Extended Warehouse Management with SAP® Supply Chain Management Improves Visibility, Maximizes Warehouse Efficiency and Empowers Your Workforce Companies are continually looking to increase speed and efficiency throughout their supply chains, while balancing efficiency and responsiveness to compete in today’s global economy. They are looking to increase competitiveness by improving their capability to plan and execute efficiently, as well as monitoring and responding to real-time business indicators. The release of SAP® Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), within the SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) application, offers flexible, automated support for processing goods movements and managing stock to optimize overall warehouse control and efficiency by streamlining the inventory, warehouse and delivery processes. SAP SCM EWM Capabilities SCM EWM offers functionality including support for inbound and outbound processing, facility/bin management and storage, internal warehouse control (i.e. stock status changes), physical inventory and cycle counting, yard management, cross docking and labor management. It has been designed to work in high volume, complex warehouses that require support for complex, multi-step processes. This new warehouse management system ensures SAP customers have one of the industry’s most powerful and advanced warehouse management systems, fully integrated with the core SAP SCM suite. And unlike other best-of-breed systems, it is not subject to any of the separate integration, interface, upgrade and support issues required. SAP SCM EWM delivers higher levels of functionality, power and technological capabilities. When correctly implemented, the SAP EWM brings planning and execution functions closer together. It also allows customers the ability to map all warehouse facilities, including yards, in detail, down to storage-bin level. Not only do you gain an overview of the quantity of material in the warehouse, but you can also determine exactly which bin a certain material is currently located in your warehouse complex. You can optimize the use of various storage bins and stock movements and you can store stock from several plants in random storage areas in the same warehouse complex. SAP WM EVOLUTION SCM SAP TRM SAP SCM EWM Functionality Overview Yard Management – Manage trucks in your yard and their movement based on warehouse tasks ó Cross Docking – Reduce warehouse costs by minimizing product handling ó Pick from Goods Receipt and Push Deployment – Monitor opportunistic or unplanned cross docking activities ó Transportation Cross Docking – Optimize transportation planning available through cross docking ó Quality Management – Ensure delivered products satisfy quality criteria ó Value-Added Services – Includes assembling products, labelling, picking or kitting WMS & RF SAP Console WMS R/3 Putaway and Stock Removal Strategies – Assign appropriate bins for placement and picking ó Task Mgmt SAP WM/EWM Inbound Processes ó LMS SAP EWM Benefits With SAP EWM you can control and optimize various processes in the warehouse based on your current and future business processes or physical layout. SCM EWM is completely integrated into SAP’s inventory management and delivery processing functions, enabling control and optimization of processes down to the warehouse level. Business processes and transactions triggered in other SAP components/modules trigger movements in the warehouse allowing the user to organize, control and monitor these movements in SAP SCM EWM. Locator Manual Complexity Outbound Processes ó Wave Processing – Automatically combine picking requests to optimize stock removal within the warehouse and improved delivery times to customers ó Replenishment – Triggered either automatically, through a background job or via an exception code; guarantees that forward pick areas are stocked with appropriate quantities to support picking requirements Storage Bin Management and Optimization ó Managing Handling Units – Used to uniquely identify inventory; flexible enough to be configured as required, not required or optional at the storage type level ó Slotting – Determines the product master data that directs putaway and removal strategies. Slotting information can be based on forecasted or historical data. Distribution Center Processes ó Planning and Monitoring – Provides up to date visibility of all the warehouse activities ó Radio Frequency Support – Enables faster and more accurate data entry ó Resource Management – Maximizes the efficiency of warehouse personnel by facilitating the management and distribution of work via queues ó Labor Management – Allows users to track employee performance against engineered labor standards or other performance metrics SAP SCM EWM Benefits Overview ó Enables dynamic movement of goods and value added services ó Flexible enough for any size warehouse operating in any industry ó Can manage a simplistic operation to a highly complex operation ó Has flexible deployment options, including centralized and decentralized landscapes ó Offers more advanced functionality and more configuration options, allowing InfoLogix to deliver a system that is truly designed to meet your specific business needs ó Full control over warehouse processes, visibility and movement management within the warehouse, from the point of goods receipt, to goods issue and extending to the yard from the time a trailer checks in, to when the trailer checks out ó Advanced functionality for slotting and rearrangement keeps products stored in optimum locations. The labor and resource management functionality helps manage warehouse personnel and measure their effectiveness and performance ó Extends real-time visibility and control of warehouse operations through standard RF data collection via SAP Console and ITSMobile ó Allows integration to automation equipment such as storage and retrieval systems and conveyors without middleware and PLCs via Material Flow Systems module Our SAP Knowledge, Experience and Expertise InfoLogix is an SAP partner focusing on Logistics Execution Systems (LES) and Supply Chain Execution components of the SAP Application Suite. InfoLogix’s SAP consultants share a wealth of experience and knowledge when it come to designing and implementing world class SAP LES solutions to enable organizations to gain operational efficiencies and reduce and manage the costs related to supply chain operations. InfoLogix is fast becoming a thought leader in the SAP LES arena and is ideally suited to help SAP customers with their SAP solution design and implementation. SAP EWM can deliver significant benefits for many companies, as long as it is designed and implemented to take full advantage of the system’s capabilities. InfoLogix has the skills, experience and a deeper understanding of SAP EWM to deliver these capabilities to ensure that customers gain maximum return on their investment. Customers running on SAP platforms will benefit from enhanced product functionality, performance and full SAP LES implementation and support services delivered by InfoLogix’s world class experienced and expert consultants to ensure consistent, comprehensive and reliable service for all its customers. Contact Us Today InfoLogix is one of the leading enterprise mobility solution providers for SAP applications and can provide full support to help you implement and expand mobile data collection capabilities beyond the four walls of the warehouse. We help you implement the basic product and extend its functionality with our extensive library of transactions and templates, significantly reducing your costs and accelerating your ROI. InfoLogix’s knowledge, experience and expertise empowers you to maximize the value of your supply chain throughout your entire SAP ecosystem. About InfoLogix Imagine having the information from your back-end systems, instantly available at the precise location where it has maximum impact on your business. InfoLogix helps break your most difficult productivity barriers, by working with you to mobilize your business. We provide the industry expertise, process knowledge and mobile infrastructure services to help you achieve new levels of customer care, productivity and profitability. Learn More: 101 E. County Line Road Hatboro, PA 19040 www.infologix.com info@infologix.com | 215.604.0691 SS-EMS-015-04/10 © 2010 InfoLogix, Inc. All rights reserved.
