AZentron Solutions provides project management for WMS implementations from the business perspective – for WMS, TMS and SAP projects, from requirements to a stable go-live, without putting ongoing warehouse operations at risk.
System projects in logistics rarely fail because of the software. They fail when processes are not clearly described, the business departments are overloaded alongside day-to-day operations, and IT and operations talk past each other. The result is delays, rising costs and, in the worst case, a go-live that jeopardises your ability to deliver.
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✓ Business Coordinator and Deployment Lead in a corporate group for five national organisations
✓ Manhattan WMS · SAP S/4HANA · SAP TM
✓ International digitalisation programmes
✓ The project is delayed, milestones keep slipping.
✓ The business department is overloaded with day-to-day work and cannot adequately support requirements and testing.
✓ Go-live is approaching – and nobody is sure whether the warehouse and shipping will work on day one.
✓ An existing system is to be rolled out to further sites or countries.
I derive the requirements from your operational processes – from goods receipt to shipping – and align them with the business departments, IT and implementation partners. The result is a warehouse management system that fits your warehouse, rather than a warehouse that has to adapt to the software. At the same time I make sure that ERP, WMS and TMS work together seamlessly.
A good WMS specification describes your processes, volumes and special cases so concretely that vendors can submit comparable proposals. The key selection criteria are:
✓ Coverage of your core processes without costly custom development
✓ Integration with ERP, TMS and warehouse technology
✓ Scalability for growth, additional sites and countries
✓ The implementation partner’s experience in comparable projects
✓ Total cost over the service life, including operation and further development
Together with the business departments we describe target processes, KPIs and interfaces. The specification is the basis for selection, contract and acceptance.
I prepare the vendor selection, evaluate proposals and presentations and support the contract negotiations.
Integration tests fully cover processes and interfaces. WMS data migration is planned early and rehearsed several times – master data, storage locations and stock levels must be correct on the cut-off date. The same applies to a TMS implementation.
A clear cut-over plan, fallback scenarios, trained teams and a closely managed hypercare phase ensure that goods receipt, picking and shipping work from day one.
A successful pilot becomes the blueprint: a template with local adaptations, coordinated roll-out waves and lessons learned from each go-live make further sites and countries plannable.
In international digitalisation programmes I worked as Business Coordinator and Deployment Lead in a corporate group for five national organisations.
Implementation and roll-out
Logistics processes and integration
Transport management
Anyone building new or automating should consider the software from the very beginning. Warehouse technology, material flow controller and WMS have to be aligned – otherwise costly interface problems arise.
In the initial call we clarify where your project stands and where I can help.
Phone +43 676 48 40 772 · [email protected]
Process coverage, integration capability, scalability, the implementation partner’s experience and the total cost over the service life.
Target processes from goods receipt to shipping, volume structures, special cases, interfaces to ERP, TMS and warehouse technology, KPIs and requirements for operation and support.
With complete integration tests, rehearsed data migration, a detailed cut-over plan, fallback scenarios and an on-site supported start-up phase.
After a pilot site, a template is defined. Local specifics are added selectively and roll-outs take place in planned waves.
That depends on your system landscape, your processes and your warehouse technology. What matters is a comparison based on a neutral specification, not a preference for a particular system.
