Overview of Functional Differences between the different SAP EWM Products and Deployment Options

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Co-Authored by: Jörg Michaelis

 

The following document contains functional differences between the different SAP EWM deployment options. The information is based on the release of SAP S/4HANA 1809 FPS02 in May 2019 and the latest EWM business suite release SAP EWM 9.5.

 

The intention of the overview is to provide customers, partners and consultants a guidance to select the right deployment option for the customer projects. Therefore, this document shows major function/feature differences from business perspective, instead of technical details of the single deployment option/production version. For more technical information, please always refer to the respective release note of each product version, for example, SAP Note 2775345 with the release and restriction information of Decentralized EWM on SAP S/4HANA 1809FPS2, and SAP Note 2668150 for embedded EWM on SAP S/4HANA 1809, etc.. In addition SAP recommends to check the SAP Note 1606493 „SAP EWM Deployment Options Best Practices“. In general SAP recommends to start new projects only on the SAP S/4HANA stack as this is the future platform for Extended Warehouse Management and is planned to receive innovations with future releases.

 

The table below contains only entries with known differences. Features which are identical between the deployment options are not listed.

 

The overview doesn’t include differences between SAP Extended Warehouse Management and WM. The overview doesn’t include a delta comparison between different SAP S/4HANA releases or between different business suite releases. In general, new functions developed with SAP S/4HANA1809 and above are not supported by the business suite release (e.g., EWM9.5), and not listed unless there’s a difference between the embedded and decentralized EWM based on SAP S/4HANA. Therefore the „what‘s new documents“ are recommended.

 

The next update of this document is planned to be published in September 2019 with the planned release of SAP S/4HANA 1909.

 

Feature		EWM embedded in S/4HANA	Decentralized EWM based on SAP S/4HANA	EWM 9.5
Inbound Processing
Returns processing (customer returns & returns in distributed networks) without using Advanced Returns Management		Not supported, planned with a future release	Supported	Supported
Fiori App E-Commerce Returns (planned and Unplanned customer returns)		Not supported, planned with a future release	Planned with 1909	Supported
Outbound Processing
EWM Freight Order Management (FOM)		Not supported, not strategic, while Transportation Unit is available; Use of SAP TM is recommended for comprehensive transportation functionality	Not supported, not strategic, while Transportation Unit is available; Use of SAP TM is recommended for comprehensive transportation functionality	Supported
EWM Routing Guide and all the related EWM functions, with below examples *1 *2, *3, *4		Not supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
*1	Simulation Tool on Route Determination	Not supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
*2	Transportation Cross Docking	Not supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
*3	Delivery scheduling using EWM Routing guide	Not supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
*4	Automatic delivery splits in case of different routes	Not supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
SAP AR Warehouse Picker		Not Supported; Planned with a future release with lower priority	Not Supported; Planned with a future release with lower priority	Supported
Master Data
Maintain EWM warehouse attributes in the central Fiori app “Manage Product Master Data”		Supported	Supported	Not supported
Receive ERP Packing instructions as SCM Packaging Specifications		Planned with 1909	Planned with 1909	Supported
Batch Master Maintenance in EWM		Supported	Supported via creation of new batches in EWM inbound delivery Transactions/APPs. [1]	Supported
Support batch level “batch on plant“		Supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
Support batch level “global batch”		Supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
Cross Topics
Labor Demand Planning		Currently not supported, planned with a future release after conversion to Fiori App and technical backend change	Currently not supported, planned with a future release after conversion to Fiori App and technical backend change	Supported
Transit Warehousing		Supported	Supported Please refer to note 2808265 for details	Supported
Warehouse Billing		Supported, with the following conditions: 1)      Business Suite TM – TM9.3 and above; 2)      TM in S/4HANA – 1809 and above	Planned with 1909, with the following conditions: 1)      Business Suite TM – TM9.3 and above; 2)      TM in S/4HANA – 1809 and above	Supported, with the following conditions: 1)      Business Suite TM – TM9.3 and above; 2)      TM in S/4HANA – 1809 and above
UI5 App to support carrier access for maintaining dock appointments DAS		Not supported, planned to offer a native Fiori app in a future release	Not supported, planned to offer a native Fiori app in a future release	Supported
Re-use ERP delivery number in EWM delivery request objects		Supported	Planned with 1909	Not supported
Quality Inspection Engine (QIE) for quality management processes with ERP QM integration, as well as standalone quality inspection processes without ERP QM integration [2]		Not Applicable	Supported (with restriction *5, *6, *7, *8, *9)	Supported
*5	QIE Standalone Processes: Preliminary inbound delivery inspections (QIE IOT 1)	Not Applicable	Not supported, not strategic	Supported
*6	With ERP QM Integration: Automatic creation of separate warehouse tasks to move sample quantity to an inspection area	Not Applicable	Currently not supported, planned with a future release. For now such movement tasks for sample quantities can be created manually	Supported
*7	With ERP QM Integration: QIE Document Attachments (e.g. inspection rule, inspection document)	Not Applicable	Not supported, not strategic	Supported
*8	With ERP QM Integration: Non-100 % inspection procedure	Not Applicable	Not supported, not strategic	Supported
*9	With ERP QM Integration: Dynamic Modification in the QIE inspection rule	Not Applicable	Not supported, not strategic	Supported
With ERP QM Integration: Automatic Master Data Synchronization to control QM Processes		Not Applicable	Planned with 1909	Not Supported
QM Activation Without Using Inspection Rules		Planned with 1909	Not Supported	Not Supported
QM: Support Inspection Lots “01” and “04” with Inspection Origin “17”		Planned with 1909	Not Supported	Not Supported
HANA Live & Smart Business		Comparable functions provided with CDS views. Currently available is the EWM ODO only, with 1909 WT / WO are planned. Inbound deliveries and wave items are planned with a future release.	Comparable functions provided with CDS views. Currently available is the EWM ODO only, with 1909 WT / WO are planned. Inbound deliveries and wave items are planned with a future release.	Supported
Integration with SAP ME for goods receipt from production, components staging and consumption		Supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
Integration with SAP ERP Discrete Industry Mill Product (DIMP) system with active long material number		Supported	Planned with 1909	Supported
SAP EWM for Fashion (Add-on of EWM for fashion industry to integrate with an SAP ERP-AFS system)		Not Applicable	Not Supported; Project specific approach necessary	Supported
Deployment
Connect a single warehouse to multiple SAP ERP systems with harmonized master data		Not Applicable	Planned with 1909 FPS1 (2020/Q1)	Supported
Connect to an SAP ERP (ECC) and S/4HANA as ERP		Not Applicable	Supported	Supported
Connect to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition		Not Applicable	Currently not supported, planned with a future release	Supported
EWM Implementation Tool (Tool provided for the guided procedure of setting up ERP Integration and the preconfigured warehouse W001)		Not Applicable	Currently not supported, planned with a future release	Supported
Preconfigured Warehouse (W001)		Not Applicable – Best Practice content is provided instead	Currently not supported, planned with a future release	Supported
Best Practice Content		Supported	Currently not supported, planned with a future release	RDS (best practice) content available with SAP EWM9.3. and can be referred to by SAP EWM9.5 for manual configuration only

QM: Recording an inspection decision in RF

Not Supported

Supported

Supported

 

 

[1] The creation of local batches by using the batch master transaction/APPs is not supported as the batches are not replicated to the connected ERP system. If you create the batch in EWM inbound delivery transaction/APPs, the batches will be replicated back to the connected ERP system.

[2] For more information about QIE and the supported quality management processes, please access the SAP EWM Help Portal.