Numina Group Inc., a leading developer of warehouse automation software, yesterday announced a strategic partnership with SAPNEXX, an SAP consultancy and software integrator. The companies said they will focus on users of SAP R/3 and S/4 Hana extended warehouse management, or EWM, applications that want to increase order-fulfillment efficiency.
“The collaboration between SAPNEXX’s SAP team and Numina Group addresses a critical need for North American manufacturing, logistics, and warehouse operations looking to improve productivity, accuracy, and their ability to meet growing customer demand for same-day delivery,” stated Sankar Siva, CEO of SAPNEXX, a next-generation supply chain management firm.
“By integrating SAP with Numina’s Real-time Distribution Software (RDS), we’re not just streamlining order fulfillment,” he added. “We’re [also] enabling businesses to run their end-to-end warehouse operations more profitably by reducing errors, minimizing packaging material usage, and lowering labor costs through the integration of advanced automation with their existing SAP systems.”
Irving, Texas-based SAPNEXX specializes in enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse automation, mobility solutions, e-commerce, and business analytics. The next-generation supply chain management firm said it provides expertise and technology partners to help optimize workflows, enable mobile workforces, transform digital commerce strategies, or automate warehouse operations.
Numina Group automation supports fulfillment
Industries such as medical, healthcare, electronics, and repair parts fulfillment need efficient direct-to-carton picking and mixed-case pick-to-pallet processes. Numina offers low-touch, high-accuracy automation, such as goods-to-person (G2P) systems and voice picking, integrated with its Batchbot autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
The Woodridge, Ill.-based company said its technologies can increase picking rates by up to 50% and boost accuracy to 99.9%. Its RDS platform delivers a warehouse execution system (WES) with a library of pre-developed execution and control modules.
“The SAP community now has experienced, single-source partners with complementary skills and proven expertise to increase productivity and reduce costs across their DC [distribution center] operations,” stated Dan Hanrahan, founder and CEO of Numina Group.
The company has more than 40 years of experience designing and implementing automation for omnichannel business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) order-fulfillment operations.
Numina said its U.S.-based software, electrical, mechanical, and industrial engineers define, design, and integrate fulfillment systems with SAP and other leading ERP and warehouse management systems (WMS). They also provide round-the-clock support.
SAPNEXX partners to reduce cost, complexity
Numina Group and SAPNEXX said they will deliver pre-developed integration templates for SAP business application programming interfaces (BAPIs), using a modern, well-documented RESTful Web Services API. “This proven approach reduces the cost and complexity of integrating advanced warehouse automation with SAP, while also minimizing implementation time,” the partners said.
The SAPNEXX software templates and API integrate sales orders and SKU master-level data from SAP with Numina’s RDS WES and warehouse control system (WCS). RDS includes a suite of automation modules such as pick by voice, pick to light, conveyor, sortation, and AMRs.
These optimize the pick, pack, and ship process, boosting productivity while reducing the time and cost to fulfill parcel, less-than-truckload (LTL), and full truckload orders, explained Numina.
“As global supply chains grow increasingly complex, this partnership helps accelerate the performance of warehouses that rely on SAP ERP-EWM,” said the companies. “By connecting the right blend of warehouse automation technologies to SAP, businesses can reduce costs, mitigate risk, and shorten implementation time with proven, robust, and scalable automation that gives businesses a competitive operating edge.”
“This is especially impactful for high-volume omnichannel, e-commerce, and B2B fulfillment operations with strict lot and serial tracking requirements, where same-day shipping execution is essential to meet customer delivery expectations,” they added.
The partners said the combination of SAPNEXX’s SAP integration capabilities with Numina Group’s automation modules will “result in a turnkey solution for manufacturing, kitting, and distribution operations.” They cited the following benefits:
- The SAPNEXX Connector Library unites BAPIs enabled RFC-function modules, allowing RDS’s external software and control applications to exchange data over a secure, encrypted network connection.
- Pre-developed and proven integration eliminates risk, cost, and time by using the SAP to RDS API connector and templates to implement warehouse automation versus relying on in-house or third-party SAP software development resources.
- Seamless data flow from automation can reduce manual tasks, errors, and warehouse labor costs.
- Real-time insights from the SAPNEXX dashboard provides access to real-time fulfillment activity data, including order picking, packing, dock staging, and shipping information. The companies said this enables better inventory management, order tracking, and customer service.
- Cost reductions can come from improved accuracy and faster order fulfillment, In addition, RDS’s cartonization and pallet-cubing software can select the best-sized packaging, carrier, and shipment methods, further reducing packaging and shipping costs.
“The Numina–SAPNEXX partnership delivers significant value to mid- to large-sized SAP warehouse operations that handle high-volume unit and case picking within the same facility and ship a mix of parcel and pallet orders,” said the partners.
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