Warehouse automation and intralogistics project work
Tidira supports industrial companies and project teams with concept planning, functional specifications, tendering and supplier evaluation, detailed planning, system integration, testing, acceptance and operational readiness.
The work can cover one defined phase or continue across the project. Fabian Ecker leads it directly and defines the required inputs, deliverables, responsibility boundaries and decisions for each mandate.
Feasibility and concept
Concept planning establishes what should be built, whether it is technically feasible and whether the investment is justified.
The work may concern a new warehouse or production building, an expansion, a brownfield conversion, production supply, a capacity problem, labour availability or the replacement of an existing system. The planning basis combines business and production requirements, available data, process observations, products and load units, site conditions and known project constraints.
The recommendation may be a highly automated system. It may also be process or master-data work, an ERP or WMS improvement, focused low-investment technology or a staged implementation. The level of automation follows the operating requirements and economics.
Specification and procurement
Once a concept is approved, the requirements must be documented in enough detail for suppliers to design, price and take responsibility for their scope.
For a complex automated system, the functional specification can exceed one hundred pages before layouts, data tables and annexes are added. Its value lies in making visible what is required, what is excluded, who owns each interface and how delivery will be evaluated.
In a supplier-agnostic mandate, Tidira is not tied to one equipment or software portfolio. Suppliers remain responsible for developing and standing behind their proposed solution. Tidira gives the client the specification, comparison and project-side judgment needed to select between them.
Coordinated design
After supplier selection, the proposed system has to become a coordinated design that fits the building, connects to the client's systems and can be installed, tested and operated.
Tidira reviews and develops the planning at the level required by the mandate and keeps client decisions, supplier design and specialist interfaces connected.
Detailed supplier design remains the supplier's responsibility unless a different scope is explicitly agreed. Tidira examines whether it fulfils the specified operation, exposes gaps between disciplines and tracks the client decisions needed to close them.
Delivery and proof
During implementation, Tidira can provide project-side technical management across suppliers, planners, client functions and the future operating team.
Equipment and software functions may pass individually while the end-to-end process still fails because data, interfaces, status logic, staffing or exception handling are incomplete. The test programme therefore covers both supplied components and the operating scenarios the client must run.
Acceptance authority, formal approvals and contractual decisions remain with the authorised client representatives. Tidira prepares the technical basis, coordinates evidence within its mandate and makes unresolved conditions visible before acceptance or go-live.
A defined specialist mandate
A mandate can begin in any of the four phases. The required effort follows the decision, available evidence and agreed deliverables, not a standard team size.
Decision to be supported or project result to be delivered
Available and required source material
Analysis, planning and deliverables included
Meetings, reviews and supplier interactions expected
Client, supplier and specialist inputs required
Decisions and approvals that remain with the client
Exclusions, dependencies and handover into the next phase
Experience applied to the work
Tidira was founded in 2025. The experience behind its work includes Fabian's earlier roles inside system integration and industrial operations as well as current project-side mandates. Prior employment work is stated as such rather than presented as a Tidira project list.
Prior system-integrator experience | 2012 to 2018
Fabian led commercial and technical material-handling projects across Europe and the Americas. His work included project engineering, client workshops, functional specifications, budgets, schedules, software testing, commissioning and handover across systems ranging from focused operator assistance to automated storage, transport, AGV and robot-picking applications.
Prior industrial experience | 2019 to 2022
At an advanced rail-technology manufacturer, Fabian planned and implemented a fully automated high-bay warehouse with WCS/MFS and SAP EWM. His responsibility covered feasibility, tendering, supplier selection, cost and risk, FAT, SAT and start-up, then continued into operation, maintenance and expansion planning.
Prior operating experience | 2022 to 2023
Fabian built the warehouse and intralogistics operation largely from the ground up for a growing e-mobility manufacturer. He hired and led the team, set up the physical warehouse, implemented Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, established paperless processes, inventory control and training, and managed the operation directly.
Current Tidira work
Current work connects automated small-parts storage and production supply to source-backed sizing, load units, stock families, growth scenarios, backstock, supplier scope, building fit, master data and system responsibilities. The mandate spans concept, tender, detailed planning and preparation for implementation and testing.
Current project-side experience
Project work includes goods receipt, material status, handling units and labels, sampling, dispensing, frozen and temperature-controlled materials, hazardous-liquid interfaces, controlled-zone transitions, waste, system handovers and production ownership. These flows become area, route, storage, handling and interface requirements for the wider planning team.
Practical project questions
The greatest freedom exists before supplier preferences, building decisions or contractual scope have hardened. Tidira can also enter during tender, implementation or testing, but inherited decisions and contracts determine what can still be changed economically.
Yes. Concept planning, tender preparation, supplier evaluation, detailed planning, implementation management or a defined technical review can be commissioned separately. Tidira first checks the assumptions entering that phase and documents the basis on which the next phase can continue.
Not in a supplier-agnostic client mandate. Tidira can define the need, prepare the market process and compare solutions without being tied to one equipment or software portfolio. The actual role is stated for every engagement.
Yes. Tidira can work for the owner, a general planner, an architect or another planning partner with an explicit phase, scope, interface and responsibility boundary.
Describe the business objective or constraint, project phase, next decision and relevant date. Data extracts, layouts, process descriptions, supplier proposals, specifications, schedules and open-point lists are useful if available.
The authorised client representatives and appointed specialists retain their formal decisions and approvals. Tidira prepares the technical basis, coordinates evidence within its scope and states unresolved conditions before the decision.
Project entry
Send the phase, expected scope, relevant dates and available information and documents. Fabian reviews the context directly. If Tidira can contribute, he proposes a proportionate next piece of work.
