ERP and Warehouse Management: Technology, Challenges, and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - September 22, 2005

Technology Strengths

Leveraging a common development framework is an important distinction for midsized companies seeking an ERP back-office system with strong warehouse management capabilities, and Adonix is one of the few software vendors with such an integrated offering on the same platform. Based in France, this privately-held vendor offers enterprise solutions to medium, process and discrete manufacturing companies. Other mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors Infor (former Lilly Software), Epicor Software, IBS, SYSPRO, Exact Software, 3i Infotech, and Sage ACCPAC, also offer strong warehouse management system (WMS) products in addition to their traditional ERP products, and could prevent the likes of Manhattan Associates, HighJump, Catalyst Internationals, RedPrairie, and Provia from penetrating the ERP mid-market, in the less complex environments, with basic case and pallet picking, straightforward task interleaving, and selectable radio frequency (RF), label, and paper by work area requirements...