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Overview of Functional Differences between the different SAP EWM Products and Deployment Options
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 | ||||
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Returns processing (customer returns & returns in distributed networks) without using Advanced Returns Management
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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
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Currently not supported, planned with a future release after conversion to Fiori App and technical backend change
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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 |
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| 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 | |
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QM: Recording an inspection decision in RF
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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.
Hi Emma,
Very informative... Thanks for sharing the information.
Regards
Santhosh
Perfect detail Emma
Very good information.
Just what I was looking for. Thank you Emma!
Hi Emma,
you mentioned in the text above the comparision table
The next update of this document is planned to be published in September 2019 with the planned release of SAP S/4HANA 1909.
When do you think to update the table with S/4HANA 1909 information?
Regards
Jörg
Please check the attachment of the SAP note 2840129
nice overview, thanks!
Hi ,
Where can we download S4HANA EWM presentation?
Any public link available?
Please advice.
Thanks for the informative Post Emma.
Just wondering, if you would you be able to share more details on Fiori apps available for decentralized EWM connected to ECC?
Thanks, Pratik
Very good content Emma!, I was just looking for a very specific supported functionality and found it in here!. thanks!.
Hello,
SAP EWM 9.3 version 9.4 version What's the difference?
Best Regards,
Kenji Eimura
Hi,
this is all described here: https://help.sap.com/saphelp_ewm94/helpdata/en/c0/aee25620dc122fe10000000a441470/frameset.htm
Standard documentation, "what's new" section.
Brgds
Juergen
Hello! Is there something like this for TM? I am researching the advantages and disadvantages of SAP TM, especially for S/4 HANA cloud? Thank you 🙂
Dears,
I would like to know what the differences are between 2017 Version and QM 2021 Version in SAP Quality Mangement?
Can anyone help me to know the differences?