions

As you get started with ShipERP, it’s common to have questions. We’ve compiled some answers to the most commonly asked questions.

What If a Carrier Is Not Ready for SAP Shipping?

If a carrier does not support a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), ShipERP Core can also utilize XML via HTTP POST or EDI processing to communicate. Other carrier integration options include carrier-generated tracking numbers or pre-generated tracking numbers loaded into ShipERP.

 

Regardless of the integration method, the SAP shipping software ShipERP Core can support it.

Does ShipERP Core Provide Required Documentation?

ShipERP Core provides all necessary documentation and proof of delivery, allowing you to report compulsory shipping details with ease. The shipping software will provide you with the records you need to ensure your company remains compliant, from shipping labels to export documents. 

 

The documentation ShipERP provides includes:

 

  • All required export documentation
  • Enterprise carrier rates
  • Shipment creation and cancellation
  • Carrier label printing within SAP
  • Bill of Lading and commercial invoices printing
  • Certificate of Origin, NAFTA Certificate of Origin, etc.
  • Manual shipments (no delivery required)
  • Return label printing
  • Domestic and international shipment reporting
  • Reporting on carrier performance, tracking, and more
  • Enterprise track and trace and Proof of Delivery reporting
  • Electronic commercial invoices
  • Track and Trace within SAP native delivery (VL02N/VL03N) transaction and ShipERP transaction
  • Proof of Delivery within SAP native delivery (VL02N/VL03N) transaction and ShipERP transaction

 

Easy access to documentation leads to more efficient shipment and transaction management and a streamlined enterprise shipping process.

Why Choose ShipERP Core as Your SAP Shipping Software?

ShipERP Core makes SAP shipping easier, more organized, and more efficient than ever before. Just by integrating ShipERP Core into your current SAP shipping software, you’ll:

Save time

Save on labor costs thanks to ShipERP's efficiency. Your team can process more orders in significantly less time.
Jennifer Barstosch
Transportation Management (SAP/TM) Lead at A.O. Smith

Confirm delivery

Verify that your shipments make it to their destinations with ShipERP. You receive insight into a product's roadmap, from sales order processing through truckload or LTL processing.
Tim Thomas
VP of Information Technology at MCR Safety

Reduce Labor Costs​

ShipERP helps to reduce the cost of shipping, particularly at high-volume shipping locations. The software cuts down on the need for packing labor and can allow you to consolidate multiple shipping locations into one.
Kumar Prashant
ERP/SAP Solutions Architect at Belimo Americas

Improve accuracy

ShipERP makes it easy to configure carrier services, ensuring greater accuracy.
Todd Boesiger
IT Manager of SAP Applications at Scentsy

Overcome Shipping Challenges With ShipERP

When you work with shipping and SAP, you’ve likely encountered a few common pain points. ShipERP is specifically designed to simplify the shipping process and eliminate pain points like:

 

Integration Challenges

Many SAP shipping integration solutions lack the simplicity needed for easy use. They may require middleware or struggle to fuse with SAP, thanks to differences in their native coding. When you work with ShipERP, you eliminate this potential issue.

 

ShipERP is written in SAP’s native programming language (ABAP), allowing it to integrate seamlessly with the system. You can access all your data within the SAP platform, without any integration mishaps.

 

Difficult Systems

One primary concern many employers express is that a shipping integration may be overly complex and difficult to understand. While this is often true of shipping software, ShipERP is different. As a native integration that operates directly within the SAP platform, our software is easy to learn and requires little training.

 

Poor Data Quality

Many companies complain about shipping integrations that fail to stay current and reflect inaccurate information. Through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and direct connections to shipping carriers, ShipERP remains consistently current, providing the most accurate information and helping you manage shipments effectively.

Take Your Shipping Tools From
Complicated to Integrated With ShipERP Core

With an SAP shipping integration solution, you can take a disconnected range of tools and turn them into a single, cohesive platform. Unlock the power of single-platform management to experience efficiency, cost, and customer satisfaction benefits.

 

Schedule a demo today, or contact us to discuss our range of integrations and how they can improve your shipping process.

Frequently Asked Questions

ShipERP performs rate quoting with various integrated and generic carriers within SAP. Once a carrier and service is selected by ShipERP, the order is processed with complete tracking details.


You will then experience visibility with track & trace, as well as a Proof of Delivery for each shipment.

We are confident that you can achieve a reduction in warehouse/operations labor based on the implementation of ShipERP and the best practices associated with that implementation. The fully-featured shipping software (ShipERP) is compatible with the following hardware/software environments:


Hardware:
NetWeaver server
Barcode scanners at each pack/ship terminal (Optional)
Barcode printers (Zebra preferred)
Scales (Optional)
Workstations running SAP GU


Software:
SAP S/4HANA or
SAP ECC 6.0 or
SAP ECC 5.0 or
SAP EWM or
SAP TM

What’s nice about ShipERP is that it is written completely in ABAP, the native programming language for SAP. Core to its technology is the use of web services within SAP to directly communicate and transact business with the major carriers that support this technology. By following Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodology it enables the ShipERP application to integrate seamlessly with carriers and provide real-time processing of shipments and tracking.


If a carrier does not support a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) the ShipERP product can also utilize XML via HTTP POST or EDI processing to communicate with the carriers. Other options for integration include tracking number generation using carrier algorithms or pre-generated tracking numbers loaded into ShipERP. Whatever the method of integration is, ShipERP can support it.

We excel in providing enhanced supply chain execution with ShipERP, the cross industry shipping solution. Industries that we serve, but are not limited to include:


Food and Beverage
Transportation and Logistics
Manufacturing
Aerospace
Life Science
Automotive
Retail
Consumer Products
Medical Device
Chemical
HVAC
Entertainment/Audio
…and more!

Get in touch with a helpful account executive to discuss options and view a demo.

How long it takes to install our SAP shipment tracking solution depends on your company’s requirements. Typically, it takes about eight weeks to implement ShipERP Core into a single location, including project kick-off and going live. Eight weeks is generally considered a fast turnaround for SAP, as SAP implementation typically takes upwards of six months to complete.

 

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