Do Chinese Enterprises Really Need MES and WMS?
Nelson M. Nones - December 21, 2004

Introduction

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and warehouse management systems (WMS) have been around since the 1980s. Today, despite rapid growth of the industrial sector in China as well as other Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European countries in recent years, the vast majority of MES and WMS installations are found in North America, Western Europe and Japan. Is this because enterprises in China and other developing countries don't really need software like this? Or, looking ahead, can we expect demand for MES and WMS software to boom in the developing world?..