For optimal inventory management processes, you need robust functionality for managing your logistics facilities. Support for inventory management helps you record and track materials on the basis of both quantity and value. Warehouse inventory management functions cover internal warehouse movements and storage.

You can reduce costs for warehousing, transportation, order fulfillment, and material handling – while improving customer service. You can significantly improve inventory turns, optimize the flow of goods, and shorten routes within your warehouse or distribution center. Additional benefits of inventory management include improved cash flow, visibility, and decision making.

For warehouse management, you can track quantity and value of all your materials, perform physical inventory, and optimize your warehouse resources. Employees can plan, enter, and document warehouse and internal stock movements by managing goods receipts, goods issues, storage, picking and packing, physical stock transfers, and transfer postings.

SAP software for inventory management also supports, in real time, the following:

• Workload planning
• Wave picking and order consolidation
• Radio frequency and bar-code scanning
• Handling-unit management
• Cross-docking

In addition to inventory management software, these other processes may interest you: