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.

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Johann Zrenner Executive Director, IGZ

Profile

Over 600 permanent employees
Locations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Worldwide on the road for our customers
Certified SAP Partner: Digital Supply Chain
Several patents for IGZ best practice solutions
Various awards – e.g. Bavaria's Best 50

Our values

We strengthen and protect you. We want to make full use of technical possibilities in order to achieve maximum performance with minimum use of resources in production and distribution logistics. We have committed ourselves 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, the implementation of which supports our customers' logistics systems.

Solidity

Numerous companies rely on our solutions. We rely on references that work reliably. Your project benefits from this experience.

Transparency

We share our methodology with our customers. We not only know clearly what we do, we also say, show and explain it. The desire for openness unites us with our customers.

Owner-managed company

Direct decision-making channels and professional expertise at all levels lead to rapid project realization. This is our brand promise.

Precision

Quality is our claim. Highly trained specialists contribute to our success. They know where to apply the right leverage.

Down-to-earth approach

We are aware of the importance of projects for our customers. As a healthy, growing company that is rooted in the region, we can always follow the development of our customers.

We

are and remain an independent and owner-managed family business.
occupy the leading market position in our field through continuous growth.
offer innovative services that make our customers more independent.
are and remain technologically number one in our field.

promote and challenge our employees responsibly in line with our corporate life goals.
achieve high quality and adherence to schedules through professional working methods.
maintain a solid, sustainable, comprehensible and continuous corporate policy.

Our success story

1999 – Software barn 1.0

Our story begins in 1999 in an old, renovated agricultural building (“software barn”) in Falkenberg.

There, the engineers Wolfgang Gropengießer and Johann Zrenner jointly founded IGZ with the aim of realizing innovative and sophisticated logistics with SAP standard software.

2000 – Champagne on tour

And it wasn't long before we got our first project! We implemented an SAP logistics project for Schenker for the Germany-wide distribution of spirits from the French LVMH group at the Schweinfurt site.

We were the first company in the world to manage to run SAP software on small mobile forklift and hand-held terminals – a minor miracle in the SAP world of the time.

2005 – We are building: IGZ Software barn 2.0

Not only the number of projects is increasing, but also the number of employees: we are therefore expanding our Falkenberg location to include the software barn 2.0.

2007 – SAP EWM-controlled automated warehouse

An important milestone for us and for the entire SAP logistics industry was the first pilot deployment of the new SAP EWM material flow control for fully automated high-bay warehouses and small parts warehouses.

We had even received a development order from SAP for the SAP MFS module. We were also able to win Esco as our first customer for this module.

2008 – Production control with SAP MES

In 2008, SAP decided to enter the market for production control and it quickly became clear to us that this was also a good fit for our portfolio!

Werner&Mertz (Erdal) from Mainz was quickly found as the first innovative customer for this project and today we can look back on a long and successful partnership.

2010 – We are building: Software barn 3.0

With around 120 permanent employees, it is time for our software barn 3.0. We specialize in highly automated intralogistics projects, especially with SAP EWM/MFS.

2011 – SAP EWM general contractor

In order to further expand our range of services and also gain a foothold in control technology, we founded IGZ Automation by acquiring and integrating the company Walberer Steuerungstechnik.

This laid the first foundation stone for our services as a general contractor for SAP EWM.

2017 – SAP Digital Supply Chain complete

In 2017, we developed further SAP modules and added the area of transport management with SAP TM to our portfolio.

This further rounded off our SAP Digital Supply Chain portfolio and we can fully support our customers in the process chain.

2020 – On course for further growth

The construction of our new headquarters, the Software Barn 5.0, marked the beginning of a new chapter for us.

The modern and sustainably designed building offers space for further expansion.

2024 – Award-winning innovations

We have been honored with the German Innovation Award for four consecutive years: 2021 for Pick by Robot (LUKE2), 2022 for Assembly by Motion (IDA2), 2023 for Packing Assistant (HAWK2) and 2024 for Move by Robots. “Driven by Innovation” – and that since 1999 to today!

We have also opened our new Innovation Center – customers can experience and test our technologies for themselves in a space of over 300 square meters.

2025+ – Leading supply chain provider

We are constantly growing and thus securing our leading market position. We rely on technological excellence and innovative services that enable our customers to be more independent.

Our company in figures

Employees development

Sales development

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.