SAP EWM - warehouse management centrally integrated or decentralized in use

Our customers currently come to us with a wide variety of questions: How is a migration from SAP WM to SAP EWM executed as smoothly as possible? How can we map the usual market requirements in SAP EWM while reducing the number of our add-ons? Where can we become more efficient in warehouse logistics and save costs?

Our logistics are not very extensive and our logistics budget is limited - is there a cost-effective way to implement SAP EWM? What are the differences between decentralized SAP EWM and embedded SAP EWM and between SAP EWM Basic and Advanced - and which of them is the right one for us?

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Due to SAP's announcement that SAP ECC will be phased out of maintenance at the end of 2027 and SAP WM will run on SAP S/4HANA under Stock Room Management, many companies are faced with the decision of what to rely on in the future. One step for the integration of their own warehouse management into SAP's S/4HANA world can be the use of the embedded SAP EWM. In contrast to the previous decentralized warehouse management with SAP EWM, the centralized solution that is now possible provides greater user-friendliness and a simplified architecture. For the first time, an embedded SAP EWM was delivered with SAP S/4HANA Release 1610. Since then, further SAP EWM functionalities have been added to each new S/4HANA release.

abat helps you to find the right approach

SAP EWM and SAP S/4HANA can be operated separately as usual in the future. However, SAP S/4HANA now additionally offers an embedded EWM. This opens up many new application possibilities compared to SAP WM - the only central warehouse management system in SAP to date. Even in the basic version, Embedded EWM offers resource management, graphical storage bin management, exception handling and much more compared to WM. For companies that have previously used SAP WM and do not require the full scope of an SAP EWM system, an SAP S/4HANA with Embedded SAP EWM in the Basic Version is thus an optimal solution.

In addition, SAP also offers an embedded SAP EWM in the Advanced Version in S/4HANA. Its functional scope corresponds to that of the classic SAP EWM. These are optimization and integration functionalities, such as the components for the material flow system (SAP MFS) and dock appointment scheduling but also the seamless connection to SAP TM. The Advanced Version thus covers the complete material flow, starting with the conveyor technology and automation in the warehouse, through yard control, to the entire supply chain.

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