WMS Pioneers
Softeon CEO Jim Hoefflin and CTO Mark Fralick team up in this limited podcast series to share stories, anecdotes, and lessons learned over the last 35 years in the warehousing industry. The two friends and colleagues specifically discuss their role in creating one of the first warehouse management systems (WMS). Watch all the episodes at https://www.softeon.com/wms-pioneers.
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Episodes
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Warehouse Management Systems were a little late to the Cloud party but now are the great majority of implementations. Softeon, a tier 1 WMS provider, has successfully deployed Warehouse Management Systems in the Cloud dozens of times. Here are some lessons learned from those successes...
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
At the recent Gartner supply chain symposium in Orlando, it was revealed that the number 1 topic for client inquiries is around robots for distribution.
A recent Gartner survey found that for about two-thirds of companies interested in robotics, the driver for doing so now is to combat labor shortages, not to drive cost reduction, which is very different than just a few years ago.
Gartner has categorized these robots into seven types.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
With what appears to be growing interest in automation in distribution, driven by severe labor issues for many shippers and more, Softeon commissioned a survey and report on a variety of topics relevant to materials handling systems and warehouse software.
The report is based on survey data from a wide variety of business sectors, led by retailers and consumer goods companies of all sorts, but many other industry sectors as well.
The full report will be available soon, but here’s a little preview.
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
In our last episode, we discussed some of the ways efficiency can be improved with the right software tools. Here are some more ways you can optimize Cart Picking in ways you may not know about...
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
How warehouse software can optimize cart picking in ways you probably don’t currently know about.
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
In our last episode, we discussed how Softeon and Thru-Put Partners produced a webinar on the “7 Uncommon Keys to End-End WMS Success.”
We covered the first 4 of those tips, which included:
Understanding WMS Value Upfront
Creating a clear decision-making framework
Getting the demo right, and…
Not wasting time early in the project
This week, the final three uncommon tips...
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Recently, Softeon and Thru-Put Partners – a leading supply chain consulting firm – produced a webinar with Modern Materials Handling Magazine on the “7 Uncommon Keys to End-End WMS Success.”
On this podcast we’ll cover the first 4 of those, and we promise these will be a little different than tips you might have heard from others.
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In this week’s Logistics Insights podcast, we sort out the WMS, WCS and WES flavors of warehouse software.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Gartner recently held its virtual Supply Chain Symposium for 2021.
That included a session on Warehouse Management Systems, or WMS, led by well-known Gartner analyst, Dwight Klappich.
During the session, Klappich detailed what he sees as key trends in WMS technology moving forward. As an intro to those trends, Klappich first noted that Warehouse Management Systems are getting smarter.
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
In this week’s Logistics Insights podcast, a look at three key trends in warehouse management systems, including the move to the Cloud, the rise of Warehouse Execution Systems and the increasing support for automation, such as for mobile robots and putwall systems.