White Paper

Task and Resource Management: Optimizing Your Warehouse Operations with SAP R/3 TRM

Source: Catalyst International
This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's Task and Resource Management (TRM) application. It presents an overview of TRM and its unique capabilities and benefits, provides key insight into which organizations will reap the highest value from TRM and outlines SAP's future release plans.

The paper includes the following information:

What Is Task and Resource Management?
SAP's latest step toward logistics optimization, TRM strengthens the LES/WM solution via optimal task execution and resource deployment.

TRM's Unique Capabilities.
TRM offers unique features for optimized materials movement, a transparent view of warehouse processes and value added services support.

TRMs Value.
Bottom line, TRM will optimize your warehouse and distribution operations, improve your customer and partner relations and provide cost savings.

Is TRM Right For Your Warehouse?
Warehouse operations with a high level of distribution activity, volume, operational complexity and value added services are the best fit for TRM.

The Future of TRM.
By first quarter 2004, SAP expects to release Yard Management, Cross Docking and Enhanced Value Added Services to further strengthen the application.

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About the Author
Catalyst International has long been recognized as an industry leader in warehouse management and SAP R/3 implementation consulting with noted expertise in SAP's Logistics Execution System (LES), Warehouse Management (WM), and now Task and Resource Management (TRM).

As one of the few SAP-certified LES implementation partners worldwide, Catalyst was a key player in SAP's internal, pre-release testing stage for TRM in Walldorf, Germany and is currently involved in the rollout of TRM with an R/3 Enterprise ramp-up customer. Catalyst also played an integral role with pre-release testing of SAP's native radio frequency data collection product SAPConsole and was the first to implement it with a customer using R/3 release 4.6.