Openship vs SAP Extended Warehouse Management
Openship and SAP Extended Warehouse Management are both warehouse management software. Openship is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 1.7k GitHub stars. SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a commercial product from SAP SE.
Which to pick
- Pick Openship when
- A merchant or dropshipper fulfils through several suppliers or 3PLs and wants order routing it controls.
- Pick SAP Extended Warehouse Management when
- A company runs SAP S/4HANA and needs advanced warehouse control inside the same system.
Side by side
Routes orders from sales channels such as Shopify, WooCommerce and marketplaces to fulfilment partners and back, with matching rules and tracking sync.
SAP's warehouse management module for high-volume and automated warehouses, embedded in S/4HANA or as a separate deployment.
AGPL licensed, and each channel connection needs setup and testing.
It needs SAP specialists and only makes sense in an SAP landscape.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
TypeScript, Next.js, Keystone.js, Prisma and PostgreSQL
ABAP
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by SAP SE
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.7k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.