WMS Pioneers

Understanding the Gartner WMS Critical Capabilities Report

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.

Softeon’s Mark Fralick on a New Way to Think about Warehouse Execution Systems and Workload Balancing

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.

Interfacing versus Integration in Materials Handling Systems

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.

Understanding Distributed Order Management Part 2

We conclude our look at this important but little understood type of supply chain software.

Understanding Distributed Order Management

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. 

A Look at Warehouse Management Systems in the Cloud

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

Highlights from CSCMP’s State of Logistics Report 2023

Annual study finds US Logistics Costs as Percent of GDP soared to record level last year.
 

An Update on State Laws Regulating use of Labor Standards in Distribution

Washington latest to pass legislation, targeting Amazon but impacting many other companies.

Improving Your Warehouse Management System Vocabulary

Softeon’s WMS Glossary of Terms provides a great resource for vendor selection and implementation team members.

Trends in Warehouse Management Systems from Gartner

Gartner recently released its annual Magic Quadrant report on Warehouse Management Systems. In addition to the vendor rankings, we’re always interested in the WMS market analysis Garter provides in the report.