Part of the Rocket Digital Command Centre Toolset - increasing project success rates by transforming customer decision making with fast visual insights throughout the project lifecycle.
Developing a business case for a digital supply chain or warehouse management project is often not a simple undertaking.
Making the right platform selection is an essential part of the project business case, ensuring alignments across strategic business, IT, operations objectives, as well as key functional requirements.
The Rocket SAP Warehouse Management System (WMS) assessment tool provides IT and supply chain leaders with a method to rapidly align the WMS platform capability with their specific needs. Providing transparent results with detailed visual insights that helps create robust reporting to engage and influence key stakeholders in support of the project.
Rocket have helped hundreds of businesses over the past decade to make confident, informed decisions based on impartial assessment of their key requirements and transparent information showing the impact of each on the assessment outcome, supporting fast cost/benefit analysis.
This tool typically takes 10 minutes to complete, with 29 simple questions grouped by process areas (Inbound -> Internal -> General -> Outbound -> Technology) to answer that assess your requirements against the capability of the 4 different SAP WMS platforms available:
SAP Warehouse Management
SAP Stock Room Management
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (Basic)
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (Advanced)
You will gain a suitability rating for your business of each platform, helping you select the most appropriate solution for your business.
The Rocket WMS selection logic framework ensures platform matches are delivered against your business need, not on the most advanced platform available, providing you with a level of transparency that will enable you to make informed changes, alterations and budget decisions according to your best fit strategic need.
Register today to access the premium features that will provide you with valuable additional decision-making tools and content, such as the detail requirements analysis.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Little forward planning of receipt into the warehouse, based on purchase order.
More detailed planning, for example with the use of ASN (Advanced Shipping Notification) via EDI.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Simple receipt of overall quantity of stock, often paper-based.
Entry of information and quantity on a per handling unit (pallet/case) basis. May include capture of expiry and batch information, often mobile-based.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Mixed pallets are taken to a separate area for splitting into corresponding homogeneous product handling units before putaway can be completed. Typically mobile execution.
More complex scenarios include multiple combinations of different handling units (cases, layers, eaches).
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Use of opportunistic cross-docking where (if an applicable open outbound delivery can be found) the goods are not putaway but, for example, taken directly to the outbound staging area.
Use of additional cross docking techniques, such as planned cross docking, transportation cross docking or, where bespoke decision processing is required, to determine whether a cross dock is possible, for example consideration of expiry dates (stringent FIFO).
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Entire inbound delivery document is simply set to unloading status for reporting purposes only.
Unloading executed and tracked for individual handling unit (pallets/cases). Mobile execution with one or multiple resources to unload simultaneously.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Simple counting of quantity, typically carried out with fixed periodicity, often paper-based or simple mobile count.
Includes more sophisticated counting such as perpetual inventory and ABC analysis, or use of low stock count during picking operations. Typically mobile execution.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Simple periodic administration process to write off stock from inventory. Often done as a standalone process to balance inventory in isolation from warehouse processes.
Scrapping processes linked into the warehouse process with adjustment reason codes. Process triggered stock movements and/or paperwork. Scrapping process to manage inventory to be scrapped, use of scrapping areas and determination of scrap inventory location. Product scrapping for quantity rules (full or partial, retain quantity).
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Receipt of stock against a production order as a back office process for an entire production order.
Execution of raw material movements to production area, and receipt from production of individual handling units (pallet/case), supported by mobile execution.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Basic warehouse elements such as bins and storage area in the warehouse.
Use of more sophisticated relationship rules to support picking processes, such as pick, pack and pass, near pick face placement, value added service areas and routing controls. Use of staging areas, doors and yard layout. Use of XYZ coordinates to map warehouse for activity optimisation.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
2D display of warehouse layout to facilitate warehouse set-up & validation of coordinates.
Real-time display of warehouse situation, including display of current location of resources. Use of 3D to display warehouse situation. Integration with automation for displaying error situations or alerts.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Pallet and cases, each labelled with unique Handling Unit ID.
Use of SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code). Nesting of handling units, e.g. unique cases packed within a pallet.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Simple location and status management of stock in quality inspection, only with QI actions managed off-system or within ERP only.
Management and mobile execution of quality issues, with automatic triggering of subsequent processing and inventory usage decisions.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
List-based reporting and warehouse activity monitoring, e.g. display of stock levels, inbound deliveries/outbound deliveries.
Visual reporting with insight and key performance indicators and drill down analysis.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Activity queue-based work allocation, e.g. inbound, replenishment, outbound, based on type of work.
Optimised work allocation based on rules and physical factors such as travel distance calculations on number of resources in an aisle.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Flow through of pallets as a classic warehouse receipt, and re-pick operation only.
Receiving shipping cargo as part of a longer transportation chain. The cargo is not destined for the transit warehouse and is not unpacked or put away in the warehouse as stock. Instead, cargo is received and stored until it is required for transportation to the next stop in the transportation chain.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Summary reporting of work carried out at a quantity level without any labour planning.
Planning of labour requirement times and resources in a warehouse more effectively. Measure, plan, simulate, and visualise the labour activities in your warehouse. Comparison of resource performance engineered labour standards. Drive incentives such as bonus payments using a connected HR system.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Tracking of vehicle site entry and exit.
Management of yard assets such as trailers, parking spaces, loading bays with mobile execution of vehicle movement.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Manual allocation of orders into a wave for picking.
Automation of orders into waves according to expected despatch times. Consideration of limits such as expected pick duration or simple metrics such as weight or volume.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Kit to order where components pieces may need to be despatched together.
Additional kit to stock where planning/processing is instigated on WM without need for production order process in ERP. Reverse kitting to de-kit components to stock.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Reporting of warehouse activities for billing activities carried out outside WMS.
Contract and billing models to calculate service costs for warehouse operation based on use of space and operational time.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Planning of vehicle appointments carried out by own staff through manual appointment entry.
Appointment portal allowing collaboration with suppliers / logistics service providers to book appointment slots.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Manual triggering of post-goods issue for a shipment/transport unit or delivery.
Printing of custom paperwork or customs checks. Use of invoice before goods issue functionality to trigger printing of invoice from ERP.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Manual update of loading status for entire delivery, for reporting purposes only.
Loading of handling units into vehicle through mobile execution, multiple operators loading single delivery.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Packing with volumetric data only to provide simple cubing logic.
Pre-planning of how goods will be picked into HUs for loading. Integration with TM allows TM to pass planned HU information to EWM for picking.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Automatic determination of VAS requirements and picking via VAS area with summary confirmation of completion.
Mobile workstation execution of all activities, capture of time and/or consumables, outputs and labelling.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Planning of deliveries for despatch with manual allocation of deliveries to a vehicle.
Automated planning processes and integration with transportation management system.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Customer returns follow similar process to normal inbound process and putaway.
Inspection and grading of stock, entry of reason codes. Mobile support for returns process. Often dedicated processing area returns area.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Automation treated as "black box" with interfaces for movements and confirmations to separate warehouse control system.
Real-time process and technical integration with automation logic residing in material flow system within the WMS, with full visibility of inventory, activities and all business logic.
On a scale of 0 - 3, how important is the following functional requirement to your warehouse management system?
Primarily warehouse activity execution with generic screens across handheld and/or vehicle mounted devices using barcode scanning.
Optimised mobile execution with improved user experience, use of voice and RFID.