Gries Deco Company
Customer: Gries Deco Company
Project duration: 9 months
Our customer:
Gries Deco Company, headquartered in Niedernberg am Main, is a steadily growing company in the retail sector. With approximately 7,700 employees (as of 2019) and over 400 stores in the D-A-CH region, Gries Deco Company generates annual sales of around 408 million euros. The product range includes home accessories, furniture, gift and decorative items and room fragrances.
Initial situation:
In recent years, the Gries Deco Company has decided to create a digital supply chain solution that consolidates goods movements across free trade borders and thus ensures full control over the relevant value creation steps. The distribution center for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which has been digitized on a large scale, represents an elementary pivotal point in this process. A cross-border cloud solution is to be used to reduce both inventories and operating costs and to make the flow of materials transparent. In this context, the existing warehouse management system SAP® WM is to be replaced by SAP® EWM. In the future, the supply of the stores in Switzerland will be handled by an EWM-managed warehouse in Germany (insourcing).
What did HPC do?
New implementation of SAP® EWM including connection of an existing Dambach automatic warehouse:
- Development of an EWM implementation concept
- Installing EWM 9.4
- Setup of an EWM prototype
- Complete customizing to map all processes
- Connection of the automated warehouse directly in SAP® EWM with integrated MFS
- Developments for the implementation of customer-specific requirements.
- Inventory management and picking in alternative units of measure (cartons, handling and controls of action picking on a weekly basis).
- Use of plan-pick HUs, pick HUs and inter-floor picking
- Customer's own inventory tracking for customs clearance
- Customization of standard EWM RF transactions on the mobile devices with Mobisys as a more user-friendly interface.
- Execution of functional and integration tests
- Creation of a migration concept and execution of migration tests
- Knowledge transfer to Gries Deco employees
- Conducting trainings and creating documentation
- Cut-over and go-live support
- Go-Live support
- After-Go-Live support
- Optimization phase for the implementation of small process improvements
Customer benefits:
- Use of the standard SAP® EWM software with use of the MFS component
- Customized processes with very low error rates
- Cost savings by supplying the stores from our own warehouse instead of via external service providers
- Customs warehouse
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