Episodes

18 hours ago
18 hours ago
Getting WMS team members on the same page in terms of terminology is a key part of a successful Warehouse Management System project. The WMS Glossary of Terms can help, defining more than 90 terms and acronyms, as an on-line resource or downloadable pdf. Great handout for term members at start of a project.

Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Less well-known than the WMS Magic Quadrant, the Gartner Critical Capabilities report ranks WMS vendors purely on functionality across nine attributes, weighted by different levels of warehouse complexity. It is an important companion piece to the MQ to understand the WMS market, as we explain in this podcast.

Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
In the second of our two podcasts featuring highlights of Mark Fralick’s interview with Bob Trebilcock of Modern Materials Handling magazine, Fralick suggests a new way to think about how Warehouse Execution Systems might orchestrate order fulfillment to balance work across the distribution center.

Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Highlights from a recent Modern Materials Handling magazine podcast featuring editor Bob Trebilcock and Mark Fralick, Chief Technology Officer at Softeon. “Interfacing is easy. Integration is hard,” when it comes to warehouse automation, Fralick says. Trebilcock wants to know why.

Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
We conclude our look at this important but little understood type of supply chain software.

Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Distributed Order Management or DOM is a powerful and unique tool to optimize order sourcing across an extended network. It is most well known in Omnichannel retail applications, but there are a number of use cases in B2B as well. Learn more in this informative podcast.

Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
After a somewhat slow start, some lessons learned from dozens of Cloud WMS deployments.

Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Annual study finds US Logistics Costs as Percent of GDP soared to record level last year.

Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Washington latest to pass legislation, targeting Amazon but impacting many other companies.

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Softeon’s WMS Glossary of Terms provides a great resource for vendor selection and implementation team members.