From the office, a struggling warehouse looks like a system problem. From the floor it looks like a process problem. Usually it is both, and the fix sits where they meet: how goods are received, put away, picked, packed and loaded, and the SAP EWM configuration that has to run all of it. Luminar works in that gap, with senior consultants on your floor and no software or licences to sell.
SAP EWM only · senior consultants · on site
What the job is. A warehouse management consultant is brought in when the way a warehouse runs and the way its system thinks it runs have drifted apart, or are about to be designed for the first time. The work is part operations and part configuration: watching a shift, mapping where stock and labour actually go, then shaping the warehouse management system around that rather than around a vendor's demo.
Where we draw the line. We work only on SAP Extended Warehouse Management. If your warehouse runs on SAP ERP or S/4HANA, or is about to, we are the right call. If it runs on something else, we will tell you, and where we can, who to call instead.
We are not racking engineers or architects, and we do not replace them. We do not take on non-EWM SAP modules, lead multi-vendor programme management, deliver from offshore, or staff junior consultants on your floor.
None of these is a software fault on its own. Together they usually mean the floor and the system have stopped describing the same warehouse, and the gap gets paid for in labour every shift. One day on your floor and we will tell you which position you are in, and what it would take.
Finds where the warehouse and its system disagree, and closes the gap. In practice that means time on the floor with supervisors and operators, a map of how receiving, putaway, picking, packing and loading really run, and then the scope, process design and configuration decisions that follow from it. For a new site the same work happens on a drawing, before the slab is poured.
Not as the racking engineer or architect, and we do not replace them. We sit beside the distribution centre design team as the warehouse execution voice, making sure the dock doors, staging lanes, pick faces, printer and charging points, RF coverage and any automation match how the site will actually run in SAP EWM, while those decisions are still on a drawing and cheap to change.
Go deeper · Designing a new DC with EWM in the room
Yes. SAP Extended Warehouse Management is all we do, and we do not take on other SAP modules. If your warehouse is not on SAP and is not heading there, we will tell you honestly, and point you to someone better placed where we can.
No. We sell no SAP licences and no software, so the advice on what to buy comes from the floor. That includes whether you need advanced EWM at all, because basic warehouse management already sits in the S/4HANA core.
Go deeper · Basic or advanced EWM
Senior consultants only. We do not staff junior consultants on your warehouse floor and we do not deliver from offshore. A senior consultant stays on the floor through go-live and hypercare.
Interview them about the floor, not the slide deck. Ask who will actually be on site, what they would leave standard, and how they handle a cutover that slips. We have written the questions down, and we can run the integrator scan with you.
Go deeper · How to interview an SAP EWM integrator
Usually with the Floor Audit: one day on your floor with a senior consultant, and a plain-language findings memo inside five working days. It is complimentary and has no proposal attached. What comes after depends on the position you are in. For the project itself, we have set out where the money actually goes.
Go deeper · The Floor Audit · What an SAP EWM rollout really costs
Across Australia and APAC, on site and in your time zone. That includes global programmes whose template is landing on an Australian or APAC floor, where the local view is usually the one missing.
The Luminar Floor Audit: a senior consultant, a day with your operations, and a plain-language findings memo inside five working days. Complimentary, with no proposal attached.