SAP engineering expertise for your project Strategy – Software – Technology
IGZ – the SAP engineers – provide end-to-end coverage for SAP projects in logistics and production.
As a first step, this comprises strategic SAP/IT consulting for a SAP module deployment analysis, as well as high-level plant and process planning.
In the second step, a detailed planning phase is followed by SAP software implementation and the expert integration of process/plant control systems (of any kind) with the SAP software. Implementation is rounded off by our Service/Support: at IGZ, the core competencies for your SAP project can be found under one roof!
With our engineer's mindset and our experience, IGZ ensures that all of the various parts of the project fit perfectly together.
Our values
We strengthen and protect you. We want to make full use of technical possibilities to achieve maximum performance with minimum use of resources in production and distribution logistics. We are committed to this clear goal.
A living partnership with our customers is the central value with which we pursue our vision. We base our thoughts and actions on strong cooperation.
In order to be successful as a strong partner together with our customers in the areas of warehousing, automation, manufacturing and transportation, we rely on important characteristics that reflect our performance standards:
- Innovation: with profound engineering knowledge, we realize the latest technology whose implementation supports our customers' logistics systems.
- Owner-managed company: Direct decision-making channels and professional competence at all levels lead to speedy project realization. This is our brand promise.
- Solidity: Numerous companies rely on our solutions. We rely on references that work reliably. This experience benefits your project.
- Precision: Quality is our claim. Outstandingly trained specialists contribute to our success. They know where to pull the right lever.
- Transparency: We let customers share in our methodology. We not only clearly know what we do, we also say, show and explain it. The desire for openness unites us with our customers.
- Down-to-earth: We understand the importance of projects to our clients. As a healthy growing company rooted in the region, we are always able to understand our customers' development.
Company history
- Company foundation IGZ (abbreviation for "Ingenieure Gropengießer und Zrenner") at the Falkenberg site by engineers Wolfgang Gropengießer and Johann Zrenner
- Highly specialized engineering services for SAP customers in intralogistics
- IGZ software barn 1.0 in Falkenberg
- Realization of the world's first mobile data collection for warehouse logistics in SAP WM
- Certification as SAP Special Expertise Partner Warehousing
- Realization of the world's first material flow control system with SAP standard software
- Certified SAP direct connection of programmable logic controllers (PLC)
- Certification as SAP Special Expertise Partner Automation (warehouse automation)
- New building IGZ software barn 2.0 in Falkenberg
- Development of 3D plant emulation for virtual commissioning (SAP EWM Digital Twin)
- First SAP EWM project (incl. SAP MFS)
- Portfolio expanded to include SAP MES (production control)
- First of a total of three awards as "Bavaria's Best 50" company
- Highly automated intralogistics projects with SAP EWM/MFS
- Approx. 120 permanent employees
- New building IGZ software barn 3.0 in Falkenberg
- Standard integration of SAP EWM with SAP MES
- Development of own control technology (SPS) for automated storage and conveyor systems
- Integration of company "Walberer Steuerungstechnik" and renaming to "IGZ Automation
- Expansion of portfolio SAP-EWM general contractor projects
- New construction of plant 2 at the Erbendorf site
- Awarded "SAP Quality Award" in "GOLD" (for SAP-EWM-Project)
- SAP EWM general contractor projects in the double-digit million range
- SAP EWM for high-performance logistics systems (miniload, shuttle, sorter)
- Expansion of IGZ best practices and own IGZ products (patents)
- Development of gesture-controlled picking: “Pick by Motion”
- Approx. 300 permanent employees
- New building IGZ software barn 4.0 in Falkenberg
- Extension portfolio SAP TM (Transportation Management)
- Development of robot-controlled picking: “Pick by Robot”
- Expansion of plant 2 at the Erbendorf site
- Approx. 500 permanent employees
- Development of "Assembly by Motion" worker assistance system
- SAP-EWM general contractor major order with >35 million Euro order volume
- "German Innovation Award" for robot-controlled picking solution "LUKE2
- "German Innovation Award" for intelligent worker assistance system "IDA2
- Expansion of SAP Manufacturing portfolio with SAP DM
- New construction of IGZ software barn 5.0 in Falkenberg (new headquarters)
- Approx. 550 permanent employees
- Leading SAP partner for the Digital Supply Chain
- >40 IGZ Best Practice solutions for SAP EWM, TM, MES, DMC
- IGZ products and patents awarded several times
- More than 2,000 stacker cranes and more than 1,000 shuttle vehicles controlled directly from SAP EWM
- Expansion of sustainability strategy (Green Logistics and Green Production)
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Certifications in logistics, production and automation
We give our best every day and always want to meet the latest standards - for the satisfaction of our customers. That's why we regularly measure ourselves against the best!
Whether certifications directly from SAP or from other institutes such as the Fraunhofer Institute: as a company, we undergo regular inspections and quality audits in the areas of logistics, production and automation. How you benefit from this: You can rely on the consistently high quality of our services and performance, which is verified and confirmed by independent third parties .
SAP certifications
SAP certifies its partners according to various quality criteria that prove the expertise of partners in specialist topics (e.g. Recognized Expertise Partner) as well as according to quantity criteria (e.g. many reference customers/projects in a specific industry). We have been certified for specialist topics along the digital supply chain and as a partner for individual sectors.
The IGZ-SAP certifications:
- SAP Recognized Expertise Partner (REX) Warehousing
- SAP Recognized Expertise Partner (REX) Manufacturing
- SAP Recognized Expertise Partner (REX) Supply Chain Management
- SAP Special Expertise Partner EWM; Automation (PLC) and Manufacturing Execution
- SAP Validated Expertise Partner SCE
- SAP Logistics Service Provider (LSP)
- SAP Process Industry
- SAP Partner
- SAP Quality Awards (more information)
Certifications from Fraunhofer "warehouse logistics"
The warehouse-logistics.com logistics IT database, which is operated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, is one of the world's most comprehensive databases for the functional comparison of logistics IT systems. The validation is based on questionnaires that cover up to 3,700 aspects, depending on the system. Only after a system has been successfully validated by the independent "warehouse logistics team" does a WMS receive the WMS industry's seal of quality - as we have done continuously since 2009.
IGZ – Member of the Association of German Engineers
The Association of German Engineers (VDI e.V.) is the largest technical and scientific association in Germany. For more than 160 years, the VDI has been the most important initiator of new technologies and technical solutions for a better quality of life, a better environment and greater prosperity. Together it actively shapes the future and works as a close partner of the German economy and science.
The engineers of the network are united by their fascination for technology and their ambition to change the world in a positive way. But also the diversity of the members contributes as a source of different backgrounds, points of view and opinions to achieve a continuous positive development. IGZ also benefits from the exchange with other highly professional specialists and takes advantage of the large community of engineers to constantly keep its finger on the pulse with all its technical innovations and to expand the knowledge of its employees.
