Extended Warehouse Management vs Centralized Warehouse Management

[Former Member]

Hi all:

I would like you to ask some basic doubts about eWM,

1. eWM is part of SCM solution or it can work with out SCM?

2. eWM is an add on of SCM?

3. What would be the principals characteristics of using eWM insted of centralized solution?

Thanks for your help

Regards

[bcrao · Accepted solution]

Hi,

EWM can be used as ADD on based on ERP or as part of SCM

[Former Member]

Hi Juan,

To answer your questions:

1. eWM is part of SCM solution or it can work with out SCM?

A. EWM is part of the SCM solution set but can also be implemented on an ERP system as an add-on - in both instances they are treated like a decentralised system (which the SCM solution will be).

2. eWM is an add on of SCM?

A. See above

3. What would be the principals characteristics of using eWM instead of centralized solution?

A. EWM offers the ability to build and support highly optimised and sophisticated warehouse processes, it offers significantly broader functionality than ERP-WM and comparable task optimisation of ERP WM with a TRM (task and resource management) layer.

The characteristics of the decentralised solution involve the master data being distributed via the CIFF and transactional data via qRFC.

Technical performance considerations, implementation path, and system availability will often dictate the use of the separate SCM-EWM solution.

Thanks James

[Former Member]

Thanks, very helfull answer