SAP AFS and

Warehouse Management Equipment at

Samsonite

Wim Willems – M.I.S. Project

Your logo Coordinator

Kris Rooms – Manager Innovation

Agenda Agenda Your logo

1. Introduction
2. Samsonite Europe : Logistics
3. WM Interfaces
4. Conclusions
5. Q&A

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Agenda Samsonite Your logo

THE LEADERS IN LUGGAGE INNOVATION

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Agenda Samsonite runs SAP AFS Your logo

SAP AFS (Apparel and Footwear Solutions) 2005 - 2011

• One SAP instance for 3 regions
• Europe 11/2007 : XI 3.0
• SAP is hosted in UK
Europe : Second Wave
WM Spare Parts
WM Finished Goods
WM Raw Materials + PP
• Data centre in Zaventem
• EDC in Oudenaarde for
Europe to South-Africa

600 km distance or
7 hrs by car

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EDC Oudenaarde

We have a unique logistic centre : Oudenaarde

• In total 3000 different product and colors for different brands
( Samsonite, American tourister, ...)
• Different packages : Single or group packed
• About 10.000 orders per day from all European contries centralized
in Oudenaarde.
• Maximum we have 39 outgoing trucks per day or about 2300 m3 or
25.800 boxes or 55.000 pieces
• Daily delivery to about 10.000 shops
• Personalized deliveries are possible ( anti-theft, labels, ...)

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Logistics Outbound Flow

Sales Orders

Outbound Deliveries

Picking Waves

Pick and Pack Sorter

Loading via Gate Sorter

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Logistics Outbound Flow

Sales Orders

Outbound Deliveries

Picking Waves

Pick and Pack Sorter

Loading via Gate Sorter

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Warehouses

Receving LSC

Baskets N
Baseliek Shippi Dom
Kathe FGWH B ng Pallets
Shipping B
Draal 28m x 155m
LSC LSC
Baseli 13m high
LSC
(stock
FGWH C
LSC Carton racks
ek

Regrinder
Denesting LSC : 27.796 m²
Abdij) LSC LSC Waste
Corner Assy & prep. : 7.919 m²
Inj. molding 8 LSC
Bakets : 3.690 m²
62m x
In total 2.000.000 pieces of luggage Productie
Inj. molding 7 Inj. molding : 3.653 m²

polyprop
Preparation

Batteries

101m Inj. molding 6

Inj. or
Central
Extr. & Vacuumforming : 1.263 m²

30.000 pallets
Powdercoating
Maintenance Frames & powderc. : 1.304 m²
molding 5
Assembly

Preparation RMWH & income : 6.574 m²

Abdij
Water
Purification
Maintenance & tooling : 3.242 m²
Attache
PP-silos Offices : 2.192 m²
(picking) • Highly automated warehouse
Inj. molding 4
Extruder & Vacuumforming

Preparation
Inj. molding 3 Shipping
TOTAL : 57.633 m²
62m
Shipping Ax • RF scanners
Income
ABS Frames
Pallets

Inj. molding 2
LSC Inj. molding 1
Productie
155m • Barcoding
ABS polyprop RMWH
LSC Maintenance
Xylem Presti ge
Central W hr
Inj. molding
Small

Tooling
Tooling
SAMSONITE
Shipping Abdij Oudenaarde

Layout 2004
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SAP WM Implementation

Receving LSC

Baskets N
Baseliek Shippi Dom
Kathe FGWH B ng Pallets
Shipping B
Draal 28m x 155m LSC LSC
Baseli 13m high
Dambach fixed cranes LSC
(stock
FGWH C ek E&K moving
LSC
(Egemin soft) Carton racks

Regrinder
Denesting LSC : 27.796 m²
ManualAbdij) LSC LSC Waste
Corner automated
Assy & prep. : 7.919 m²

Cranes 62m x Gate

Inj. molding 8 Sorter LSC
Bakets : 3.690 m²
Inj.cranes
Productie
Inj. molding 7 molding : 3.653 m²

polyprop
Preparation

Batteries

101m Inj. molding 6 Central

Extr. & Vacuumforming : 1.263 m²
Gate Sorter
Powdercoating
Maintenance Frames & powderc. : 1.304 m²
Inj. molding 5
Assembly

Preparation RMWH & income : 6.574 m²

Abdij
Water
Purification
Maintenance & tooling : 3.242 m²
Attache
PP-silos Offices : 2.192 m²
(picking)
VANAS
Inj. molding 4
Extruder & Vacuumforming

Preparation
Inj. molding 3 Shipping
TOTAL : 57.633 m²
62m
Shipping Ax
Income
ABS Frames
Pallets

Towers
LSC
Inj. molding 2
Inj. molding 1
Productie
155m ABS
LSC
polyprop RMWH
Maintenance
Xylem Presti ge
Central W hr

Pick & Pack

Inj. molding
Small

Tooling

Sorter Tooling
Gate Sorter SAMSONITE
Shipping Abdij Oudenaarde

Layout 2004
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Agenda Intensum Your logo

FOUNDED MID-2005
– LEGAL ENTITIES : GD-LUXEMBURG & BELGIUM
– ACTIVITIES IN LUXEMBURG, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND & FRANCE

EDI / ALE
B2B / B2C
SWIFT

FX Dealing Platform
Document Tracking
Tool

SAP SERVICE PARTNER since 2006

Member of FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE VALUE CIRCLE 2011
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Requirements

XI
– Existing interfaces should not slow down WMS-INTERFACES
– JDBC- and FILE Adapter QUEUES should not block WMS-
INTERFACES
SAP AFS
– Large amount of Idocs should be processed in a very short
period
– EGEMIN INTERFACE needs to be finished E2E < 20 seconds
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Implementation

Receving LSC

Baskets N
Baseliek Shippi Dom
Kathe FGWH B ng Pallets
Shipping B
Draal 28m
LSC x 155m LSC 13m high
Dambach Cranes (Egemin soft)Baseli LSC
(stock
FGWH C
LSC
ek
Carton racks
E&K cranes

Regrinder
Denesting LSC : 27.796 m²
Scanning
Abdij) LSC LSC Waste
Corner Assy & prep. : 7.919 m²
XML files
Inj. molding 8 LSC
Bakets : 3.690 m²
62m x HTTP
Productie
Inj. molding 7 Inj. molding : 3.653 m²

polyprop
Preparation

Batteries

101m Inj. molding 6 Central

Extr. & Vacuumforming : 1.263 m²

Powdercoating
Maintenance Frames & powderc. : 1.304 m²
Inj. molding 5
Assembly

Preparation RMWH & income : 6.574 m²

Abdij Attache
SAP AFS WMTORD Water
Purification
Maintenance & tooling : 3.242 m²
PP-silos Offices : 2.192 m²
(picking) Inj. molding 4
Create TO
Extruder & Vacuumforming

Preparation
Inj. molding 3
VANAS
62m
Shipping Ax
Shipping
Income TOTAL : 57.633 m²
ABS Frames
Pallets

Inj. molding 2
LSC Productie XI
Towers
155m
Inj. molding 1
ABS polyprop RMWH
LSC Maintenance
Xylem Presti ge
Central W hr

Confirm TO
Inj. molding
Small

Tooling
Tooling
WMTOCO
JDBC : Oracle SAMSONITE
Shipping Abdij Oudenaarde

Layout 2004
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Pick & Pack Sorter

Outbound deliveries

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Gate Sorter

Outbound deliveries

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Dambach Cranes Egemin

Inbound deliveries
Movements in the Warehouse
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Optimizations (1)
XI connector
– DAMBACH CRANES
– EGEMIN SOFTWARE

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Optimizations (2)

Queue prioritization
– High Priority Queue (WMS)
– Normal Priority Queue (All Other flows)
– Low Priority Queue (Italian flows)
– Large Message Queue (Messages > 20Mb)

Pick and Pack Sorter

– SAP sents 1 IDoc per Picking Wave (multi-truck = multi-shipment)
– Pick & Pack Sorter sents1 message when everything is scanned for
this shipment  1 IDoc per scanned TO

Gate Sorter
– SAP sents 1 IDoc per loading zone (warehouse)
– Gate Sorter sents 1 message when everything is scanned in this
warehouse  1 IDoc per HU

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Monitoring

Monitoring by support team

Tracking by SAP Document nb
Easy and fast monitoring
On-line
End-to-End
Intensum Document Tracking Tool
Webdynpro JAVA

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Monitoring

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WM Average/d Peak/h
SAP OUT 1500
WMTORD 1400
WMCATO 10
ZWM_EU_GATESORTER 80
SAP IN 27000
WMTOCO 8000
WMCATO 10
ZWM_EU_GATESORTER 19000
PI 3000 - 3500

TOTAL Average/d Peak/h

SAP OUT 6000
IN 28000
PI 6500 - 7000

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Dambach / Egemin Software

 E2E time < 20 seconds : < 10 seconds
Gate Sorter
 Stress testing 17 min, after tuning SAP 3 min
 HU are set to ‘Loaded’ in update task
Pick and Pack Sorter

VANAS towers

E&K cranes


Processing Time
 PI ok
 SAP to be tuned

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Wim.Willems@samsonite-europe.com
Kris.Rooms@intensum.com

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Thank you!