Individual EWM
Ten years ago, the clothing retailer Ernsting's Family and Körber first relied on a cross-location, end-to-end warehouse and material flow control system using SAP EWM. Since then, the systems have been repeatedly modernized, expanded and renewed, and the EWM capabilities have been further expanded. With the implementation and integration of a new e-commerce warehouse, an automated small parts warehouse and three pocket sorters, Körber has raised the capacity, performance and dynamics of an SAP EWM-based logistics infrastructure to a new level by 2024.
Ernsting's Family has a network of 1925 stores, an online store and a mobile store. From 2011, SAP EWM was implemented together with Körber at both logistics locations, with up to 800,000 delivery items per day. Since then, Körber has continuously expanded and extended the logistics capacities at the company's distribution centers, and the SAP environment has grown with it. At the heart of the logistics system is a 15-aisle mini-load warehouse with 290,000 storage locations and a capacity of 1,800 cartons/h, which Körber built in 2023 as one of the largest automated small parts warehouses for fashion in Europe using a silo design. A high-bay warehouse in Klieken and in Lette are also connected, along with picking and replenishment workstations. In this constellation, the SAP MFS module for material flow control is being used for the first time in the small parts warehouse. The SAP MFS communicates with the PLCs of the conveyor technology and controls the routing of the cartons. Thanks to the integrated module, all relevant data is available so that, for example, a seamless integration of replenishment and picking can be mapped in EWM. In order to guarantee and document the required high performance and availability, Körber implemented self-developed tools in SAP EWM and optimized existing functionalities for telegram and process processing.
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