Westernacher Consulting

Westernacher Consulting Westernacher provides global Business & SAP consulting and operates with more than 1200 consultants Our Mission:

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Founded in 1969, Westernacher Consulting operates worldwide, with consultants in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Westernacher provides global business and SAP consulting, serving medium to large sized enterprises striving for innovation, operational excellence and profitable, sustainable growth. Westernacher has comprehensive industry expertise in manufacturing, logistics services, retail & consume

r goods, life sciences and utilities. The company’s business expertise ranges from enterprise resource planning, sales, e-commerce, procurement, manufacturing, warehouse logistics and transportation, after sales service and spare parts management to business analytics, finance and HCM. We deliver end-to-end value through innovation process and technology consulting plus a range of other services.

2. We are true pioneers and experts in emerging technologies and applications.

3. We deliver what we promise, to the highest quality.

4. We stand for reliance and commitment to our people and business partners.

5. We live our values, attract and retain talent, encourage entrepreneurial spirit and are proud of our corporate culture and the integrity of our people.

Is "fit-to-standard" still possible once you start customizing? At LEAP 2026, Westernacher's consultants show how AI and...
05/09/2026

Is "fit-to-standard" still possible once you start customizing? At LEAP 2026, Westernacher's consultants show how AI and modular add-ons let you keep a lean SAP core and still sharpen your competitive edge with real customer numbers, not slideware.

September 24, 2026, online. Register now.
https://hubs.la/Q04vwQgs0

What Actually Makes SAP Warehouse and Transportation Projects Succeed.A successful SAP warehouse or transportation proje...
03/09/2026

What Actually Makes SAP Warehouse and Transportation Projects Succeed.

A successful SAP warehouse or transportation project is decided long before go-live — and it's rarely the software that decides it.
The projects that pay off have clear governance and real business-IT alignment from day one. The ones that don't usually protected the technology budget, not the business case.

On September 17, Deborah Bethell, Warehouse Practice Director Westernacher Consulting UK&I, and Matthias Platzer, Practice Director Yard Logistics Europe, Westernacher Consulting, share what that looks like in practice, drawn from decades of supply chain implementation work.

Register here:
https://hubs.la/Q04vvh1M0

On September 9th, Westernacher Consulting will be at SAP Connect Day Romandie in Crissier – where innovation meets impac...
02/09/2026

On September 9th, Westernacher Consulting will be at SAP Connect Day Romandie in Crissier – where innovation meets impact. It's a great opportunity to discover how AI-driven solutions and connected data can help simplify operations, accelerate decision-making, and open up new avenues for growth.

Thorsten Schmidt, General Manager Westernacher Consulting Switzerland, and Kirsten Wachholz, will be on-site and ready to connect, share insights, and discuss how SAP brings together strategy, ex*****on, and trusted AI to turn today's priorities into tomorrow's competitive edge.

See you there.
September 9th, Millennium, Crissier, Switzerland
Register now.

https://hubs.la/Q04vvdQh0

Visibility Across Your Supply Chain LandscapeYour supply chain landscape isn't short on systems. It's short on visibilit...
01/09/2026

Visibility Across Your Supply Chain Landscape

Your supply chain landscape isn't short on systems. It's short on visibility into how they connect to the processes running on top of them.

SAP Business Transformation Management (BTM) — combining SAP Signavio's process intelligence with SAP LeanIX's enterprise architecture transparency, both part of SAP's BTP portfolio — works with the landscape you already have. It shows where complexity actually sits, and where it's safe to simplify.

On September 15, we look at how SAP BTM gives IT and business leaders a shared, defensible view of process and application dependencies — the kind of visibility that turns a transformation business case from a slide deck into evidence.
Westernacher Consulting brings more than 55 years of logistics expertise, over 30 years of SAP experience, and a global team of 1,400+ consultants. Join experts Brian Halkjaer and Philipp Wüst to gain deeper insights into the topic.

🗓️ September 15, 2026
🕒 3:00 PM EET
👉 Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04vvdjq0

Stop the workarounds. Start with what SAP TM already handles."Autonomous transportation planning" gets thrown around a l...
30/08/2026

Stop the workarounds. Start with what SAP TM already handles.

"Autonomous transportation planning" gets thrown around a lot. Most of it is hype.
Here's what's actually live in SAP TM today: AI-assisted carrier selection, route optimization, capacity matching, and exception handling that resolves routine issues automatically and escalates the complex ones with options — not raw data. Joule lets planners query the Transportation Cockpit in plain language instead of digging through freight order lines.

What's still a human call: customer SLAs, carrier negotiations, disruptions, compliance, and the cost-service-risk trade-offs no algorithm should make alone.

The shift isn't planners disappearing. It's planners managing hundreds of AI decisions instead of hundreds of freight orders.
Where's your team on that — still building the rules, or already governing them?

Read Westernacher Consulting's article to see how more than 30 years of SAP expertise continue to deliver supply chain success for customers worldwide.

https://hubs.la/Q04vGfVt0

27/08/2026

SAP ends the maintenance window for SAP APO in 2027.

Moving to SAP IBP doesn't mean starting over. The costly mistake is copy-pasting your old APO processes as-is — every process you replicate instead of rethink is value left on the table. We call it the Trapped Value Gap.

Here's what most transformation partners miss: the technology is only half the story.
Most SAP IBP rollouts fall short not because the system failed, but because the people side was an afterthought. That's where we start — bringing your team along so adoption sticks, not just the go-live.

Get that right, and SAP IBP gives you a foundation built for AI-driven planning: moving from reacting to predicting, backed by 30+ years of SAP expertise and 1,400+ consultants who've done this before.

Still running SAP APO?
Watch the video and join the Westernacher Consulting free SAP IBP Inspiration Day.
https://hubs.la/Q04tNpY10

Warehouses have to do two things at once: run standardized processes reliably, and stay flexible enough to change when t...
25/08/2026

Warehouses have to do two things at once: run standardized processes reliably, and stay flexible enough to change when the business changes. That balance is getting harder to strike — and AI, automation, and robotics are changing what's possible on both sides.

Join our LEAP 2026 session to learn:
- How SAP EWM connects AI, robotics, and automation on a single platform
- Where AI is already improving warehouse productivity
- When extending standard SAP EWM with proven solutions pays off long-term

For logistics and warehouse leaders, this is a chance to see what's actually working in the field — not just what's possible on paper.
Register now for the Westernacher Intelligent Enterprise Summit LEAP 2026, online on September 24, to hear more practical insights on the future of digital supply chains.

Westernacher Consulting: 30+ years of SAP expertise, 1,400+ consultants worldwide, with hands-on SAP EWM experience across industries.
https://hubs.la/Q04szzzv0

What if modernizing your supply chain didn't require a two-year project and an open-ended budget? That's the question we...
19/08/2026

What if modernizing your supply chain didn't require a two-year project and an open-ended budget?

That's the question we built the Westernacher SAP Cloud ERP Supply Chain Fast Solution to answer.

Wholesale distributors run on thin margins and tight timelines. Legacy systems slow decisions down, bury data in spreadsheets, and turn every ERP conversation into a multi-year risk. We think supply chain modernization should work differently.

In 16 weeks, on a fixed scope and a fixed price, we move your supply chain onto SAP Cloud ERP — pre-configured with best-practice processes built for how wholesale distributors actually operate:

🤖 Embedded AI that supports faster, better-informed decisions
📊 Ready-to-use analytics dashboards for real-time visibility
⚡ Implementation accelerators that cut setup time, not corners

Full SAP Cloud ERP capability. A fraction of the usual timeline.
See what's possible for your wholesale distribution business: https://hubs.la/Q04tjVPC0

Manual SAP checks can quietly eat up 7.5 hours a day — spread across 20+ tools, dependent on whoever's on shift, and alw...
18/08/2026

Manual SAP checks can quietly eat up 7.5 hours a day — spread across 20+ tools, dependent on whoever's on shift, and always reactive rather than predictive.

We Monitor from Westernacher Consulting flips that: real-time monitoring, intelligent alerting, and automated operations in one dashboard. Read-only, no installation on the SAP side, and live in about two hours.

One manufacturing customer reached 99.8% SAP availability and prevented eight outages before they happened — proof that the right add-on strengthens your clean core instead of weighing it down.

With 30+ years of SAP expertise and 1,400+ consultants worldwide, Westernacher built We Monitor with exactly this in mind.
Curious how it works?

Join Martin Espenschied's session at the Westernacher Intelligent Enterprise Summit LEAP 2026. 📅 September 24 | Online 🔗 Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04sz6cS0

Growing into new markets often means outgrowing your current trade compliance setup — and most organizations don't see i...
17/08/2026

Growing into new markets often means outgrowing your current trade compliance setup — and most organizations don't see it coming until it starts costing them.

Every company expanding across borders eventually runs into the same SAP question: are the embedded International Trade capabilities in S/4HANA enough, or is it time for SAP GTS (Global Trade Services)?

It's not about company size. It's about compliance complexity, shipment volumes, and how much cross-border risk you're carrying.
- SAP S/4HANA embedded International Trade: right-sized for simpler trade flows and lower cross-border volume
- SAP GTS: takes over once volumes, geographies, and compliance requirements outgrow the embedded tools

With 30+ years of SAP expertise and 1,400+ consultants, Westernacher Consulting helps organizations make this call before it becomes a costly one.

Read the full blog:
https://hubs.la/Q04szbqB0

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