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SAP EWM project strategy · global programmes, local delivery

Get the project right before delivery begins.

International SAP EWM programmes are signed off in head office and lost on the local floor, where a template designed offshore meets an operation nobody briefed it on. Luminar is the local specialist that global manufacturers and distributors bring in to get the project position right across their Australian and APAC sites. Not every engagement starts from the same place. Our role is to shape it correctly from the beginning, so the delivery model, scope, risks, operational priorities and warehouse outcomes are clear.

Go-live hypercare on a warehouse floor: a consultant and an operator at a wall-mounted RF terminal beside racking, pallets staged behind.
Project strategy Align the system design with the warehouse reality
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01  Project positionsFour ways a project can start
02  The shaping workWhat project strategy covers
Before delivery

The expensive mistakes are made in the first few weeks.

Independent · no build to sell you

Whether you are a global programme owner whose template is heading for an Australian or APAC site, or an Australian operation about to go to market, the project is won or lost before delivery starts. Most enterprises, and most government buyers, do not have anyone who owns the recipe for kicking it off. We are that independent voice, in the room, with no build to sell you at the end.

Independent board-level advisory

We sit with the executive and help formulate the strategy around your supply chain execution: the operating model, the case for change, and the sequence that actually fits your operation rather than the one that suits a vendor's bench.

Market and integrator scan

An objective scan of the integrators and SAP partners you would otherwise choose blind. We know how the global firms staff these programmes, where the senior team disappears after the pitch, and how to separate the firms that live on the warehouse floor from the firms that live in the slide deck.

RFP shaping and scoring

Most SAP EWM RFPs fail before they are issued, because they are written around features rather than the floor. We shape the RFP, and the scoring behind it, around operator outcomes, local readiness and the questions that expose a generalist, so you are comparing firms on what will actually land the rollout.

Deployment approach and quality gates

Standing the project up: the deployment model, a requirements baseline grounded in how the floor runs, and the phases and quality gates that keep it honest. The team that delivers it, ours or someone else's, starts from a real plan rather than a blank page.

Readiness and operational risk

An honest readiness view, with the operational risks named up front: master data, hardware, local team capability, and the gap between the global template and the local operation. We will tell you what to fix before you go to market or hand the template to a generalist, while it is still cheap to fix.

The processes may be fixed. The floor is not.

SAP EWM project strategy is where we align the system design with the warehouse reality, before cost, time and operational risk are locked into delivery. It is the same standard of senior EWM judgement your head office expects, delivered in your time zone, on your floor.

03  Where are you?Greenfield or brownfield

Not sure which position you are in?

Plenty of enterprises run a billion dollars of inventory and still mistake inventory management for a warehouse management system. The symptoms below usually mean a real WMS conversation is overdue. One day on your floor and we will tell you which position you are in, and what it would take.

  • Stock reconciliation takes weeks, and never quite reconciles
  • You know you hold the quantity, but not how old it is or what rotates
  • SAP ERP is in place, but the floor runs on spreadsheets and workarounds
  • DIFOT, stock visibility and damage are slipping as you grow
  • A global template is heading for your Australian site
Start here

One day on your floor, then we both know.

The Luminar Floor Audit is the cleanest starting point. A senior consultant, a day with your operations, and a plain-language findings memo inside five working days. Complimentary, no proposal attached.