Endress+Hauser brought io on board for the implementation. The interdisciplinary lead consultant successfully implemented the measures as part of an integrated overall design, which it developed for the Maulburg site, in the spring of last year. “We rely on our proven standard implementation approach,” explains project manager Thomas Kopany. “The activate methodology is based on scrum – and stands out with its comparatively short project timelines. It was developed specifically to meet SAP project implementation requirements.”

It may sound like routine practice, but it is by no means standard procedure in day-to-day planning. Even when set up in this way, implementation is not something that can be approached casually, as Matthias Kaiser, Project Manager Business Processes at Endress+Hauser, explains: “Warehousing always means physics. Due to this fact, there is a limit to how much the reality of logistics processes can be tested and predicted in advance of the go-live.” This is exacerbated by the fact that the warehouse structures and their processes in Maulburg have grown historically and are now at full capacity, as Kaiser explains further. “The project comprised two small parts warehouses, two pallet warehouses and various external and replenishment warehouses with varying degrees of automation. The way these are organized and what they actually contain can be represented in the system with approximately 80% accuracy. There is a lot to consider and take into account.”