ORBIS Transport Control System

Our fully SAP-integrated solution allows you to map all the intralogistics transport processes and specifically expand the functions of your respective SAP solution as needed. To set the foundation, we jointly define your company’s specific requirements and – if it has not yet been implemented – we evaluate the right SAP solution for you.

ORBIS Transport Control System delivers far more functions than a conventional forklift control system. Our solution usefully expands the existing SAP functionality, e.g., via dynamic milk runs, optimized task assignment, or the option to manage warehouse processes based on layout. The full integration into the SAP system allows for optimization of internal transportation in your company, including the forklift fleet. By using automatic drive control, you improve your routes and reduce empty runs and travel distances, and the minimized susceptibility to error and malfunction increases the reliability of processes. Furthermore, the complete documentation allows for important analysis and evaluation options. Learn more about the comprehensive features and practical benefits of our Transport Control System.

You will benefit from the following properties when implementing the ORBIS Transport Control System:

• Integration in SAP
  The ORBIS Transport Control System Customizing and the mobile applications are 100-percent integrated into SAP ERP and/or SAP S/4HANA. SAP remains the main system.
   
• Full scalability
  The ORBIS Transport Control System tailors itself to your company’s individual size and warehouse capacity. Here is the exceptionally practical part: Even only individual areas can be added to an ongoing process.
   
• Customized flexibility
  The solution allows you to flexibly customize the basic parameters of “Distance”, “Time”, and “Process”.

Are you familiar with the following weak points?

Apart from a high number of empty runs and wasted time in searching for materials, there are often complications due to changing transport resources and a lack of coordination in logistics. Furthermore, multi-level process chains are, e.g., interrupted on the system end due to the transfer of transport-related documents. This results in lack of transparency and the inability to track internal transports. Even “cherry picking” is a known problem – employees do not execute transport processes according to business urgencies but rather at their own discretion.

How can the ORBIS Transport Control System help in this situation? The components and expanded functions of our solution have been specially developed to eliminate these weak points in intralogistical transport processes. Thanks to the ORBIS Transport Control System, you can eliminate search overheads and map multi-level process chains and collective trips. Not only do you obtain a consistently up-to-date view of the entire flow of materials in your system, but also the ability to manage your transport on the go and in “real time”.

Plan the routes of your entire fleet of forklifts and thereby control all the processes, zones, employees, resources, and travel paths. Take an important step towards a paperless factory!

• Transport Control System Customizing
  Transport Control System Customizing constitutes a key component of the solution. This is where all the data needed for processes, routes, workers, and resources are stored.
   
• Transport Control System Dialogs
  This component contains tried-and-tested mobile forklift dialogs for processing the daily load. For instance, you can manage transport jobs on the go and paper-free or immediately report transport resources directly to the system.
   
• Transport Control System Control Station
  As a third component, the Transport Control System Control Station enables external control and monitoring of the transport jobs.

• Trailer scheduling and management
  Manage the destination and condition (empty/full, unloading/loading) of your trailer with reliability. Use these functions to plan in-house traffic and assign special destinations to individual semitrailers. Thanks to the integrated trailer management, you have a comprehensive overview of the status and content of your trailer at all times.
   
• Transport orders
  Use transport orders to reserve resources for certain times and destinations for activities outside of processes, thereby making it easier for you to plan trips or the disposal of garbage or empties. Transport orders are also displayed in the order queue of the corresponding resources.
   
• Mapping milk runs/tugger trains
  Take advantage of the integrated tugger train control in the transport management system and organize pre-defined travel paths based on static or event-driven paths. You can also display and manage the current location of all your trailers and their respective load condition and contents.
   
• Alert function
  The practical alert feature allows you to notify your employees about critical functions and respond in a timely manner. As a result, you can easily prevent forgetting orders or having to change resources due to a change in the order situation.

ORBIS Transport Control system improves the internal transport activities of the entire forklift fleet by:

• automated travel control
• optimizing routes
• reducing unladen journeys
• reducing the travel distances
• optimized resource management
• resource utilization
• ensuring operational urgencies
• reducing bottlenecks
• minimizing errors
• increasing process reliability with continuous documentation
• increased transparency
• possibility of analysis and evaluation