SAP Extended Warehouse Management

 

Use of SAP EWM to Map Warehouse Processes Efficient, Flexible and Future-Prooved

Your Requirements

  • Sustainable, modern warehouse solution
  • Seamless integratoin in SAP ERP-Processes
  • Integrated material-flow-control
  • Transparency in the storage
  • Flexible process configuration
  • Support of modern services in the storage

SAP EWM Provides:

  • Multiclient-Capability
  • Flexible modelling of warehouse and processes
  • Inventory- and Process-transparency
  • Optimization in warehouse planning and process realization
  • Kitting, Cross-Docking, Yard Management
  • Seamless integration of technology (Automation, RF, RFID…)

We Support You With:

  • Consulting
  • Requirement analysis
  • Concept & planning
  • Blueprint creation
  • Projec planning
  • Implementation
  • Customizing & optimization

SAP EWM- The Modern Warehouse-Solution

With SAP EWM, the warehouse processes can be controlled with an IT-solution in the standard. As a modern warehouse-management-system to control the Supply Chain, SAP EWM is a part of the SAP Supply Chain Execution Suite (SAP SCM). In contrast to SAP LES, in SAP EWM many functions are already complete integrated and offers a deep integration with SAP TM and SAP EM, the other components of the SCE Suite.

Optionally, SAP EWM can be licensed independent of SAP SCM and integrated as an Add-On in SAP ERP.

Companies use the functions of SAP EWM to optimize planning, control, execution and monitoring of the material flow. Beside the support of RF-devices, the solution makes the direct connection of automated storages, without an extra storage control, possible.

SAP EWM – Coverage of Market Requirements

  • Supply chain networking & intralogistic processes
  • Efficient use of storage space & central monitoring
  • Flexible process modelling
  • Inventory transparency
  • Optimization of ressources
  • Improvement of employee planning
  • Support of logistics service providers in the warehouse
  • Scaleability, suitable for all warehouse types
  • Multi-customer warehousing
  • Direct control of the automated conveyer systems

 

Basic Functions SAP EWM

SAP EWM is, as the Extended Warehouse Management, the SAP-Solution for all processes and functions in the warehouse administration and warehouse control. Through the generic systems approach, SAP EWM makes the high-flexible Design of many warehouse processes in the SAP Standard possible.

The Warehouse management solution SAP EWM supports the transaction of all goods movements, the administration of the inventories and the planned and efficient operation of all logistic processes in the warehouse- and all of that flexible and automated.

Mapping of the Whole Warehouse-Facilities and Structures

  • Setup of different warehouse facilities (automated storage, high-rack storage, block storage, fixed-place storage, etc.)
  • Different warehouse types
  • Definition of the storage bins according to the own requirements

  • Tracking of warehouse movements in the system: overview of the total amount and the location of a product
  • Automated storage-bin-decision to size and access frequency of the products
  • Completely integrated stock management: inventory procedures, registration of inventory differences

  • Increased planning of working hours and ressources in the storage
  • Measure, planning, simulation and visualization of storage activities
  • Analysis functions

Incoming and Outgoing Goods

  • Incoming functions: unload, counting, deconsolidate, final store
  • Outgoing functions: establishing the storage bin for outsorcing, packaging, load
  • Consideration of bearing arrangement and process-oriented rules/operations
  • Storage and outsourcing strategies

  • Activities for incoming and outgoing goods
  • Transfers and internal redistribution
  • Functions: status administration, quantity calculation, text administration, field control, validation, change documents, archiving

  • Loading and unloading
  • Yard- and transport-management
  • Route determination

  • Creation and picking of batches
  • System includes the countries of origin at the storage-order-creation
  • Batch-status-management at the process with outgoing goods
  • Administrate documentations-batches
  • Implement batch-valuations

  • Transport-cross-docking (TCD)
  • Planed cross-docking: operation of the cross-docking-processes in customizing
  • Opportunistically cross-docking: cross-docking-relevance will be identified after the good has been arrived in the storage or leaves the storage

Editing of all Goods Movements in the Warehouse

  • Relocations, automated replenishments, administration of dangerous goods
  • Layout- and process-oriented warehouse control
  • Effective work preparation over automated picking wave creation
  • Ressourcenoptimization over rule-directed bundling of warehouse tasks
  • Editing of inventory-differences

  • Application-link-enabling-interface (ALE-interface)
  • Integration of automated storage- and retrieval-systems or fork-lift control systems

  • Connect automated storages
  • No additional material flow calculator is necessary

RF-Framework

  • Support of GUI-, character- and browser-based devices
  • Supports the usage of barcodes for identification and verification purposes
  • Personalisation of image buildup and menue

RFID

  • Contactless identification, control and tracking of packed products and handling units
  • RFID-label with integrated RFID-transponder (RFID-tags)

  • Controlled distribution of work with queues
  • Storage order execution in environments with and without radio-frequency (RF)
  • Manual and automated mapping of storage orders to ressources
  • Optimized storage order selection
  • Control and monitoring of ressources

Mapping of Physical Units in the Warehouse

  • Packaging
  • Deconsolidation
  • Weighing
  • Quality Control
  • Counting

  • Personalized display for every user
  • Restrict the display to required fields ,data and register cards

Monitoring

  • Warehouse management monitor: information about actual situations in the storage with functions for alert monitoring
  • Easy graphics framework: configured cockpits for graphical illustration of dates as a supplement to text-based monitors
  • Graphical warehouse layout: illustration of inner and outer warehouse as a two-dimensional graphic

  • Additional character string to product number
  • Individual distinction of unique pieces and all other pieces
  • Explicit combination of product- and serial number

  • Indicator functions
  • Functions for graphical analysis and monitoring or control
  • Analysis of ist- and plan-dates
  • Strategies for increased efficiency of the warehouse
  • Control of impacts for different sceneries and planning goals

Inventory at Warehouse Management Level

  • Storage bin based inventory
  • Pruduct based inventory

  • Deadline inventory procedures
  • Permanent inventory procedures
  • Cycle counting

  • Differential monitor with configurable tolerance groups
  • Automatical abandon according to time limits
  • Zero check and control of low inventories
  • RF- functionality and HU´s are integrated in the inventory

At a glance

SAP EWM is worldwide one of the high-performance standard software systems for warehouse management and control. SAP EWM is particularly suited to the integration of service provider and complex internal storage processes through the high process orientation. So, complex supply chain networks can be realized and mapped.

The Most Important Advantages of SAP EWM

  • Planning, control and execution of the material flow within the storages in EWM
  • Direct implementation of automated storages without an extra storage control (control over material flow calculator)
  • Support of mobile technologies, e.g. RF, Pick-by-Voice, RFID
  • Decision support with preconfigured analysis and monitoring of storage indicators
  • Monitoring and optimization of incoming- and outgoing goods, inventory and supply processes
  • Optimized processes in work management, storage disposition and packaging planning

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) is part of the SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) Suite and is implemented as a decentralised warehouse management system to a central ERP-system.

SAP EWM is applicable universal and more flexible as the previous products.

Some Highlights of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM):

  • Direct control and connection of automated storage-/conveyor-systems with integrated SAP Material Flow System (SAP MFS)
  • New transport control: layout- or process-dependent multi-step-transports are possible, thereby the single-steps can be executed by different service providers
  • Flexible administration of monetary and physical ownership of the inventories
  • Workplaces are fully integrated in the new transport control for tasks like packaging, additional logistic services or kitting
  • RF-frameworks make the individual design of processes for mobile data collection possible
  • Coverage of the entire operational logistic

As Extended Warehouse Management, SAP EWM is based on the functions of the WM-module in SAP ERP and offers a number of new and extended functions.

There are functional differences between SAP WM and SAP EWM in the following areas:

  • Incoming Goods:
    Dispatch notification-processing, registration of incoming goods, deconsolidation, quality management, inventory management, warehouse organization, returns handling, stock order registration, storage control, additional logistic services, yard management, cross-docking, integrated customs processing
  • Internal Storage Functions:
    Wave formation, supplies, inventory, scrapping, quality management, kit-to-stock, warehouse reorganisation, stock order registration, storage control
  • Outgoing Goods:
    Wave formation, consolidation, kit-to-order, packaging planning, stock order registration. Storage control, additional logistic services, yard management, cross-docking, integrated customs processing
  • Process Supporting Functions
    Work management, radio frequency (RF), monitoring/reporting, graphical storage layout, exceptional cases, serial numbers, inventory management, RFID at incoming and outgoing goods, material flow control, SAP transportation management

Result:

The full integration of SAP WM in SAP ERP is the greatest advantage towards SAP EWM. Business bookings in ERP can directly initiate the follow-up processes in the storage management.

Previously, a decentralized WM for performance-intensive storage management processes was recommended but the ERP-systems are meanwhile performant enough for the central SAP WM implementation. However, if a decentralized solution is required for certain reasons, SAP EWM is in most cases the better decision.

 

Extract from our References

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  • Turnover: 2,7 Mrd. € (2015/16)
  • Employees: 16000 worldwide (2016)

Success Story SEW-EURODRIVE

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AlzChem AG

  • Chemicals
  • Turnover: 295 Mio. €
  • Employees: 1.400

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AGCO

  • Agricultural Machinery
  • Turnover: 9,96 Mrd. $ (2012)
  • Employees: 20.320 (2012)