webinar: transforming warehouse operations with sap ewm

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Webinar – Jan 18, 2018

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Established in 1997, Wise Men is an IT Solutions provider with offices in USA, India & UAE. We are a CMMI Level-3 Certified, Women and Minority owned company with employees and consultants deployed globally. Wise Men has helped provide skilled IT resources to our Clients and provide best in-class service to our customers. We serve several Global 1000 companies who enjoy our high-quality services at competitive prices.

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• SAP Solutions Design and Development Practice Team

• Experienced in Global Implementations, Rollouts, Upgrade and Support Engagements Across

o Multiple Versions of SAP ECC, S4 HANA and SAP EWM

• SAP EWM Implementations and Support for a Major Retail Vertical

• SAP – SCM / Logistics Practice Offerings

• Assessments

• Roadmap / Strategy Development

• Project Planning – Migrations and Greenfield Implementations

• Solution Design and Business Process Improvements

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Why SAP EWM ?

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Why was SAP EWM Developed?

Requirements for data volume, performance and process flexibility made a new

architecture necessary

Extends the basic concept of Transfer Orders to enable process flexibility – moves

away from just Managing Stocks to Controlling Processes

High risk to change existing architecture in a mature application (WM) with

thousands of live customers

Follows on from the Decentralized SAP warehouse concept


SAP EWM Brings Efficiencies to all Warehouse Processes


SAP EWM – Key Functionalities

Advanced Wave Management

Warehouse Order Creation Rules

Slotting

Cross-Docking

Value-Added Services and Kitting

Yard Management

Internal Routing

Rearrangement

Resource & Labor Management

Warehouse Monitoring

Analytics & Reporting

Import / Export, Dangerous Goods & Compliance

Native Technologies (RF, RFID, Voice, Material Flow

System)

TCI, TCO Reduction, HANA, Optimization Tools


SAP EWM - Core Processes and Supported Functions

Inbound Processing

• ASN data receiving, validation, correction • Transpiration unit mgmt. • Goods receipt • Putaway bin determination • Internal routing • Slotting • Deconsolidation • Putaway • Returns / reverse logistics • Goods receipt optimization • Advanced returns mgmt.

• Transportation cross docking • Pick from goods receipt/push

deployment • Yard management

• RF / RFID Enablement • Quality inspection • Import / export integration • EH&S integration • eSOA enablement

• Rearrangement • Inventory counts / record accuracy • Replenishment • Freight order management • Kit-to stock

• Labor management • Opportunistic cross docking • Merchandise distr. X-docking

• Packaging specification • Batch management • Serial numbers • Catch weight • Material Flow System • Warehouse cockpit

Outbound Processing

• Order deployment • Route determination • Wave management • Picking bin determination • Warehouse order creation • Work assignment • Picking & packing, staging • Loading & goods issue • Kit-to-order • Manual outbound deliveries • Production supply

• Task interleaving • Execution constraint mgmt. • Semi-system-guided work

• Graphical warehouse layout • Transp. Integration (LES) • ERP transportation integration • Multiple EAN • Cartonization • Rapid deployment package SU

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Built-in Optimization in SAP EWM

Automatic shipping-unit determination

Slotting Advanced storage concept; ABC goods classification

Cartonization

Wave management Optimized work orders; efficient pick path

Labor management Reduced labor costs; improved labor planning


Advanced Wave Management with SAP EWM

• Automatic, semi-automatic & manual wave planning & release • Template-driven wave creation (wave templates with predefined completion times) • Delivery item grouping/split (according to route, pick area, packing lanes, product) • Wave milestone status tracking and monitoring


Rearrangement with SAP EWM

• Dynamic and planned rearrangement based on slotting optimization results (i.e. based on product demand data - promotions, seasonal plans, etc.)

• Flexible rearrangement execution to fit capacity / workload plans

Optimal product location storage for better labor and picking efficiency


Internal Routing and VAS

• Complete process coverage - routing determination & step/process control

• Layout-oriented routing (for equipment resources incl. material flow system conveyor segments)

• Process-oriented routing (based on sales / purchasing order, product, customer & vendor data)

Efficient, automatic routing determination

• Seamless integration with internal routing • Value added service time & material reporting

Integration of VAS Services – INB and OUTB


Flow through Put Away

When goods received, it can be the case that you are unable to send the goods to a final ship-to party completely. This can affect products that are delivered in an unpacked state, or whole handling units. In this case, it can move the goods after goods receipt to a cross-docking storage type that are using as a repacking area.


Cross-Docking

Direct transfer from goods receipt to goods issue for reduced handling & storage costs

• Planned cross-docking – Transportation cross-docking (based on route determination from defined route network) – Merchandise cross-docking (based on retail allocation for inbound delivery split across multiple retailers)

• Opportunistic cross-docking – Inbound-driven (automatic check at goods receipt for suitable outbound orders/delivery items) – Outbound-driven (automatic check at wave release for suitable inbound orders / delivery items) – Push deployment (automatic SAP Service Parts Planning (SPP) demand check for incoming parts) – Pick from goods receipt (automatic SAP SPP customer back order check for needed parts in goods receipt)


SAP EWM – Labor Management

Labor Planning /Simulation

Short & mid-term resource planning based on

Planned workload (ERP

purchase orders & deliveries) Planned work duration

(Engineered labor standards, historical data, route network / travel distances)

Workload Monitoring

Planned / executed task monitoring

Warehouse orders, indirect labor, physical inventory…

RF & desktop-based task confirmation

Exceptions & alerts

Labor Analytics / Reporting

Task performance reporting Employee & supervisor

views Direct & indirect labor Planned & actual times

Cross-warehouse / DC comparison

Performance transfer to HCM

Increased warehouse productivity with labor & resource planning, visibility and reporting

Accurate workload forecast for efficient capacity balancing

Real-time labor activity visibility for improved efficiency & timely problem


Leading Edge Warehouse Technology Integration

Increased accuracy, efficiency, and visibility

Material flow system (MFS) • Programmable logical controllers (PLC) • Pallet and case conveyors

Native technology integration • Mobile radio frequency (RF) • Pick by voice • RFID


World-class Analytics with SAP EWM

Cross-warehouse performance monitoring

Comprehensive, central warehouse operation monitor

Cross Distribution Center Performance

Comprehensive, real-time warehouse operations reporting


Our Approach / Methodology

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• Phased Approach vs Big Bang • We always recommend the phased pilot based approach vs any big bang alternate

• Technical Migration vs Full Fledged Functional Process Improvements • Almost always Pilot Driven Technical Migration – after Roadmap has been drawn up • Technical Migration with chosen few process changes to begin with at pilot site • Expand to cover additional chosen process improvements at pilot • Prepare Phased Roll Out plan • Execute Roll Out Plan


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Start with executable content Verify solution scenarios meeting business needs

Tailor solution in short, time boxed sprints

Cutover and begin productive use

Template Presentation to stakeholders

Determination of solution, scope and value

Implementation Plan Solution Validation

Gap identification and Closure

Determination of config values

Approval of release & plan Configuration

Testing

Data migration

Solution walkthrough

Support for Production

In Production

Cut over

Organizational & Production readiness

Prepare Explore Realize Deploy


WM to EWM Migration Approach

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Technical Migration

Project Preparation

Realization Cut-over and

Final Preparation

Go-Live and Support

Migration EWM Functionality Implementation

Blue Print

The WM-EWM migration approach has multiple benefits and implications on the project timeline,

and cost.

Blueprint phase On a typical EWM blueprint there is significant time allocated to the explanation and demonstration of EWM core objects. Business needs to fully comprehend the concepts in order to formulate their requirements. This is clearly where the main benefit of the migration approach resides. The business’ familiarity with those core concepts will highly improve their engagement in the project and their ability to think along with new possibilities within EWM. Moreover, the scope of the blueprint discussions would get focused on the EWM specific features such as process and layout-oriented storage control, warehouse order creation rules, and wave management.

Realization phase With the migration tool that has been made available by SAP, the configuration of the migrated objects gets reduced to simply tweaking the additional EWM-specific options. For example, a warehouse process type will be available with the settings that were in place on the WM warehouse movement type. The biggest block of the configuration will then get shifted toward setting up the EWM specific functionalities.


SAP ERP WM to EWM – Leverage Standard Migration Tools

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Products, Bins, Stock, Inventory,...

Master data migration • Warehouse Product Migration • Storage Bin Migration • Stock Migration • Physical Inventory Completeness Migration • Map Storage Unit Type to Packaging Material • Map Warehouse Management Unit of Measure to

Packaging Material

SAP provides a user-friendly migration tool that covers most of the in-scope objects. This tool is available as part of the EWM module and works by reading the data, through an RFC connection, from the source WM system and downloading it into a file that could then be uploaded to the destination EWM system. The functions available to migrate data from an LE-WM system to SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).


Wise Men Active – Implementation for SAP EWM

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• Wise Men Active Methodology for SAP EWM tailored specifically to accelerate and simplify the adoption of Warehouse Management

• Processes delivered with Wise Men Active Best Practices support core industry requirements and manage Multiple Geographies, Subsidiaries, Country specific Requirements

• All the Best Practices are pre-Configured and are ready to use for Complex Implementations within short time

• Wise Men Active Methodology uses SAP Activate and Solution Manager pre-configuration and preliminary requirements for SAP EWM Implementation

• Our Solution can be adopted as Agile methodology for All Enhancements Benefits to Customer:

• Predefined templates, objects and best practices available in a guided process

• Achieving Faster TIME TO VALUE and reduced COST of Implementation


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Wise Men – SAP EWM Sample Reports…

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Some of the Key Lessons Learnt….

• Data Migration and Data Validation is Key

• In a heavily customized system start RICEFW migration and optimization process upfront

• Customize on need basis for the delta (which could be less than 10%). You have all the time after go live to continue enhancing the system

• Integration / Regression and UAT Test Planning and Test execution

• Strong change management plan


Questions & Answers

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