What is the future of Warehouse Management module within R/3 as an independent consultant?
Warehouse Management continues to be a pretty obscure area within SAP in terms of market acceptance. As such, it is a niche for “expert level” consultants only. If you don’t have five years of heavy WM configuration experience, you’re going to have a hard time landing WM contracts. Fortunately, for many consultants, WM is simply part of a broader, and more broadly marketable, logistics background. The future for WM consulting, and by that I mean focusing solely on WM, is not all that bright. The reason for that is twofold: SAP’s Warehouse Management module is neither widely used, nor is it prominently positioned in the mySAP product line going forward. SAP has found Warehouse Management to be a challenging best-of-breed area, and the WM module has continually fought the battle of third party supremacy. To this day, many companies use third party solutions to support Warehouse Management, and SAP doesn’t have a real solid track record of beating out the third party WM vendors. The botto
