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Extended Warehouse Management
Manufacturing Industry Solutions - Innovation and
Transformation Group
Manufacturing

As organizations focus on customer satisfaction with renewed intensity, manufacturers are
setting up warehouses at multiple locations in order to reduce the lead time to
reach customers. Increasing warehouse efficiency is an area of critical importance
for manufacturers today. However, use of multiple applications for improving various
warehouse functions such as yard management, inventory management, cross docking, value
added services within warehouses can overwhelm the users and
impact productivity.
Increase in the use of third-party logistics (3PL) companies to manage warehouse operations
has limited the control organizations have over their inventory at these warehouses.
Additionally, these logistics service providers, as well as different partners such as clients and
transporters use their own IT applications, adding to the complexity of the supply chain.
Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS’) SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) solution
streamlines and manages warehouse processes in a highly complex order
picking environment involving very large numbers and/or varieties of products.
Overview
During inbound and outbound goods movement,
manufacturing organizations find complex internal routing a
challenge within large warehouses. Managing this
movement becomes even more complex given the high
volume of products and variety of orders. Organizations need
to manage these workloads efficiently through optimal
utilization of storage space and resources in order to
accurately meet the requirements of demanding customers
and deliver on time.
Our SAP EWM solution enhances your present warehouse
capabilities and makes you ready for future challenges. Our
EWM expertise and capabilities bring you the benefits
beyond generic SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP
EWM) solutions.
SAP EWM is part of SAP SCM (Supply Chain Management),
designed for large and complex warehouses to handle high
volume materials and goods movements, vast product
differences, complex cross-docking requirements,
demanding order fulfillment and packaging requirements.
Our EWM solution addresses optimal utilization of large
storage space, efficient use of warehouse resources and
better integration with complex supply chain networks.
EWM is completely integrated with inventory management
and delivery processes in SAP ERP, resulting in control and
optimization of logistics execution processes.
Illustrative core functionalities of our ready to demonstrate
EWM solution are:
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Complex multi-step put-away process with
deconsolidation
Wave picking management
Outbound process with Value Added Services (VAS)
Cross-docking
Slotting
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Kitting
RF functionalities
Labour Management
Warehouse Cockpit functionality
Benefits
EWM enables you to reduce overall warehousing cost as well as
ensure clearer visibility and control of all warehouse activities using a
monitoring cockpit. You can integrate mobile radio frequency devices
seamlessly with your warehouse processes without adding a
middleware and align them closely with the warehouse layout. EWM
facilitates:
Efficient inbound and outbound processes
Complex multi-step put-away with deconsolidation helps you
efficiently handle process steps like unloading, unpacking,
deconsolidation (segregating materials from a packed unit), packing,
counting, inspection, re-packing, and re-labeling during the inbound
process.
Accurate execution of customer requirements
Value Added Services (VAS) support specifications involved in
customized packing and labeling requirements and provide
instructions to operators to execute the requirements efficiently.
Kitting supports delivery of materials in sets based on customer
requirements.
Optimal utilization of storage space and resources
Slotting ensures that the right products are stored at the right
locations in the warehouse. For example, fast moving products can
be stored in ‘golden-zone’ so that they can be accessed easily by the
operators. This can result in reduced travel distance as well as time
and increased productivity. Wave management helps you shorten the
overall loading time by grouping similar orders.
Improved logistics
EWM integrates your warehouse with third-party logistics service
providers for route determination, picking, packing and loading.
Cross-docking can optimize your inbound and outbound logistics
and reduce your transportation time by mapping incoming goods to
outbound area.

Cross Docking
The TCS Advantage
SAP EWM - Increase efficiency in Warehouse
TCS Ready to use solution for warehouse
Flexible & automated support of goods movement & manage inventory in complex warehouse
SAP EWM
SAP SCM
Customer challenges Solution Differentiators TCS Accelerators
Integrate Warehousing & Logistics
Cross docking of goods
Modernize & Optimize warehouse
and material flow management
Planning & Optimizing
warehouse tasks
Slotting &
Rearrangement
Resource management
optimization & cost efficiency
Inter linked End-to-End
solution view
Lab solution based on
Industry challenges
Compressed time to “Go-live”
with ready solutions
Pool of experienced SAP
warehouse experts
Industry Best Practices Based TCS Model for Extended Warehouse Management
TCS has been the foremost Global Services Partner for SAP from
Asia since 2006, offering SAP services for over 15 years now. The
strategic partnership spans from co-innovation to go-to-market
initiatives in multiple areas. Leveraging this alliance, we have
access to SAP organizations, expertise and stakeholders to
successfully deliver on various SAP projects and engagements.
Additionally, we have a dedicated SAP Center of Excellence (CoE).
The TCS team has extensive knowledge and understanding of
warehouse activities, requirements and challenges. Our team of
consultants has been a part of various engagements spanning
the entire range of functions in service parts management,
including warehouse management, for multiple global
manufacturers.
Kitting Deconsolidation Wave Picking RF Solutions
Plant in a Box – End to End solution
Pre configured Template
Ready to use BPML & BPP
Customer centric ready solution for
real life warehousing challenges
Domain & ERP expertise
Our EWM is a pre-configured solution which uses real-case
scenarios based on our experience of several customer
engagements in varied areas in manufacturing. Using these
scenarios, you can experience the solution and test it before you
decide to deploy it. This capability allows you to de-risk your
investment in the solution. The ready-to-use solution kit with
accelerators ensures faster turnaround time for solution
realization.

Contact
To know more about our Extended Warehouse Management solutions, contact
manufacturing.solutions@tcs.com
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