Warehouse Management Systems: Pie in the Sky or Floating Bakery?
Part One: Myths of the Warehouse Management Systems and Implementation
Rene Jones - September 30, 2004

Introduction

I just returned from a week long conference and as one of the speakers/vendors there, I was not looking to receive the same thing that the attendees were looking to receive. I was looking for clients; however, I mostly found "patients". I found most of my time was spent psychoanalyzing what people had been told by competitors and other logistics companies. Many of the people I spoke with were confused about what was available. They had question after question about systems on the market; the ROI they could expect; the time it would take to implement a system; and of course, whether a system was for their company or not...