1. SAP Business Transformation Study | Professional Services | Schnellecke Group | PUBLIC
How Does a Leading Logistics Services Provider Create a Transparent Supply Chain?
In a rapidly growing global economy, every manufacturer needs a fast, reliable, and cost-effective way to control its product flows along the whole supply chain. That’s why automakers and other industries around the world turn to Schnellecke Group AG and Co. KG for value-added logistics and assembling services. Schnellecke Group is an internationally operating, family-owned company with the comprehensive expertise to help its customers design logistics solutions more efficiently. To stay at the forefront of trends in supply chain management, including the Internet of Things (IoT), the company needed to transform its core business processes. Using SAP® Innovation Services, Schnellecke implemented its unique Just-in-Sequence process based on IoT technologies that run on SAP Cloud Platform for its own supply chain. Now, the company has digital-ized core business processes and access to real-time data. What’s more, its Just-in-Sequence process provides customers with the transparency, reliability, and efficiency necessary to succeed today – and Schnellecke with the flexibility to shape the future of logistics tomorrow.

2. 70
Company sites in 15 countries worldwide
“As a third-generation, family-owned company, we do not think in quarterly periods but in the long term. Digital- ization of our core business processes is of high strategic importance.”
Karsten Keil, CIO, Schnellecke Group AG and Co. KG
Third
Generation, family-owned business 79
Years of logistics experience
Using SAP® Innovation Services from the SAP Digital Business Services organization, Schnellecke developed the unique Just-in-Sequence process to run on SAP Cloud Platform. Now, it can offer its customers state-of-the-art logistics services based on the Internet of Things and provide a road map for the future development of supply chain management.

3. Creating a Transparent Supply Chain with SAP® Innovation Services
Early
Detection of disruption to prevent downtime
Schnellecke Group AG and Co. KG
Wolfsburg, Germany
Industry
Professional services
Products and Services
Supply logistics, packaging logistics, module assemblies, sequencing, spare parts logistics, transport logistics, and production
Employees
16,278
Revenue
€936 million
SAP® Solutions and Services
SAP® Innovation Services, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP ERP application, and SAP Digital Business Services organization
To offer a full range of services for efficient supply chains and value-added chains in the automotive and other industry sectors, Schnellecke used SAP Innovation Services from the SAP Digital Business Services organization to help it create logistics processes that run on SAP Cloud Platform. Now, the company and its customers have a clear way forward for the future of supply chain development.
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
Sought digitalization of core business processes
Needed to develop and implement the unique Just-in-Sequence process from delivery to stocking, consignment, and line feeding
Required a solution to monitor and provide holistic and real-time data
Why SAP
Guided approach of SAP Innovation Services to help Schnellecke implement Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and build a road map for development
Unique IoT capabilities to make supply chain processes more operationally efficient and transparent
Visualization and analytics of data on SAP Cloud Platform
After: Value-Driven Results
Increased transparency with the aid of enhanced insight into the transportation and location of individual boxes, the quantity of boxes, and the order in which they are picked
Identified areas for improvement, including storage capacities and transport intervals, by analyzing historical data
Reduced manufacturing downtime with early detection of shortages and disruptions
Decreased
Cost of production and distribution
Real-time
Monitoring of the whole supply chain
“Using SAP Innovation Services, we were able to implement IoT technologies on SAP Cloud Platform to create our Just-in-Sequence supply chain process and build a road map for future development. ”
Karsten Keil, CIO, Schnellecke Group AG and Co. KG