Logistics IT · Selection · Rollout
WMS and SAP EWM consulting — selected cleanly, implemented safely.
Advanum covers the whole system project: system strategy, requirements and functional specification, tendering (RFI/RFP), vendor selection, implementation, migration, go-live and stabilization. Software is neither sold nor implemented here, so the recommendation follows your requirements and not a license interest.
Services for WMS and SAP EWM projects
WMS and SAP EWM strategy
Which system landscape fits your business model, your logistics and your IT strategy — including cloud, integration, automation and rollout capability. The question is settled before a shortlist exists, so the selection starts from a target picture instead of from a vendor list.
Requirements and functional specification
Processes, volumes, special cases and steering requirements become a functional baseline that carries tendering and solution design. Requirements are written to be testable rather than to be impressive, so an offer can be checked against them later.
Tendering (RFI/RFP) and vendor selection
Advanum structures RFI and RFP, evaluates vendors and solutions against one consistent model and moderates demos and workshops with focus. The evaluation model comes from your requirements, so the comparison stays objective when the presentations get impressive.
Solution design review
A review of whether the planned solution design meets the functional requirements — and whether it holds under real operating conditions. Process fit, master data, interfaces and the volume structure are checked before the project reaches the phase where corrections become expensive.
Implementation, migration and rollout
Support for planning, governance, testing, cutover and rollout — including the steering of implementation partners, for a single site or a multi-site rollout program. Test scope, data migration and training are planned for what the site can absorb, not for what the schedule would like.
Go-live and stabilization
Steering, KPIs, escalation paths and measures are set up so that processes and system performance stabilize quickly — through hypercare into normal operations. Performance is steered daily or weekly until your own team carries it.
Why WMS and SAP EWM projects get difficult
A new system alone does not improve logistics. What decides the outcome are clear processes, testable requirements, a fitting architecture and an implementation that operations, IT and the vendor can carry together. Five patterns show up in almost every project that goes off track.
- Requirements stay too generic — or are shaped too strongly by today's system.
- Operations, IT and vendors judge the same solution from different perspectives.
- Processes and master data are not prepared far enough before the project starts.
- Timeline, resources and test scope are planned more optimistically than any site can deliver.
- Go-live and stabilization receive the least attention and the least time.
Vendor-neutral. On your side.
Advanum sells no software, implements none and takes no license or referral revenue. That independence makes an objective view of requirements, vendors and solution options possible — and it means a recommendation can also be to keep the existing system and fix the processes around it.
What a WMS or SAP EWM mandate delivers
- A system strategy and a decision logic that is still traceable long after the decision was taken.
- Requirements that are complete, prioritized and individually testable — including volume structure and special cases.
- An objective comparison of vendors and solutions against one shared evaluation model.
- Transparent risks, clear responsibilities and decisions that are documented where they were taken.
- A project, test and cutover plan that reflects test scope and data migration realistically.
- The transition into normal operations, steered until your own team carries it.
Questions about WMS and SAP EWM consulting
The WMS selection should start as soon as the functional target picture and the key requirements can be clarified. Early structure reduces later changes, cost and delay — and it prevents the system from deciding the processes.
Yes. Advanum advises vendor-neutrally on classic WMS solutions, on SAP EWM and on adjacent logistics IT systems such as transport or automation control.
The functional requirements baseline, the volume structure, the evaluation model and the documents for RFI and RFP are developed by Advanum — written so that offers can be compared against them.
Vendors and solutions are evaluated against one consistent model derived from your requirements. Demos and workshops are moderated with focus, and the outcome is a decision paper that management can follow without being in the room.
Running projects are reviewed, governance and planning are sharpened where needed, and the critical phases are steered through go-live and stabilization.
No. Implementation stays with the selected vendor or partner. Advanum advises and steers on your side of the table — with clear interfaces and a working relationship with the implementer.
Let's look at your system decision.
Whether the selection is still open, the functional specification is being written or the rollout is already running: the intro call clarifies where you stand and what the sensible next step is. Confidential and without obligation.
If the functional target picture is still missing: supply chain and logistics consulting →
When the rollout has lost control: project management and interim management →