Business Layer of CKN Framework

CKN Solutions
Ready-made Business Building Blocks

CKN Solutions is a catalog of pre-designed business modules – Financial, Inventory, Asset, Partner, Transport, Warehouse and more – built on CKN Framework to accelerate digital transformation across your value chain.

What is CKN Solutions?

CKN Solutions is the business layer of the CKN Framework – a set of modular, reusable solutions that cover common enterprise processes such as finance, supply chain, logistics, asset management, and partner collaboration.

Instead of building every application from scratch, organizations can start from field-tested solution templates and adapt them to local processes, plants, and countries. Each module is designed to integrate easily with existing ERPs and operations, while still sharing the same technology foundation.

This approach turns digital transformation from a series of isolated projects into a coherent, evolving solution portfolio that grows on a common platform.

In business language

  • Ready-made modules for key business domains – adaptable to your rules and policies.
  • End-to-end coverage across order, production, warehouse, transport, finance, and partners.
  • Platform thinking – each new module strengthens the overall ecosystem, not just one department.

Business Benefits of CKN Solutions

CKN Solutions focuses on delivering tangible business outcomes – faster rollouts, standardized operations, and better visibility across the organization.

1. Rapid Implementation

Start from a pre-built foundation for functions like TMS, WMS, Inventory or Financial integration instead of designing everything from zero.

Impact: shorter project timelines, faster time-to-value for each initiative.

2. Standardized Processes

Use common process blueprints across plants, warehouses and business units, while still allowing local variations where needed.

Impact: easier training, smoother cross-site collaboration, and clearer KPIs.

3. Lower Total Cost

When multiple projects share the same solution modules, enhancements and fixes benefit everyone, not just one implementation.

Impact: reduced duplication of effort and better ROI on each enhancement cycle.

4. End-to-End Visibility

Because modules share a common data model, it is easier to connect information from orders, stock, transport, finance, and partners into one view.

Impact: better decision-making and more reliable performance measurement.

5. Scalable Expansion

Add new plants, channels, or countries by reusing existing modules and simply adapting configuration, master data, and local rules.

Impact: predictable, repeatable rollout pattern across regions.

6. Governance & Compliance

Central modules can embed required controls, approval flows, and audit trails once, then apply them consistently wherever that solution is used.

Impact: easier compliance management and stronger internal control environment.

Key CKN Solution Domains

CKN Solutions is organized as a set of domains that can be implemented individually or combined into a full end-to-end platform.

Supply Chain & Inventory

Stock visibility, material balances, replenishment logic, and integration with production and warehouse flows.

Transport & Distribution

Transport planning, carrier management, delivery execution, GPS tracking, and proof of delivery modules for road logistics.

Warehouse & Yard

Storage, picking, loading, slot booking, and yard operations that synchronize with transport and production needs.

Finance & Settlement

Billing logic, freight cost allocation, settlement with carriers and partners, and interfaces to ERP finance modules.

Production & Asset

Planning and monitoring of production orders, machines, vehicles, and handling units as shared assets across operations.

Partner & Customer

Unified structure for customers, suppliers, logistics partners, and service providers, enabling smoother collaboration and data sharing.

Who Benefits from CKN Solutions?

CKN Solutions is designed to bring value to all key stakeholders in a transformation program – not just IT.

Executives

C-Level & Strategy

Gain a scalable solution portfolio that can be rolled out across regions and business units with consistent governance and KPIs.

Operations

Supply Chain & Plant Leaders

Use modules that reflect real operations – dispatching, inventory, transport, yard – with best practices built-in but still adaptable.

IT & Digital

IT Managers & Architects

Govern multiple projects on a shared framework, with reusable modules, unified integration patterns, and reduced maintenance overhead.

Typical Deployment Scenarios

CKN Solutions can be adopted step-by-step or as a broader program, depending on where your organization is in its digital journey.

1. Start with one domain

Begin with a focused area – such as Transport Management or Slot Booking – and implement CKN Solutions only for that domain.

Later, gradually extend to Warehouse, Inventory, and Finance using the same platform.

2. Multi-plant rollout program

Define a standard solution template (e.g. dispatching + yard + PoD) and roll it out to plants and warehouses in waves.

Use shared CKN Solutions to keep core logic the same, while adjusting local configs.

3. New digital service platform

Build a new external-facing digital product for partners or customers based on existing CKN Solutions modules (orders, shipments, tracking, billing).

Faster go-to-market with less technical risk and a clear upgrade path.

Build Your Solution Portfolio on CKN Framework

With CKN Solutions, each project is more than a stand-alone system. It becomes part of a growing, shared platform that supports your long-term strategy across supply chain, finance, operations, and partner ecosystems.