Enable the next generation of retail Warehouse automation and Supply chain systems.
We offer the right SCM solutions and designs for digitalization, secure and innovative solutions. We help you improve the consumer experience in retail, on-the-go transactions that speed up and simplify the Outbound process as well as inventory management, online orders and delivery using SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) for Warehouse Management and SAP BTP solutions for Mobile and hand-held devices.
The SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) customer wins learned and gathered are being incorporated in our future Enterprise solutions with SCM software systems and their digital transformation initiatives to bring success into the deliverables
The e-comm environment will continue to be a complex demanding challenge for large traditional retailers who need to adapt their processes to allow multiple sales channels.
In a typical large retail store, multiple partners interact, receiving the goods from the distribution centers and vendors, and returns from customers undertaking activities such as picking and shipping for B2B, B2C, e-comm and Click and Collect orders. Ensuring goods are available quickly for the customers is the key challenge that all store managers have.
Introducing solutions supported by SAP EWM and SAP BTP into retail warehousing which integrate across their complex supply chain, will enable them to overcome some of these challenges, ensuring that large retailers can react to customer’s demands and ensuring stock availability and that they have resource available to fulfil timely delivery of products at a lower cost.
Retail companies have started diversifying the processes for their stores, trying to boost the transportation and the logistics operation to obtain faster deliveries.
The retail store is core for multiple inbound scenarios, mainly from vendors and distribution centers.
Implementing of SAP EWM in the retail Industry in the same SAP landscape, the operators can easily process the goods receipts and proceed with the put-away process without any additional repacking or relabeling activities. Upon the receipt of the packages prepared in the distribution centers, EWM can direct the goods straight from the goods receipt area to the good issue zone to fulfill supply demand.
It’s important for vendors to deliver to shops prior to the opening hours to solve this challenge, Dock Appointment Scheduling in EWM supports the ability to fix delivery hours for each vendor. Store Managers can therefore improve inbound planning so as to allocate the required resources to support the unloading and put-away activities.
In case distribution warehouses are having to support customer returns, moving this operation into the EWM, improves the overall operation, customer experience and overall operating costs. Any stock discrepancy occurs at the receipt of goods into the store, it will be easier to book the difference against the carrier or the issuing distribution center by using the appropriate exception codes.
Managing the picking area in EWM offers first, the opportunity to run the replenishment process to make stock available for the customers and secondly, to harmonize the logistics execution across all the store areas.
The replenishment process can be automatically triggered based on min/max quantity, or including the customer demand (e-comm etc.), as well as manually by any store operator after a visual check of the picking locations.
Managing the picking location in EWM is to provide a more efficient way of picking & packing e-comm orders using the “Pick by Cart and Packing” Fiori Apps.
SAP S/4 HANA Retail with embedded EWM, the operators are prompted to adopt those new logistics processes in a more simplified way using the Fiori Launchpad to handle both retail and the logistics processes at the same time.
One of the primary pain points in industries including retail, wholesale, and distribution are in maintaining precise and updated inventory. They require proper visibility across their inventories to carry out necessary operations.
SAP EWM offers its users much more than traditional warehouse management in terms of mobility, automation, and process visibility. SAP EWM becomes a seamless part of the full supply chain offering visibility about the location and processing status of each item in the warehouse.
Warehouse managers using SAP EWM would know exactly how long it takes to process inbound shipments or put them away. They know the exact resource cost in terms of labor and time. This helps standardize the activities and processes to make them scalable and responsive.
The sidecar approach with a decentralized S/4HANA EWM supports business scenarios and processes for complex and automated warehouses and distribution centers. This deployment option provides proven customer value, such as high-volume data processing, risk mitigation and scalability for large distribution centers.
In the retail industry, high-volume and high-performance warehouses and distribution centers are very common. In many cases warehouse automation like high rack storage, automated sorters and conveyors is in place. Decentralized SAP S/4HANA EWM can guarantee dedicated performance for retail warehouses as it receives a chunk of deliveries as workload from the SAP ERP system (SAP Merchandising for Retail or SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management) and can process this particular workload independent from the integrated SAP ERP system. In this way the warehouse can ensure the necessary short response times for the warehouse pickers and especially for the connected warehouse automation.
Decentralized SAP S/4HANA EWM can also guarantee the availability of a retail warehouse as it could even work on the received workload and perform the logistics processes during planned or exceptional downtimes of SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA.
The embedded EWM in SAP S/4HANA may be considered for small and medium retail warehouses and distribution centers with low volume, low throughput and without warehouse automation in place, like regional warehouses or small e-commerce distribution centers like dark stores. In those cases, a retailer can benefit from the simplified integration of embedded EWM to SAP S/4HANA business processes and from a lower TCO by running a single system.
Our Offerings
Lean and Nimble
Helping retailers run efficiently, deliver flexibility, availability, and cost savings.
Future-ready Core
Transforming the warehousing system to drive enterprise agility and deliver on growth promises.
Omnichannel experiences
Developing seamless customer experience across channels & providing personalized offers leveraging customer insights & Operational patterns
Supply Chain Optimization
Addressing the Supply chain disruption challenges through insights driven forecasting, E2E visibility, optimization of logistics & warehousing network
SAP MFS implementation & IoT enablement
Providing fully customized Material Flow Technology for Distribution Centres & IOT enablement without the need for an additional Warehouse Control Unit (WCU) or Warehouse Control System (WCS)
Retail-Specific Master Data
Helping retailers to maintain retail-specific master data. Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) provides you with new fields that can be defined in EWM only In addition to SAP ERP Master Data