Designing SAP EWM for Speed, Scale, and Multi-Customer Operations. Linfox operates one of the largest SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) landscapes in the Southern Hemisphere, supporting close to 40 warehouses across a highly complex, multi-customer third-party logistics environment.

In this session, Linfox shares how it deliberately designed SAP EWM as a standalone warehouse platform—decoupled from ERP and supported by an enterprise integration layer—to enable faster, more repeatable rollouts while reducing complexity and cost.

The presentation explores how Linfox enables true multi-customer operations within a single site, including co-located inventory and bin-level ownership, and how these design decisions support both operational efficiency today and long-term planning for S/4HANA.

This is a practical, end-user perspective on running EWM at scale and making architectural choices that work in the real world.

Key Takeaways:

• How to design SAP EWM as a standalone platform to support rapid warehouse rollout and reduce dependency on tightly coupled ERP landscapes
• What it takes to run true multi-customer, multi-ownership warehouses in EWM, including co-located stock and bin-level ownership models
• How to balance EWM today with S/4HANA planning tomorrow, including when full EWM may be too heavy and how to think about alternative warehouse models for smaller or remote sites