Streamline your warehouse processes

SAP Extended Warehouse Management Application

Optimized by IBM DB2 and IBM POWER7
Highlights
Gain inventory visibility and product traceability to adapt easily to customer demands Modernize and optimize the heart of your supply chainyour warehouse Reduce storage and fulllment costs With supply chains being adversely affected by market uncertainties, companies face greater challenges in managing their logistics environments. How can you optimize asset utilization, balance automation and labor, and maintain high throughput? The SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application, optimized by the IBM DB2 database environment and IBM POWER7 servers, can help you streamline your processes to keep your supply chain running smoothly. IBM and SAP can help you optimize your warehouse management system with a cost-effective deployment model. With deployment by IBM as a natural footprint expansion for SAP customers, SAP EWM addresses the technology obsolescence challenge IT departments face in the area of warehouse management. It also addresses the business-side challenges faced by supply chain professionals, extending supply chain operation capabilities beyond company boundaries and enabling collaboration. And IBM has been implementing warehouse management systems for over a decade, so we are familiar with most of the products companies are running and can analyze your current system. SAP EWM can help you meet this challenge so you can better manage risk, make inventory more visible, contain costs and adapt to customer expectations.

Update your logistics environment

Are you at the technology end-of-life for your current warehouse management solution? Businesses that have an existing warehouse management solution may nd it capable of meeting the historical needs of the business, but unable to adapt to current and future requirements.

Solution brief

Gain greater efciencies

SAP EWM is a state-of-the-art, best-inclass warehouse management application that supports high warehouse productivity and efciency. You can integrate the warehouse management process with other key logistics and fulllment processes, like transportation management, global trade management, available-topromise checks and event management. SAP EWM can help you: Control warehouse processes: Manage movements in the warehouse, from point-of-goods receipt to goods issue, and in the yard, from the time a trailer checks in until a product is packed and shipped. Improve warehouse efciency: Mitigate problems and major issues with high inventory accuracy, stock and process transparency, storage planning and process optimization, and execution. Gain real-time visibility and control of warehouse operations: Transform operations into an adaptive fulllment supply chain in which your customers, suppliers and partners share knowledge and resources.

Increase competitiveness and bottom-line revenue: Respond faster to changes in supply and demand. Improve labor management and benet from advanced slotting functionality: Increase efciency to dramatically reduce your storage and fulllment costs. Integrate automation: Efciently balance automation and labor to maintain high throughput. Use a proven, scalable, integrated solution: Take advantage of DB2 and POWER7 servers with support from IBM Services and IBM Global Financing.

In addition, SAP EWM can address common requests not supported by older warehouse management systems such as labor management, slotting to reduce breakage and accelerate picking, and value-added services such as special labeling and packaging. It provides greater visibility for real-time product availability checking and credit approval prior to pickup. The solution also provides an integrated quality management engine to conrm that products adhere to specications. Risk management is provided through traceability with complete batch, lot or serial number visibility to manage recalls and product diversions.

More functionality, greater exibility

With SAP EWM, your business can increase warehouse productivity and efciency from inventory to labor management to customer service. IBM is a leading implementer of SAP EWM and the sole developer of a SAP EWM accelerator template that includes conguration, testing and training. And IBM has the ability to combine other elements into a single appliance purchase, including hardware, software, databases and consulting.

A quality management engine

SAP EWM provides exible deployment options and seamless integration into the SAP Business Suite applications using standard SAP integration technology. It is highly congurable with standard SAP enhancement functionalities, including radio frequency (RF), radio frequency identication (RFID), automation and Pick-byVoice. The solution includes hardware, software licenses, training materials, testing materials and precongured warehouse processes that can be expanded to meet your specic situation.

Better warehouse management is better business

From the warehouse and in the yard, you can benet from controlled warehouse processes with managed movements, improved warehouse efciencies, near realtime visibility into operations, and reduced storage and fulllment costs. In addition, the ability to respond faster to changes in supply and demand can increase your overall competitiveness and bottom line. SAP and IBM bring together a best-inclass warehouse management solution to help you transform operations into an adaptive fulllment supply chain in which your customers, suppliers and partners share knowledge and resources.

A signicant indicator of DB2 leadership is the fact that SAP relies on it for its daily operations. SAP runs DB2 for its own business production environment, and it is the preferred platform for development in both organizations. This helps to ensure deep integration with SAP applications, superior performance, extreme scalability and low total cost of ownership.

and people. It can help businesses install applications faster and manage them more easily, as well as provide rock-solid security, virus-resistance and legendary system uptime.

IBM and SAP

With a partnership that dates back to the founding of SAP nearly 40 years ago, IBM has the close relationship, experience and expertise needed to make the most of your SAP investment. IBM stands out with its truly end-to-end, holistic set of offerings and capabilities that is unmatched in breadth, depth and quality. IBM offerings span the entire SAP requirements spectrum, from leading technology, to comprehensive services, to industry-specic solutions co-developed with SAP. In 2010, SAP awarded to IBM an SAP Pinnacle Award for customer satisfaction and Global Technology Partner of the Year.

IBM POWER7
IBM and SAP have worked together closely to provide tested, optimized applications for the IBM Power Systems platform. POWER7 servers build on this legacy, offering unparalleled capabilities for clients to help reduce risk and more easily respond to business change. The Power Systems platform is designed for simple management and high availability so you can concentrate on running your business rather than managing your IT environment.

IBM DB2
Extreme reliability, performance and availability are critical to all SAP systems and the applications that depend on those SAP systems. DB2 is optimized and tested jointly by IBM and SAP experts before any new versions of DB2 or SAP solutions are released. This synchronization of both IBM and SAP releases helps keep DB2 invisible to the customer, yielding less risk and more cost savings.

For more information

POWER7 servers offer an ideal combination of open standards and integration, enabling freedom of application choice on a wide variety of operating systems. The Power Systems family is designed to free businesses from IT complexity and improve the responsiveness of both systems To learn more about the SAP Extended Warehouse Management application, optimized by DB2 and POWER7, please contact your IBM or SAP representative, or visit the following websites: ibm-sap.com sap.com/ewm

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