Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

Why you will need EWM

Many organizations are migrating from their older SAP ECC6 solution to S/4HANA, the digital core for the future. S/4HANA comes packaged with EWM rather than the older SAP Warehouse Management (WM). SAP has made few enhancements to WM over the past several years and have targeted all new investment on EWM. Critically, SAP will not be supporting the WM solution after 2025.

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Mobile application choice is important

AP EWM is a feature-rich solution that can help organizations meet the challenge of increasing customer service requirements. But the mobile application you choose to use with it is key to leveraging all that great back-end EWM functionality. If mobile screens are complex and performance slow then productivity will take a hit and the significant investment in EWM will fall short of expectations.

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Challenges with earlier mobile solutions

The deployment of mobile solutions has had a checkered history in many organizations; early adventures included building applications in-house or using Systems Integrators. Rollouts often got bogged down as inflexible because hard-coded applications could not reflect localizations. In-house solutions were expensive to maintain as coders had to be bought in to do the smallest update.

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Functions & Features

mInventory is a big improvement from older mobile solutions and will allow you to squeeze every ounce of value from SAP EWM. It provides easy access to all the power in a modern mobile device, including photos, video, GPS, push notifications and attachments. RACETM, our no-code platform, enables rapid change to the solution, providing you with the agility to adapt in today's fast-paced environment.

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Why Innovapptive?

Innovapptive has been a dedicated mobile solution provider for over a decade. mInventory reflects our warehouse experience, customer input and insights into market trends. It comes with all the SAP EWM transactions built and ready to go. Our focus is to develop the best mobile solutions, support our customers on initial deployment and then empower them to rollout the solution themselves.

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Our Key Differentiator

RACE, our patented no-code platform, is a powerful tool to complement and supercharge your EWM roll-out. RACE allows rapid localization to meet different warehouse processes, operating systems, or compliance requirements. It comes packed with features to support configuration of workflows, design of barcode labels and forms, device integration and offline usage.

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Business Needs

Company leaders want a mobile EWM solution that’s intuitive to use, with fast performance and the agility to respond quickly to business changes. They need an application that supports their specific warehouse processes that can be easily scaled. Features that can drive warehouse productivity are a differentiator, including OCR, operational dashboards, and fast scanning.

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IT Needs

If you’re considering SAP Fiori apps or ITS Mobile for EWM, then take a deeper look. Both Fiori and ITS Mobile have significant drawbacks for warehouse use from an IT standpoint. They are browser-based, which slows performance, require expensive coding to reflect specific warehouse processes, struggle in offline modes, and are unable to leverage all the features of a modern mobile device.

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Commercial Needs

Recurring problems come up when evaluating mobile EWM options. Evaluations too often don’t consider the Total Costs of Ownership (TCO) over the contract. This means important costs are overlooked, including the in-house IT costs to develop and maintain a solution. Many evaluations only consider the costs of the mobile solution and not the total value and benefits derived.

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