Project overview
A pharmaceutical distributor needed a more disciplined outbound model for multiple daily dispatch waves. The business pressure was high: lot control had to remain strict, but service speed could not slow down.
Challenges
- Wave creation was only partially automated
- Warehouse task stability lagged behind dispatch readiness
- High service expectations left very little tolerance for rework
SAP EWM solution design
Qventra designed a route-oriented SAP EWM outbound process with wave management, RF validation, staging by departure logic, and WOCR-based workload balancing. The emphasis was on predictable execution rather than firefighting.
Key outcomes
Indicative gains include 30% to 40% shorter dispatch time, inventory accuracy trending toward 99.9%, and better space usage through disciplined staging. SAP’s public Mankind Pharma story reports comparable results after EWM and TM transformation.
Next steps
Next, the warehouse could add value-added packing and structured returns processing.