28 Points You Need to Know About SAP WM Implementation
Source: 2003 SCM Expert and written by Vijay Garg, Senior SAP SCM Consultant, ICM America. Copyright Wellesley Information Services. Used by permission.
With greater emphasis on shipping efficiently and cost-effectively, it is important to have a successful and easy-to-work warehouse. This is why more companies are implementing the SAP R/3 Warehouse Management (WM) module. In my experience, however, some companies are not achieving all the possible benefits that WM can provide.
The problem is that companies often do not integrate WM well with other R/3 logistics modules — Inventory Management (IM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Quality Management (QM), and Plant Maintenance (PM). Consequently, the functions that WM was designed to perform are executed inefficiently.
Achieving those benefits requires that business managers, SAP project managers, WM design and implementation teams, and logistics module teams understand the touch-points and other factors that affect the interaction among various modules and provide integration tips. I will describe those factors and also provide a list of common implementation mistakes and tell you how to avoid them. If you've already implemented WM, then the information presented here might give you ideas for improving its operation.