The integrated functions and business processes within this warehouse management solution provide a high level of process and inventory transparency, precise planning of warehouse steps, as well as efficient distribution and storage.
[4] Achieving a viable return requires leveraging technology to improve and streamline the operation, not just automate existing, inefficient, and archaic processes.
Most EWM implementations result in qualitative and quantitative benefits such as fewer product handling steps, increased productivity, reduced errors, tighter inventory control, and improved inventory accuracy and order quality.
With the gate and provision zone in release 4.0, new organizational units are made available that aim to integrate the transport.
From now on, the existing MM component WM and the existing SD components Shipment (SHP) and Transportation (TRA) form a common logistics solution consisting of Warehouse Management (LE-WM), Shipment (LE-SHP) and Transport (LE-TRA).
2000 - While the 4.5 release was marked by consolidation of logistic functions, it obtained important new features in Release 4.6 like block entry into the LES, submodule with radio frequency (RF), and SAP transactions for mobile data acquisition.
2004 - The extension set 2.00 of the release 4.7 contains additional submodules that are connected to the core components of the LES.
2005 - The release mySAP ERP 2004 provides some additions in the Direct Store Delivery Backend area.
2013 - With the release 9.0, SAP combines its three systems Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Transportation Management (TM) and Event Management (EM), that are most important for the operative logistics, on the common system platform SAP Supply Chain Execution (SCE), thereby offering a lot of potential for optimizing the entire supply chain.
As far as the problem of changing quantities in delivered packagings is concerned, the standard version of EWM 9.0 offers a solution by using stock-specific units of quantity that will significantly facilitate the goods issue processes with different packaging units.