Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics vs. SAP Extended Warehouse Management

The size and scope of the operation is the main question. In a smaller environment, or one that does not require a complex Warehouse Management Solution (WMS), RedPrairie may not be a good fit.

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Well suited - Managing the inventory and tracking of stocks is robust scenarios where it is less appropriate - Flexibility in RF screen must be improved and to fix the issues in queues when it is stuck

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• Cycle counting--great feature for inventory accuracy.
• System directed put-away--system directs driver where to store and put materials away, keeps a warehouse in tip-top shape.
• CNZ-Count near Zero, actually set at count at zero, when a bayrow emtys out, prompts fork driver to verify that the bayrow is actually empty by doing a cycle count....great for inventory accuracy!

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• The inventory management.
• In warding for materials.
• Store request.
• GR process.

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• Their implementation team was unable to provide examples where they successfully executed large scale multi site global deployments. May require strong client team or 3rd party implementation firm to ensure successful deployment and results.
• As of 3 years ago, their parcel shipping module was very new and unproven in marketplace.
• As of 3 years ago, Red Prairie had limited offering in modules that complement the WMS such as trading partner management and distributed order management. If you truly just need warehouse management capabilities this might not matter. For us, this meant we would need to involve more solution providers or internal development to address supply chain initiatives.

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• I think the integration with s4 surroundings is very poor. checks in eg. accounting is not performed in SAP Extended Warehouse Management and accumulate in the inbox for s4

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Again, the product was good. Customer service was OK at best. For any new installations or upgrades, I would seek a third party servicer/installer who would be more flexible in contract negotiations and provide service guarantees beyond what could expected with RedPrairie itself. If you choose to deal with RedPrairie directly, prepare for a lengthy negotiation process.

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I found RedPraire to be the best system I have used of the years.

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I think its best tool that you can use for this particular job. I know there are others but as long as you use SAP for some functionalities in your business you should consider using it.

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We are using Max attention, which is a perfect (but costly) extension for prod support.

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RedPrarie seems to have been better than Aloha. I will say that I used Aloha a very long time ago and it is probably light years ahead now. Aloha seemed to be a little more flexible in what you could do. The major downfall was you had a system that needed to be connected to the POS network directly on site that would be used only for reporting. This would require you to have another PC for computing needs. Like I said before, this is probably something that has changed in the newer world of Aloha.

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We were using non-sap product for managing the SAP Extended Warehouse Management which was not that great and flexible. In S4H 2023 version, SAP Extended Warehouse Management comes up with the features which was suitable for our business hence we implemented SAP Extended Warehouse Management. This was seamless integration has is embedded in HANA, we dont have to setup another instance and use the features of SAP Extended Warehouse Management

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• Warehousing errors were reduced by almost 12% with Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics.
• Order processing was done at more than 7% of the average TAT with the use of this service.
• End-user & ops team had higher productivity by almost 15% after integrating the service in day-to-day activities.

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• We just started to use it so the benefits are not yet clearly visible
• In the future I see that we can save work hours when we get all the functionalities working as we want

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