The SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite: Core Accelerator of Digital Transformation for Logistics Companies

Automating the integration of customers and suppliers with standardized logistics processes can optimize your supply chain

In production and trade supply chain management, different industries use differing standards for data exchange, which can differ not only internally to specific countries, but also across borders as well. In addition, differing standard processes are implemented for Value-Added Services and Contracts, Transport and Shipping Logistics, to name just a few.

Businesses such as logistics firms that operate with partners in multiple industries, sectors and regions can easily become daunted by the sheer variety and complexity of processes and formats. This is why SEEBURGER has centrally evaluated, structured and standardized all of these variants, and bundled them in packaged solutions to make it much easier to implement new requirements as they become critical to these organizations.

Integrating storage, shipping, planning & scheduling and transport systems to cloud applications

Designing a logistics network means integrating existing individual systems of differing generations and performance capabilities – such as storage systems, planning & scheduling systems, track & trace and commercial administration systems and, increasingly, digital marketplace and cloud-based solutions. With a broad range of different API/EAI technologies and preconfigured building blocks, the SEEBURGER Logistics Solution supports logistics companies with the implementation of diverse integration scenarios – including real-time integration with appropriate load, safety and security requirements, even for conventional in-house systems. The solution provides a catalog of pre-configured system functions for use by other applications, enabling interconnection and interaction between any kind of system, application, device or app.

• Provision of real-time information of any kind for specific departments and external partners
• Improved supply chain event management
• More efficient planning and scheduling of orders, services and transport operations

Compliant, auditable modeling of any type of data transfer in accordance with the strictest security requirements

There's growing demand among lawmakers, customers and partners for verifiable compliance with increasingly stringent guidelines like GDPR – including IT security audits. Such efforts focus on management and control of the exchange of company-critical data. The SEEBURGER MFT solution assures secure and traceable data exchange with end-to-end transaction monitoring and comprehensive control of all data - from confidential business and contract data to oversize files - beyond: Everything within an organization or in exchange with external partners, whether between multiple systems, systems and people, or – even on an ad-hoc basis – between people.

The benefits:

• Secure Transmission of sensitive data between systems and/or people
• Transfer of data quantities of any size
• Protected data spaces for cooperative project work

Intelligently linking logistics applications of today with IoT devices of tomorrow

SEEBURGER's BIS IoT solution is the answer to the integration tasks posed by projects associated with Industry/Logistics 4.0. The BIS IoT Gateway and BIS IoT Management unite the business level with the mechanics of products, means of transport, transport containers, and storage. Proprietary interfaces are thereby converted into standard formats such as OPC-UA in order to create a solid base for a wide range of integration projects.

The SEEBURGER BIS IoT Gateway collects and stores data from IoT devices, device management or control systems, makes them available to applications at the planning and administration levels and offers functions for analysis and process control.

SEEBURGER BIS IoT Management bundles a number of web-based applications for the management of APIs and services of the IoT devices in production or in the field. It offers tailored role-based features for asset and process data management, configuration, monitoring and analysis.

The benefits:

• Feedback of enriched, context-specific data on the condition and use of goods, containers and means of transport
• Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for complete transparency of transported and stored goods in real time
• Provision and integration of data lakes for big data analyses aimed at optimizing service activities

Global Support for B2G Requirements for Electronic Invoicing

Throughout the world today, electronic invoices bearing qualified electronic signatures are just as valid as their paper counterparts, so more and more companies in worldwide have adopted e-Invoicing.
You, too, can benefit from the advantages of digital invoicing: The electronic processing and automation of accounting processes can save between 60% and 80% of the costs of paper-based processing. In addition, e-invoicing ensures faster, media-disruption-free processes, reduces error rate and allows greater transparency and traceability.

E-Invoicing can be implemented on-premise or in the Cloud with our SaaS solution. 

Benefits of SEEBURGER E-Invoicing:

• Processing of all electronic invoicing formats, both inbound and outbound
• Automated recording of invoices in PDF file format and paper hardcopy format to support extended archiving requirements
• Approval-for-release workflows and legally compliant review procedures

Flexible Operating Models Can Move You Through Digital Transformation Faster

While tasks such as networking internal systems to create an agile, centrally controlled logistics network are unique and hardly conducive to standardization, there are critical and time-intensive subject areas in our daily business routines which, from an economical standpoint, lend themselves favorably to outsourcing.

This affects the entire Community Management functionality, as well as the onboarding and operation of changing B2B/EDI partner networks – from customers and subcontractors to customs clearance procedures. It also affects legally compliant invoicing management, including archiving, which in turn can impact certain API architectures for real-time communication, with requirements such as loading and security requirements.

Lower your investment and operating costs by moving your digital transformation project in part or in total to the SEEBURGER Cloud – in distributed and certified data centers in Germany and the US that comply with German and European data privacy laws.

The benefits:

• Flexible use of SEEBURGER integration services
• Value-added services for departments available on an ad-hoc basis
• Allows you to fully concentrate on your core business and not on integration