What facility isn’t looking for ways to optimize your warehouse operation? One way many warehouses are accomplishing this is with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). SAP now offers it as a rapid-deployment solution (RDS). While there are many benefits of selecting an RDS, you should still do your due diligence to ensure it’s the right solution for your facility. To help, here are a few questions you may want to ask when evaluating EWM RDS:
Do You Require Strictly Predictable Outcomes?
This solution is specifically designed to eliminate uncertainty. It is delivered based on a menu of clearly priced services, each with an established project time frame. That greatly simplifies the process of budgeting and scheduling.
How Much Customization Will Be Required for the Deployment?
This solution is uniquely capable of being paired with SAP ERP Best Practices processes for the wholesale distribution. That streamlines every aspect of the deployment while achieving a more integrated overall solution.
Is Flexibility as Important as Speed?
As you begin to optimize the logistics of your new operation, this solution can be adjusted and extended as necessary. That spares you the time, cost, and integration issues of having to seek out a new solution to fit your evolving needs.
Must You Demonstrate Enterprise-Wide Improvements?
Your entire operations and planning strategy is impacted by this solution. The pick-to-ship cycle time is reduced, improving your warehouse’s performance ratings. The number of possible inventory runs each year increases, producing significant cost savings. And since the instances of shipping errors decline significantly, overall customer satisfaction is higher.
Are You Considering Various Storage Concepts?
SAP EWM rapid deployment is optimized to work with narrow aisle access, mezzanine, wide aisle, and bulk storage concepts. The included tools can help you weigh the relative merits of each concept, and, after selecting the right option for your company, quickly develop plans based around your choice.
Have You Had Issues with Common Master Data?
With this solution in place, you can quickly and easily establish the master data that you need to support your core warehouse functionality. It also establishes a master data integration concept that travels between SAP ERP and SAP EWM. In practice, the level of troubleshooting necessary is much less because the basic requirements for managing data have already been established.
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