By reaching the 500 mark, IGZ, based in Falkenberg, Upper Austria, is further expanding its position as an SAP EWM general contractor in the field of intralogistics, particularly in connection with automated warehouse technology. This is because the lion's share of the 500 SAP EWM projects were also implemented with the SAP material flow component MFS (Material Flow System).

Hawle, a specialist in the development and manufacture of heavy-duty valves, is currently building a new automated high-bay warehouse to supply production at its headquarters in Frankenmarkt. IGZ will also implement SAP EWM/MFS here and, as usual, dispense with legacy systems to control the downstream plant technology. Another Hawle production facility is located in Kozieglowy.

The implementation of SAP EWM was brought forward at this location in order to be able to carry out the inventory in time for the upcoming turn of the year. The functionalities required for this were implemented based on the SAP standard RF framework, which will also be used in Frankenmarkt. IGZ's scope of services for this preliminary project ranged from the SAP EWM specification phase, which was launched in mid-October 2019, to the go-live, which took place just a few weeks later at the end of November.

This 500th EWM production implementation is another milestone in the success story of SAP EWM general contractor IGZ, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019. Back in 2007, IGZ was the first company in the world to successfully go live with SAP EWM including SAP MFS in conjunction with an automated high-bay warehouse at esco - european salt company, a subsidiary of the K+S Group. Today, IGZ employs almost 250 SAP EWM, SAP MFS and SAP TM (Transportation Management) experts in the SAP Warehousing environment.

The next task at Hawle is to introduce the standard software in the new production supply warehouse in Frankenmarkt. This offers end-to-end process support from goods receipt to dispatch and enables paperless, mobile order processing. Proprietary systems are no longer required, as SAP EWM already has an integrated material flow control system with the SAP MFS (Material Flow System) component and can be integrated directly into the customer's SAP world.

In order to provide Hawle with certainty with regard to budgeting, project duration and the suitability of the implementation concept, IGZ carried out a deployment analysis prior to the commissioning. In the course of this analysis, the announced costs and deadlines as well as the real added value to be achieved in the operational business were also confirmed from a business management perspective. The new SAP EWM/MFS-controlled automated warehouse is scheduled to go live in the first half of 2021.