Challenge the present. Change the future.
Challenge the present. Change the future.
C5MI’s Live Warehouse® consulting services and solutions deliver value by providing a holistic approach to warehouse management systems. At its core, Live Warehouse services help you plan and implement SAP® software solutions as a highly automated, technologically advanced system that provides an actively integrated “living” storyline approach to warehouse operations.
Through an SAP digital core system Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Live Warehouse combines transactional execution intersected with digitally codified physical processes. When fully integrated, you will experience a living, centralized hub for managing all aspects of your warehouse operations.
In 2020, COVID-19 disrupted supply chains, highlighting gaps in warehouse and logistics resiliency. As distribution centers evolve rapidly, the need for agile and resilient systems grows. Enter Live Warehouse, where you will experience:
Manage stock levels efficiently with real-time updates and automated robots, ensuring accurate inventory tracking and preventing stockouts, overstocking, and record errors.
By leveraging advanced analytics, you can spot trends, predict demand, and improve warehouse layout, helping you make intelligent inventory, staffing, and operations decisions.
Increase productivity by improving picking and packing with smart routes and strategies, using automation to streamline tasks, and boosting performance with real-time digital monitoring and analytics.
Receive a much smoother order fulfillment with a system that connects to your ERP or eCommerce platform, making workflows easier and speeding up processing and shipping.
The Live Warehouse Experience Center (LWEC) makes the impossible possible. With our simulated environment, you can test and observe all the capabilities a Live Warehouse System brings to your organization.
Are you interested in our facility or curious about how a Live Warehouse system can help you meet your needs? Contact us today!
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We designed our Live Warehouse consultation and implementation solutions around inventory accuracy and productivity! Our SAP solutions integrated with Industry 4.0 technologies create an easy-to-use platform that drives end-to-end visibility and advanced analytics to improve business outcomes.
Our innovative Live Warehouse solutions use our maturity model as their foundation, providing the right solutions that meet your current and future demands as your operations mature.
Not sure where your processes currently stand? Download our included guide learn where you are currently positioned today and how C5MI can help you get to where you need to be.
Stage 6
The system acts. The team manages strategy, not execution.
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.
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
Stop reacting to what happened. Start managing what is coming.
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.
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
You can see what is happening. Now the operation can respond to it.
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.
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
The data exists. Now let the system tell you what is happening.
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.
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
The systems exist. They are not talking to each other
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.
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
The platform is invested in. Now it needs to perform.
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.
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.
