TGW Logistics
If the wayRTS APS software is the anchor point in a large software migration, this is the proof that a company has perfectly mastered the APS system. Even during its switch from Navision to SAP S/4HANA, the TGW Logistics Group always maintained its transparent planning.
Plan projects and production – with great success
TGW Logistics Group continues to use APS software waySuite after ERP change
Maximum transparency in planning is one of the success factors for the TGW Logistics Group. The company was founded in 1969 in Wels, Upper Austria, and today it is a global corporate group with more than 4,400 employees and total sales of EUR 924 million (2021/2022). The TGW Logistics Group develops and produces material flow and warehouse logistics solutions. These include complex logistics centers for manufacturers and distributors in a wide range of industries. In this context, TGW integrates automation, robotics, software, and controls, among other things. Since the beginning of 2001, the TGW Logistics Group has been using valantic’s APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) software waySuite to plan projects and production – with great success.
Results & customer benefits
Increased efficiency and productivity
Optimization of project throughput
Greater planning reliability
Success story TGW Logistics: Transparent planning with APS software wayRTS
Read in our case study how TGW Logistics is using valantic’s APS software waySuite to plan projects and production – with great success.
Regular material flows vs. spare parts business
TGW maintains a very precisely structured daily workflow for the planning of production capacities and material flows, thus achieving impressive on-time delivery rates. In normal business operations, capacity planning is optimized through daily adjustments. Spare parts cannot be planned in advance as production requirements can. Since spare parts planning is often about preventing delays or even shutdowns in customer intralogistics, the spare parts business is extremely time critical. Planners need to find quick solutions using the real-time simulation capability of wayRTS (Real Time Simulation), which gives it its name.
Transparent planning with APS-Software
Working with waySuite makes material flows and production planning transparent for more than just the planning team. The wayMES module is used to publish the work inventories at the workplaces in production. In addition to the live system, TGW has two other way scenarios. Once a day, “way info” is updated to provide insight into the planning of various departments in the company. An innovative setup is also the “way preview” scenario. Here, all the requirements of expected projects are maintained, capacitive simulations are carried out for long-term planning, and disbanded provisional parts lists are even published. This is invaluable for purchasing in terms of communication with suppliers, because it allows them to anticipate approximate future needs at an early stage.
ERP migration – planning needs to continue
The TGW Logistics Group decided to implement SAP S/4HANA. When planning production and procurement with wayRTS, this meant replacing the data-bearing system. During migration, waySuite was supposed to serve as a guarantee for continuity and transparency in production planning and control. Both the way-SAP interface and the structures in the ERP had to be adapted to do justice to the proven processes on the one hand and the greater complexity in S/4HANA on the other.
wayRTS adjustments during the migration of the TGW Logistics Group to SAP S/4HANA
Network-based project level with wayPRO
Connection of the SAP EWM warehouse system
Own MRP department in SAP for spare parts business
Multi-projekt management - Mastering dependencies in projects
Providing customized intralogistics solutions and highly automated logistics centers is a complex process that includes design and other development services. TGW uses the multi-project management software wayPRO. The waySuite components make it possible to control the numerous dependencies in projects based on network diagrams.
Another sub-project to prepare for the migration was the implementation of the previous processes under the changed conditions resulting from the use of SAP EWM. Since Extended Warehouse Management, for example, transfers retrieved material, this had to be implemented in valantic’s certified SAP interface. A solution was also found for the deviating processes in the spare parts business by setting up a separate scheduling area. TGW accepted many custom developments in order not to change the processes in too many places. The preliminary work proved to be successful. For the go-live, valantic set up a standby service in order to be able to react immediately to problems. This was not required; the migration was completed smoothly.
Sascha Kawa
Project manager for valantic
”The adaptation of the SAP interface was a sideshow compared to the change of the ERP system, and yet it presented an interesting challenge. TGW attached great importance to continuing the processes that have been perfected over decades with wayRTS, and so we had the task of mapping them in the software during the migration under the conditions of the greater complexity of SAP.“
About TGW Logistics Group
TGW Logistics Group is a leading international provider of intralogistics solutions. For more than 50 years, the Austrian specialist has been implementing automated systems for its international customers: from A for Adidas to Z for Zalando. As a system integrator, TGW takes on the planning, production and implementation of complex logistics centers – from mechatronics and robotics to control systems and software.
TGW Logistics Group has branches in Europe, China and the USA and employs more than 4,400 people worldwide. In the 2021/2022 financial year, the company achieved a total turnover of 924 million euros.
Success story TGW Logistics: Transparent planning with APS software wayRTS
Read in our success story how TGW Logistics Group is using valantic’s APS software waySuite to plan projects and production – with great success.
Anne Wiegert
Senior Manager Marketing & Communications
valantic Supply Chain Excellence