Transportation and shipping are often a tightly integrated aspect of the complete end-to-end supply chain. Despite what many people think, they are not standalone functions. The options that have been available to companies for processing parcel shipping transactions from within the SAP® environments, whether it is standalone carrier-supplied software, a third-party application or a custom application developed internally, tend to have similar issues - they rely on middleware and aren't fully integrated into the SAP system.

The result of this gap in capability is increased shipping costs and more time required to ensure that the shipper is compliant with the ever-changing aspects of the various small parcel shippers - everything from rate changes to label format changes. This white paper will discuss a tool that is available to help bridge that gap. Catalyst XPS integrates information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Customers can save money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.