BEYOND ESSENTIALS
Core insight: Allweiler, a German 160-year-old pump manufacturer, replaced paper delivery notes with scanner-guided SAP Logistics Management processes – one of the first such projects worldwide, and the first on SAP ECC.
Consequence: A site doesn't need SAP EWM, or a finished S/4HANA migration, to move from paper to guided digital warehouse processes.
Mid-market angle: For a mid-market manufacturer running one historically grown site, this is the kind of systems change that used to feel out of reach – now available as a fast, scoped rollout.
Allweiler GmbH, a pump manufacturer based in Radolfzell am Bodensee (Lake Constance), Germany, has spent roughly 160 years building centrifugal, eccentric screw, and twin-screw pumps used in industrial applications, power generation, oil and gas, and marine and navy equipment. Part of CIRCOR, Allweiler's Radolfzell site grew organically over that time: warehouse, production, and shipping now span several buildings and outdoor areas. Until recently, all of it ran on paper delivery notes, with staff experience filling in wherever the paperwork couldn't keep up.
That combination – a sprawling, historically grown site and manual, experience-dependent handoffs – is a familiar bottleneck for mid-market manufacturers. Allweiler is now digitizing goods receipt, putaway, production supply, and shipping with SAP Logistics Management (SAP LGM), aiming for full visibility into goods movements, shorter search times, and more flexibility when deadlines are tight.
Rethinking logistics starts with questioning the assumption that every site needs the same system. SAP Logistics Management gives companies the opportunity to redesign warehouse and transport execution around how their network actually works: lightweight enough for smaller and satellite sites, connected enough for real-time collaboration, and flexible enough to evolve as the business grows. Instead of treating the end of SAP WM and LE-TRA as a forced replacement project, organizations can use this transition to simplify operations, reduce dependence on individual expertise, and build a more responsive logistics model for the future.
SAP Logistics Management is SAP's cloud-native warehouse and transport application for sites where SAP EWM would be more system than the job requires. It runs mobile, scanner-guided workflows instead of paper, and it's built for exactly the kind of decentralized, historically grown site Allweiler operates. For answers to the most pressing practical questions – from SAP ECC integration to warehouse-floor changes – see All for One’s SAP Logistics Management FAQ.
Allweiler evaluated three options before committing: SAP LGM, SAP WM, and SAP EWM. The deciding factor was a fast, pragmatic entry into scanner-based processes, without introducing a solution sized for a much bigger operation. Oliver Bürger, Senior Director Logistics Execution & Procurement at All for One, put it directly: "Good consulting means finding the solution that truly fits the customer. For Allweiler's requirements, SAP EWM would have been too much. With SAP Logistics Management, SAP closed an important gap in its portfolio: companies get a pragmatic entry point into digitally guided warehouse and shipping processes – lean, agile, and quick to scale. That's exactly what Allweiler needs."
All for One, the UNITED VARS member company leading the implementation, brings full-stack SAP depth built specifically around mid-market customers like Allweiler – companies that need a solution scoped to their actual complexity, not their industry's largest players.
Allweiler staff now receive their tasks directly on mobile devices, with the system guiding them through each step and to the right storage bin. That guidance matters most where the old process relied on know-how: it cuts the dependence on individual experience and shortens training and onboarding time for new or temporary staff. The warehouse control center can also steer priorities in real time – an urgently needed spare part, for instance, can move straight from a goods-receipt scan to shipping, skipping putaway entirely.
Daniel Schulz, Director Supply Chain at Allweiler, described the shift in concrete terms: "Until now, our warehouse and shipping processes were shaped by manual work. With SAP Logistics Management, we get far more transparency into material movements and tasks – with noticeably less time spent searching and coordinating. For us, that's a major step forward in logistics efficiency."
Allweiler's ERP still runs on SAP ECC, with a move to SAP S/4HANA planned for the coming years. Rather than wait for that migration to finish, All for One built an integration layer connecting SAP LGM to Allweiler's existing ECC landscape – making this one of the first SAP LGM customer projects worldwide, and the first implemented by an SAP partner on SAP ECC. Allweiler also runs All for One's Shipping KIT alongside it, an SAP-integrated shipping application that creates labels automatically and tracks shipments end to end; All for One is the first partner to connect a SaaS application to SAP LGM this way.
Carsten Abel, Product Manager for SAP Logistics Management at SAP, framed the project's broader significance: "Allweiler is a good example of the many companies that want to move their warehouse execution out of the paper world and into mobile processes. Since February 2026, SAP Logistics Management has offered a lean, cloud-based entry point for that shift – complementing SAP EWM, which stays focused on complex, highly automated distribution centers. Allweiler's move underlines the trend toward agile logistics networks that deliver value quickly and standardize easily across sites. We're glad that All for One is leading the implementation at Allweiler, showing how SAP Logistics Management is landing in practice across the partner ecosystem."
Allweiler and All for One are already treating the Radolfzell rollout as a blueprint for other Allweiler plants in Germany and beyond. The same logic extends past one company: an integration pattern that lets an ECC customer run SAP LGM today, and a shipping process automated end to end, is useful anywhere a mid-market manufacturer is stuck between an aging warehouse setup and an ERP migration still years out.
That's where the alliance layer matters. All for One built this specialism in Germany; UNITED VARS, as a strategic alliance of hand-picked local market leaders with real people on the ground in 100+ countries, can put it to work for customers well outside the markets any single member serves directly.
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It's SAP's lighter-weight tool for warehouse and shipping tasks, aimed at sites too small or too spread out to justify a full SAP EWM project. Allweiler picked it because Radolfzell needed scanner-based processes fast, not a system built for a much bigger operation.
Yes, through a connector All for One built specifically for this. Allweiler is staying on SAP ECC for now and didn't want its warehouse project sitting on hold until the S/4HANA move happens.
EWM assumes a level of automation and scale that a site like Radolfzell – several buildings, moderate volume, no need for robotics-grade automation – simply doesn't have. LGM matches that reality instead of forcing a bigger system onto a smaller problem.
Paper delivery notes are gone. Employees follow guided steps on a handheld device, and dispatchers can redirect priority shipments – an urgent spare part, for instance – straight to shipping without it ever reaching a shelf.
All for One, the UNITED VARS member company behind the project, ran it end to end – from the SAP ECC connector to the Shipping KIT that automates Allweiler's labels and shipment tracking.