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SAP EWM education and architecture advisory for a North American cleaning equipment manufacturer

A North American Cleaning Equipment Manufacturer Delivered 2025

Mindset ran a focused SAP EWM strategic advisory for a North American cleaning equipment manufacturer, delivering education, co-designed options, and written recommendations that positioned the company to move confidently into a full EWM build.

By the numbers

  • 1 facility

    Colorado distribution site advised and ready for EWM build

  • 15 hours

    Principal-level EWM advisory, fully remote, zero system access required

  • 1 follow-on

    SAP BTP engagement initiated after advisory completion

Before

EWM interest, but no internal direction

  • Facility team understood the warehouse need but had not validated an EWM approach.
  • No internal SAP EWM expertise to evaluate options or design the right solution.
  • Not ready to commit to a full implementation without education and a written recommendation first.

After

A documented path into EWM

  • EWM education delivered across all priority subjects, tailored to the facility.
  • Written recommendations document in hand for the Aurora, Colorado plant.
  • Follow-on SAP BTP engagement initiated, extending the advisory into platform work.

Why this matters

A manufacturing company that did the right thing before committing to a build: brought in an expert for education and written recommendations first. The advisory-to-implementation pattern, short and sharp, then confident next step.

The challenge

The manufacturer needed to build internal SAP EWM knowledge before committing to a larger implementation at its Aurora, Colorado distribution facility. Its team understood the business need but wanted to co-design their options with an expert, get a clear view of the trade-offs, and receive written recommendations they could act on, not just a vendor pitch for a build.

A lightweight, remote engagement was the right first move. The company provided all input electronically, and no system access was required.

What we did

Mindset ran a short SAP EWM strategic advisory from April through June 2025, led by a principal EWM consultant. The scope was deliberate: educate the team on Extended Warehouse Management, work through the subjects of interest together in structured working sessions, document the options, and deliver a written EWM Recommendations document the client could use as the blueprint for next steps.

The engagement was scoped as a time-and-materials advisory, roughly 15 hours of principal-level effort, kept tight and remote by design. No access to client systems was needed. Everything ran on electronically provided inputs, which kept the work moving without the overhead of a longer discovery phase.

The outcomes

The company received a complete EWM recommendations document and the education materials from the working sessions. The advisory gave the internal team a grounded view of their options and a clear, prioritized path into a future EWM implementation.

Following the advisory, the relationship expanded into SAP BTP work at the same facility, signaling that the education-first approach built the confidence needed to move forward with a strategic platform investment.

If we built this today

Concept · not delivered scope

EWM advisory, now an agent on day one.

This is a forward-looking concept, not the scope we delivered on this engagement. It is the build we would reach for now, grounded in SAP that ships today.

This manufacturer wanted to learn Extended Warehouse Management and co-design the right approach for its Colorado distribution plant before committing to a build, so the question worth asking today is what an EWM warehouse running with Joule agents would actually look like.

The data product

Cloud ERP Intelligence

Grounds the agent in real warehouse and logistics movement from S/4HANA and EWM, so its proposals reflect actual throughput, bin utilization, and labor patterns rather than a static rulebook. It runs against the customer system with no data copy.

Intelligent Application on SAP Business Data Cloud

The Joule agent

EWM Warehouse Order Agent

Reads open warehouse orders, tasks, and resource availability in SAP EWM and proposes the next-best putaway, picking, and replenishment moves when a task stalls or a bin runs short. A human warehouse lead approves before anything is released to the floor.

SAP EWM, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP · PROPOSE · Warehouse order cycle time and on-time task completion

The Fiori app

The EWM warehouse-monitoring Fiori apps with Joule embedded

The EWM monitoring and warehouse-task apps with Joule sitting in the launchpad, so a supervisor can ask about a blocked order or a delayed wave and get a grounded answer instead of digging through the monitor tree. This is the category an EWM team already lives in.

Embedded in the Fiori launchpad

The honest first step is the same one we ran here: mine the warehouse process in SAP Signavio, map the EWM and BTP landscape in SAP LeanIX, and let MIND accelerators carry the old design into the new one.

The Joule Agent Factory Process intelligence

What we built

  • Covered all priority EWM subjects identified at engagement start

    EWM working sessions and education

    Structured working presentations on the SAP EWM topics most relevant to the facility, co-designed with the client team to focus on their actual questions.

  • Delivered as the primary advisory output

    EWM Recommendations document

    A written, actionable recommendations document outlining the preferred approach for Extended Warehouse Management at the Aurora, Colorado plant.

  • Gave leadership a clear basis for next-step commitment

    Architecture options analysis

    Assessment of the EWM configuration and deployment options relevant to the facility, with trade-off analysis to support the client's decision.

  • Led to a follow-on SAP BTP engagement at the same site

    Platform expansion advisory

    The advisory established the context for follow-on SAP BTP work, positioning BTP as the strategic platform layer alongside EWM.