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SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Score8.6 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Extended Warehouse Management?

A warehouse management system (WMS) that enables users to manage a high volume of goods and run sustainable, risk-resilient operations with digitalized warehouse processes in the cloud. Presented as a comprehensive warehouse solution with fully integrated quality, production, and track-and-trace processes, offering direct control of warehouse automation equipment and intelligent slotting rules to optimize space utilization.

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Who Buys & Uses SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Pros

  • Robust inventory management with real-time tracking and issue resolution
  • Streamlined outbound processing, including kitting and packing
  • Improved picking accuracy and efficiency through RF-based verification

Cons

  • Integration challenges, especially with S/4 inbound delivery processing
  • Complexity of configuration, such as MFS setup
  • Issues with error handling and clarity of error messages (e.g., stuck queues)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Extended Warehouse Management in Distribution centers to full fill our customer demands. inventory management and order fulfillment. scope is to track the inventory in the DC . vendor manage inventory. Along with SAP Extended Warehouse Management we are also implementing the labor management to track the partner's performance. This tool will help business to measure the performance.

Pros

  • Picking
  • Packing
  • Putaway
  • Shipping

Cons

  • Picking
  • Physical Inventory

Return on Investment

  • track labor performance

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Enterprise Portal

SAP Extended Warehouse Management Consultant.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage the warehouse and all the movements and storage within it. It helps us organize the warehouse.

Pros

  • High flexibility for personalization.
  • Gives a clear overview of what needs to be done.

Cons

  • It can be difficult to customize to your needs.
  • Optimizing processes can be difficult.
  • Many things are old and outdated.

Return on Investment

  • Stock overview is good.
  • Monitor helps us not miss any deliveries.
  • Devices are hard to learn for veteran warehouse workers.

Usability

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira

SAP Extended Warehouse Management all the way

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, the SAP Extended Warehouse Management Crossdocking process was implemented. We also were able to track people with labor management with SAP Extended Warehouse Management.

Pros

  • Crossdocking
  • Slotting
  • Labor management
  • Yard management

Cons

  • DAS needs to be able to sent info to suppliers in different ways
  • We need a warehouse designer and builder, focused on other warehouse movements

Return on Investment

  • Better use of spaces in yard
  • Better use of people times

Usability

Alternatives Considered

MRI ManhattanONE

Review for SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Extended Warehouse Management we use as decentralized SAP Extended Warehouse Management, after implementation of SAP S/4 Hana we are planning to use the embedded SAP Extended Warehouse Management in our company

Pros

  • Inbound Processing
  • Internal warehouse processing
  • Quality Management
  • Handling Unit Management
  • Outbound Process
  • Value Added Services
  • Cross Docking

Cons

  • Warehouse monitor reports can be much user friendly
  • Error handling through inbound and outbound queues
  • Integration with S4 for the inbound deliveries and reversal
  • MFS setup is complex

Return on Investment

  • Handling big Warehouse through EWM is good
  • Integration with other functionalities is good
  • It can be more user friendly and very complex to do development
  • Warehouse automation can be much better

Usability

SAP EWM for all warehouse needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our landscape, while we were fully relying on SAP FMS, which lacked quite a lot of warehouse management functionality, we decided to implement the EWM solution fully integrated in our landscape with integration using SAP PI/PO to FMS, meeting our business expectations and regulatory requirements towards government data submission, compliance requirements, and making it a strong End-to-End business process.

Pros

  • End to end order processing.
  • Inventory management.
  • Shipping processes.
  • Regulatory processes.

Cons

  • Out of the box integration capabilities.
  • Ease of implementation.
  • Fit to standard approach.

Return on Investment

  • Efficient end to end business process by more than 30%.
  • Increased maintenance cost slightly.
  • Improved customer satisfaction by 20%.
  • Increased order volume processing by 15%.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud, Manhattan Active® Transportation Management and Stream Transport Management System

Other Software Used

SAP Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA for product compliance, SAP Business Data Cloud