What is Siemens Digital Logistics (SDL)?

Imagine that you are organizing a big party and need to ensure that every detail is in the right place and at the right time. Now expand this to a global scale, involving factories, warehouses, carriers and customers around the world. This is the challenge of modern supply chains. Siemens Digital Logistics (SDL) offers advanced solutions to simplify and optimize these logistics operations, helping companies scan their supply chains and stay ahead.

SDL has been designed for any type of industry, built in a modular and scalable way. This means that it is possible to start with steps and evolve as the process gains maturity. Let's explore each of your modules, features and benefits here.

Starting with Ax4

A logistics control tower that acts as a super organizer and plays the role not only of TMS (Transportation Management System), but also a multi-entrepreneur collaboration network (Multi-Periprise Collaboration Network, or MCN). (To understand more about logistics and its systems, click here) . This solution connects all parties involved - suppliers, carriers, warehouses, customers - on a single accessible platform from anywhere, including via mobile application to carriers. This means that everyone involved can see what is happening and what should be done. If something gets out of the rails or needs adjustments, the information is shared immediately, allowing quick corrective actions.

Who wouldn't want to have real -time visibility? With SDL, this is possible. Scan your supply chain to create end -to -end transparency, providing a solid basis for decision making. Follow all steps, from material sending by suppliers to end customer delivery, helping to achieve operational excellence.

Also, all this information can be integrated easily. AX4 is easily integrated into existing systems such as ERPs, WMS, APS, transporters and other logistics management systems. It facilitates communication between companies and serves as a link between systems and supply chain participants. Reliably plan the subsequent steps in the warehouse, production, manufacturing or client site.

We know that it is necessary to generate and transmit a multitude of documents. With AX4, you can generate and transmit all the necessary documents for input and exit transportation operations: collection orders, delivery notes, boarding knowledge and labels. Rules -based validations and automations accelerate their logistics processes and guarantee soft operations.

It would be ideal if transporters and suppliers update dates and quantities to help with crucial decisions, right? With AX4, all partners in the supply chain have access to the same information, facilitating communication and coordination. With more than 500,000 users, the AX4 collaboration platform combines virtual and physical worlds, improving cooperation between companies and increasing supply chain visibility.

It is noteworthy that AX4 has several native modules:

Purchase Order Management: Supply Networks Control with suppliers and carriers, automating from release requests to collection planning and creation of invoices. Use the centralized management of purchase orders to confirm supplier order confirmation, addition of shipping instruction, creation of delivery notes, and providing a transportation order management platform for collection orders.

Inbound Transport Management: Ensure the supply of your facilities with end -to -end visibility. Monitor and control multimodal transportation with milestones and real -time tracking information.

Outbound Transport Management: Improve delivery reliability and customer satisfaction. Integrate data from all parties involved, automate recurring tasks and provide cross status updates.

Scheduling and Dock Management: Reduce unnecessary waiting times by managing input and exit vehicles. Reserve and release schedules efficiently, controlling traffic flows.

Freight Cost Settlement: Create transparency in freight costs with personalized and automatic calculations, generating invoices and credits based on accurate data.

Xcargo

In addition to these, if your company needs to do various analysis for decision making and evaluate different scenarios, especially involving routes and costs, there is also the Xcargo module, which supports these processes and works integrated with AX4.

It offers advanced features for logistical analysis, allowing you to calculate transportation costs, plan routes and optimize warehouse location quickly and efficiently. With map view, you can identify where customers and suppliers are, facilitating logistics planning. We know that shipping tables and cost calculations can be complex, but Xcargo allows the creation of tariff comparison scenarios, budget planning and route optimization, whether they are collection or delivery.

Supply Chain Suite (SCS)

SDL is designed to look at end -to -end logistics, including long term, with planning and optimization. In this case, we have the Supply Chain Suite (SCS) portfolio.

After establishing a solid basis of data and historical, the journey can continue with SCS, an advanced set of tools to plan and optimize all aspects of your supply chain. Here we can create a “digital twin” of operation logistics, enabling to simulate different scenarios, predict problems and find the best solutions to increase efficiency and sustainability.  

It is not easy to know where to position your suppliers, warehouses or define your logistics mesh for the best service. With follow -up features of all input and output movements, we use this information to develop more efficient routes and transport plans, optimizing the costs associated with transportation, regardless of the modal used. We also emphasize the functionality of environmental impact assessment, helping to find ways to reduce carbon footprint.

Where to start?

Now that we know SDL a little better, the question arises: Where to start? If you seek scanning, improve your data reliability and centralize information, AX4 is the perfect starting point . This solution offers real-time visibility and collaboration, easily integrating with existing systems. As its operation grows and becomes more complex, Xcargo and Supply Chain Suite (SCS) can be added to plan, optimize and manage all aspects of the supply chain, ensuring an efficient, sustainable and economical operation. SDL is modular and adapts perfectly as its industry grows.

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