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End-to-end warehouse management and material flow control with the SAP LES/TRM suite has also made an impressive entry into the market for highly-automated logistics centres. With the SAP SCM component SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), SAP now provides an additional warehouse management component with extra features for expanded application domains.Both warehouse solutions, i.e. SAP LES (SAP Logistics Execution System) and SAP EWM (SAP Extended Warehouse Management), are future-proof SAP standard software products and offer decisive advantages in their respective specialised domains of application. Both solutions offer an integrated SAP Task and Resource Management (SAP TRM).While SAP LES (SAP Logistics Execution System) is more suited to a centralised IT strategy (focus on inte

From 2006, SAP has been offering SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) as part of mySAP SCM vers. 5.0.Under the hood, SAP has added new features for SAP warehouse management for specific industries.As one example, SAP EWM (SAP Extended Warehouse Management) now offers considerably more support than before for system owners in the service parts logistics segment. Features here include the modelling of variants as well as "Service Parts Planning & Execution". SAP EWM (SAP Extended Warehouse Management) also offers improved multi-client capabilities (multi-customer warehousing), which is especially important for logistics service providers.SAP EWM (SAP Extended Warehouse Management) also facilitates improved goods logistics within distributed warehouse centres. Frequently-requested arti

SAP is advancing into hitherto-neglected areas of production control and closing the gap between SAP ERP and the machine control layer. This allows SAP MII to control production in real time.As a general rule, various systems are already in use in automated factories today, for plant data collection, process and machine data, quality systems, assembly instructions as well as for interfacing with underlying machine control systems. Often, these systems have developed over time and are usually based on different IT technologies.With SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), SAP offers a standardized and highly flexible IT platform for vertical data integration that is precisely tailored to the requirements of the production floor. SAP MII (SAP Manufacturing Integration and In

Project brief: In Bingen-Kempten, AMC Alfa Metalcraft Corporation has opened a new and central distribution warehouse for all of Europe.The goal was to set up a simple and ruggedly designed plant featuring optimum use of space. Thanks to optimised routing within the site and a clear-cut process structure, employees can work flexibly and maximum flexibility for the plant's overall output is also ensured.At the heart of the site is a new picking centre, which has been incorporated into the existing building. Project specifications 60 drive systems, 12 scannersPools in the control units for tote routingInterfaces to automated strapping and bonding machinesID point with tote and order entry Image gallery

IGZ Falkenberg recognised in 2008 as one of Bavaria's top fifty businessesFalkenberg-based IGZ Logistics + IT has been the recipient of a very special accolade by the Bavarian State government: on 2 July 2008, the company was recognised as one of the top fifty businesses in all of Bavaria by Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs, Transport and Technology Emilia Müller. The coveted accolade of being a "BAVARIA'S BEST 50" company was accepted in person by the two managing partners of IGZ Logistics + IT, Wolfgang Gropengießer and Johann Zrenner, from the Bavarian State Minister at an awards ceremony held in the Munich Residenz.Each year, the regional government awards this prize in recognition of the Free State of Bavaria's 50 most dynamic companies, who have managed to achieve the ki

In pursuing the further implementation of its master SAP strategy, Dr. Oetker has successfully replaced the legacy warehouse management and control system used for frozen pizza production and distribution with a centrally-supported SAP LES/TRM (Logistics Execution System/Task and Resource System) logistics solution.From goods receipt of the raw materials to production of the frozen pizzas and the loading of the finished and palletised products, SAP now gives goods movements the end-to-end traceability required by EU Regulation 178/202, down to each pallet and batch. At any point in time, SAP LES (SAP Logistics Execution System) has details of the stock (value and quantity), the storage bin and the production batch/date, using SAP TRM (SAP Task and Resource Management) to manage the four fu

Due to its considerable savings in volume, automated storage is increasingly being designed and implemented as a double- or multiple-deep system. One less aisle in the design also means one less stacker crane, which in turns reduces the level of capital expenditure. Recent studies show that even despite the inevitable relocation operations (in the absence of direct access to the bay far from the aisle), double-deep storage can yield higher rates of throughput than single-deep storage.Implementing multi-deep storage places its own special demandson the warehouse management and material flow control system, however, such as: Specialised putaway strategies, to minimise the likelihood of goods relocationReservation of handling units near the aisle for removal, wherever possiblePair formation a

For Apetito, the new warehouse with 6,000 pallet bays is an investment in the future – and in the IT systems deployed. Following a SAP LES (SAP Logistics Execution System) deployment analysis conducted by SAP LES (SAP Logistics Execution System) specialists from IGZ, Apetito decided to expand its existing SAP R/3 Logistics Execution System with SAP WMS and Handling Unit Management (SAP HUM) by an additional component: SAP Task and Resource Management (SAP TRM) was introduced to handle SAP material flow control for the fully-automated high-bay warehouse.No SAP subsystems are required:an architecture has now been created that consists of just two tiers – the SAP IT system itself and the underlying (SIEMENS S7) programmable logic controllers for the stacker cranes and pallet conveyor syst