Template for a manual narrow and wide aisle storage system
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG introduces SAP EWM on S/4HANA.
Global IT landscape standardization
HEIDELBERG, based in Wiesloch-Walldorf, has a number of production sites in Germany, Switzerland and China. The company’s long history means that an overall landscape of complex systems and disparate processes has evolved. On top of this, security risks and cost issues were further drivers towards standardizing the IT landscape while keeping end-to-end processes as the central vision of business process management.
The new production business architecture is aimed at creating a platform strategy for representing the digital product twin both mechanically and electrically, complemented by a scalable, flexible, cloud/edge Docker-based integration layer.
EWM roadmap – Wiesloch Hall 11
The new platform strategy calls for the sites to now be implemented step by step using standardized project tooling. “Hall 11” at the Wiesloch site was selected as the pilot project. This was mapped as a supply warehouse in the project and the in-house developed warehouse management system replaced with a decentralized SAP EWM on S/4HANA 2020.
The successfully implemented project serves as an EWM blueprint for global rollouts, using template processes and functions for other sites.
Key Facts
Client
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) uses modern, innovative technologies in the printing industry. HEIDELBERG is one of the leading companies in the industry worldwide. This high level of technical expertise is now also being exploited to open up new areas of business, such as electromobility. This has brought about the need to standardize an overall landscape of complex systems and disparate processes that has evolved over many years.
Highlights
- Supply warehouse for production and the customer demonstration center, as well as spare parts storage
- Template for a manual narrow and wide aisle warehouse for storage and staging zones for supply
- SAP standardization as part of the One ERP and New EWM project with a focus on implementing organizational and procedural changes
- Use of the EWM standard interface with adaptation of the ERP interface developed in-house
- EWM pilot for global rollouts using template processes and functions for other sites
The introduction of SAP EWM in Hall 11 at the Wiesloch-Walldorf site marks our first step towards mapping all warehouse processes worldwide in a single warehouse management system and replacing the in-house warehouse management programs that are nearing the end of their useful life.
EWM roadmap – Amstetten production warehouse
The Amstetten site needed more than just an automated high-bay warehouse with adjacent conveyor technology. This site was used as the catalyst to designing a template for all production warehouses. A cross-site analysis of production processes was carried out, with the findings being used as standard in all future warehouses.
In a two-pronged approach, a new interface to SAP DM was defined, and adjustments to the standard interface were made to ensure that material supplies to the production lines remain fully functional even with a phased introduction.
The existing control server was replaced by the MFS component of the EWM as part of the project, thus enabling direct control of the PLC.
Template definition and procedure
Template definition and procedure
- Template approach as regards methodology and documentation
Standardized conventions at abstract level
Definition of CORE elements
Definition of CLUSTER elements Template procedure:
Explore phase
Realization
Hypercare
If necessary, rollback of the new/changed processes
We count ourselves fortunate to have io at our side, an implementation partner who specializes in consulting and implementing EWM, bringing its impressive project approach to the table and tackling this challenging project together with us.
