The customer orders – and expects fast delivery. This has become the rule. But a lot of time is often lost in the warehouse. Whether through manual processes that take considerably longer than automated processes and also lead to significantly more errors. Or through media discontinuities due to different systems used in daily operations. And last but not least, due to long distances.

How does it often still look in practice? First of all, the warehouse employee goes to the office, where he picks up huge amounts of slips of paper for picking. Then he goes back to the warehouse and starts picking the goods. And as soon as all the papers have been processed, he brings them back to the office – often not until the end of the day. The responsible employee in the office now starts to manually enter the data in the SAP system.