Case Study: SICK achieves real-time logistics transparency and cost savings with SAP Services and Support

SICK Tapping Expert Services and Collaboration to Co-Innovate a Real-Time Tracking Solution

SICK, a leading industrial sensor company, needed better visibility into its tightly orchestrated production and logistics processes, where missing materials could quickly stop production. The company was relying on manual checks to track delivery status, creating inefficiencies, higher costs, and a lack of transparency in supply processes, and turned to SAP Services and Support with SAP Business Network for Logistics.

SAP helped SICK co-create and roll out a real-time tracking solution that connected SICK’s Tag-LOC indoor tracking system with SAP software on SAP Business Technology Platform. The result was real-time transparency across logistics and production, simplified processes, and stronger automation, delivering a 20% reduction in overall lead time, a 66% drop in average search time for missing materials, and annual savings of €215,000.

SICK

Volker Weisenhorn

Head of Operations Logistics