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Turning SAP Transformation Into Real-World Execution

Built for Operational Pressure

Executing SAP Supply Chain Transformation in Real Time

As global supply chains accelerate, our team ensures organizations operate with clarity, speed, and confidence, delivering the right capabilities exactly when and where they are needed. When operational demands rise, C5MI becomes the dependable ally built for action.

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We Operationalize IT℠

Executing SAP Supply Chain Transformation in Real Time

Organizations rely on SAP S/4HANA, SAP EWM, and SAP TM to manage complex supply chains, yet most systems stop at visibility. C5MI aligns SAP systems to real-time execution, ensuring operations move with clarity, speed, and confidence across every site.

C5MI brings your supply chain and warehousing to life.
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Our Maturity Curve

Click a Stage To See Where Your Organization Stands

The Six Stages

Everyone Is on the Curve. What's Holding You Back?

Digital Core

C5MI implements and sustains SAP Digital Core systems across EWM, S/4HANA, TM, and EAM. The focus shifts from capability to operational value.

Integration

Platforms exist but operate in isolation. OT and IT are not connected. No cross-site visibility. The system reflects configuration, not operational reality.

Visibility

Integrations are in place and the data is there — but surfaced after the fact. The operation finds out what happened, not what is happening.

Adaptability

Visibility is established. The gap is acting on it — dynamic response, exception-driven action, and workforce adaptability at the speed the data demands.

Predictability

The operation reacts well. The next step is anticipating — predictive scoring, inventory forecasting, proactive risk management before the problem arrives.

Autonomy

Robots, RPA, AI, autonomous execution. The system acts on what it knows. The team manages strategy, not operational decisions technology can handle.

Your Common Operational Picture (COP)

Achieve SAP‑Driven Operational Clarity

Making timely and accurate business decisions is critical to an organization’s growth, competitive advantage, and customer experience. Our team will help you create a Common Operational Picture, providing a clear, live view of your people, processes, and technology so that all levels of your organization function according to a singular version of the truth. 

Proven Delivery Across the Enterprise

SAP Solutions Designed for End‑to‑End Execution

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Federal Support

Federal agencies rely on our industry‑leading SAP TM and EWM expertise, enabling large‑scale deployments that reinforce mission‑critical logistics with proven reliability.

Digital Core Services

Modernization accelerates through our SAP integration capabilities, aligning digital core systems to improve data quality and streamline enterprise operations with confidence.

C5MI's End-To-End Supply Chain Solutions.

End-To-End Supply Chain

Global supply chains gain resilience through our tailored solutions, increasing visibility and responsiveness across complex and distributed networks at scale.

Industry 4.0 by C5MI.

Industry 4.0 Solutions

Operational teams advance performance using our Industry 4.0 technologies, converting real‑time insights into smarter processes and measurable improvements across operations.

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Program Management

High‑stakes initiatives stay aligned under our structured program management approach, enabling clear execution and dependable outcomes across the organization.

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Sustainability & Stewardship

Long‑term value grows through our sustainable operational practices, helping organizations adopt responsible methods that strengthen environmental and community impact.

SAP S/4HANA implementations are best when entrusted to C5MI.
Cloud-Based Operations

Get Ahead of the Curve With SAP S/4HANA

As the 2027 SAP ECC end‑of‑support deadline nears, organizations must transition to SAP S/4HANA. With proven SAP S/4HANA implementation expertise, C5MI delivers seamless integrations that improve efficiency and strengthen core operations, providing confidence when transformation matters most.

Experience Matters

Your Partners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Our team has the expertise to understand your processes and deliver the right supply chain solution to drive business value.

C5MI Leadership: Don Young.

Don Young

CEO

C5MI Leadership: Derek Dyer.

Derek Dyer

COO

Working Together

Driving Innovation Across Our Technology Ecosystem

Let's Challenge the Future Together

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Don Young

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Don is a global operations leader with over 20 years of experience driving enterprise transformation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. He has led large-scale initiatives across industries, delivering measurable results through strategic planning, digital innovation, and high-impact executive leadership.

Derek Dyer

Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

Derek is a technology executive with deep expertise in enterprise systems, overseeing SAP organizations with budgets over $150M. He delivers strategic IT leadership, drives digital transformation, and aligns technology with business goals to achieve operational efficiency and measurable enterprise-wide success.

Brian Drzewiecki

President & Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Brian is a seasoned executive who brings deep business, financial, and operational expertise—delivering measurable impact through enterprise scale, driving growth, strategic M&A, and high-performance leadership across private equity-backed, publicly traded, and government contracting organizations.

Stage 6

Autonomy

The system acts. The team manages strategy, not execution.

Our Process

At full maturity, the supply chain does not wait for human decisions on routine operational matters — it makes them. Robots execute warehouse tasks. RPA handles transactional processes. AI optimizes routing, scheduling, and inventory positioning continuously. The organization’s people shift from executing operational decisions to overseeing the systems that make them.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • Automation investment made but not integrated into a coherent autonomous operating model
  • AI and robotics deployed in pockets — not connected to a system-wide decision framework
  • Operations teams still manually executing tasks that technology is capable of handling
  • The organization is ready for autonomy but the governance model has not caught up

Our Capabilities At This Stage

C5MI’s Automation Center of Excellence, AI practice, and Industry 4.0 capabilities are built for organizations ready to take the human out of the loop — deploying robotics, RPA, and autonomous execution as a coordinated operating model, not a collection of disconnected tools.

Stage 5

Predictability

Stop reacting to what happened. Start managing what is coming.

Our Process

This is the shift from reactive to proactive. The organization has real-time visibility and the ability to respond — but it is still responding to events after they occur. Predictability means the system anticipates what is going to happen: demand fluctuations, supply disruptions, inventory shortfalls, production risks. Leaders stop firefighting and start managing forward.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • Inventory policy built on historical assumptions rather than forward-looking demand signals
  • Supply disruptions and production shortfalls identified too late to prevent downstream impact
  • Planning cycles still periodic — the operation adjusts to change rather than anticipating it
  • Working capital and service performance still treated as competing priorities rather than connected ones

Our Capabilities At This Stage

C5MI’s Live Warehouse predictive capabilities and SCAR’s Network and Inventory Optimization module align inventory policy and supply chain planning to what is actually going to happen — shifting leadership from reactive management to forward confidence.

Stage 4

Adaptability

You can see what is happening. Now the operation can respond to it.

Our Process

Visibility changes what you know. Adaptability changes what you do with it. At Stage 4, real-time data stops being observed and starts driving action — dynamic task reallocation, exception-triggered responses, workforce adjustments made in minutes rather than hours. The operation develops the capability to adapt to what the live data is telling it, not what a shift debrief reveals afterwards.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • Dashboards exist but supervisors lack the governance structures to act on what they show
  • Responses to exceptions still manual and slow — by the time action is taken, the impact has compounded
  • Workforce capability inconsistent across sites — some teams adapt well, others do not
  • Improvement at one facility does not travel — no shared execution model to scale responses across the network

Our Capabilities At This Stage

SCAR’s Workforce Enablement module and C5MI’s Live Warehouse event-driven capabilities give operations the governance structures and real-time response tools to act on what the data is telling them — consistently, across every site and shift.

Stage 3

Visibility

The data exists. Now let the system tell you what is happening.

Our Process

At this point, the integrations are in place and the data is there — but it is not being surfaced in real time. Operations are still managed from lagging reports, periodic system checks, and verbal updates. The shift this stage delivers is simple but significant: instead of finding out what happened, you see what is happening — live status across warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • Operational decisions based on reports that are hours old by the time anyone reads them
  • Exceptions and bottlenecks identified only after they have already affected throughput or service
  • Supervisors managing by instinct and experience rather than current operational data
  • The data to manage better exists in the system — it just has not been made visible in real time

Our Capabilities At This Stage

C5MI’s Live Warehouse capability and SCAR’s Live Visibility module turn integrated data into a live operational picture — giving supervisors and leadership real-time status across every facility and function.

Stage 2

Integration

The systems exist. They are not talking to each other

Our Process

This is where foundational platforms are in place but operating in isolation. IT systems hold transactional data. OT systems — sensors, equipment, production lines, warehouse automation — generate operational data. The two worlds are not connected, which means decisions are still made on incomplete information. Cross-site visibility does not exist.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • OT data from warehouse and manufacturing equipment not flowing into SAP — decisions made without it
  • System configuration misaligned with actual operational workflows, creating friction and exceptions
  • No visibility across sites — each facility manages independently with no shared operational picture
  • IT and operations teams solving the same problems separately because their data is not connected

Our Capabilities At This Stage

C5MI bridges IT and OT through its Digital Core integration capabilities and SCAR’s EWM Transformation module — aligning systems to operational reality and connecting data across sites and functions.

Stage 1

Digital Core

The platform is invested in. Now it needs to perform.

Our Process

C5MI implements, standardizes, and sustains SAP Digital Core systems — EWM, S/4HANA, TM, and EAM. Most organizations arrive here having made the investment but not yet seeing the performance. The technology is deployed. The gap between what the system was designed to deliver and what the operation is actually getting is where C5MI starts.

Where Organizations Get Stuck

  • SAP EWM, S/4HANA, or TM deployed but not delivering expected throughput or data quality
  • System configured for the implementation — not for how the operation actually runs
  • Workarounds accumulating as teams adapt to the system rather than the system adapting to them
  • Post-go-live support consumed by firefighting rather than optimization

Our Capabilities At This Stage

C5MI implements, standardizes, and sustains SAP Digital Core systems — delivering the performance the investment was designed to produce, and maintaining it long after go-live.

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