Leveraging S/4HANA EWM for Sustainable and Paperless Warehousing

Warehousing has become central to the performance of supply chains and environmental sustainability, especially as logistics execution is redefined through digital transformation. Warehouse processes in paper form are associated with operational inefficiencies, data latency and unnecessary material usage which curtails the capacity of organizations to meet the sustainability goals. This paper will analyze how SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) can be used as a digital execution platform to facilitate paperless and sustainable warehousing. An illustration-based approach to methodology is chosen as a conceptual one, which decomposes the operations of the warehouse, maps the digital execution capabilities, and constructs a theoretical model of the relationship between paperless execution and the results of operational and sustainability processes. The experimental outcomes are supported by representative warehouse performance indicators, illustrating productivity gains, reduced errors, minimized rework, and impacts on energy consumption. The results indicate that execution-layer digitalization is critical in implementing operational excellence into quantifiable sustainability performance. The research findings are added to the expanding literature on the topic of sustainable warehousing since ERP-integrated warehouse execution systems are presented as key facilitators of paperless and logistically responsible warehousing activities.