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IDII Software Newsletter Volume 1 No. 14 October 27th 2000 |
To assist the professional dealing with software in Warehousing Distribution, Logistics,
and the Supply Chain.
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Techniques, Vision, & Educational Thoughts “GUTS: The 7 Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World’s Hottest Car Company” by Robert A. Lutz. At CLM's annual conference this week (and
in his book), Robert Lutz shared his 7 principles,
which he calls his “Immutable Laws”. We share these principles to expand one’s
horizon and thinking.
At the conference, Lutz discussed true solid leadership versus “appearance” leadership. True leadership is “right brain” thinkers that “are” versus “appearance”. Leaders challenge their employees to achieve the goals of the organization by creating a compelling vision… and unlocking the individual’s abilities. Leaders inspire action, communicate, support and facilitate. Read the whole book to fully catch the vision. |
Impact In Software Design Software designers in ERP, WMS, TMS should decide which path to take. Path #1: Take input from sales and users on which enhancements to do.. Path #2: As Lutz described in principle 1 - Look beyond today, Look beyond "current" requests and see what would be great useful products/features for the customer -- BEFORE the customer sees the need! Do both paths!!! Phil Obal |
IDII News
- ADVANCED Warehouse & Logistics RFP / RFI has been launched. 770 questions on warehouse & logistics software functionality.
- Catalyst (WMS, YMS, LMS) -introduces a warehouse simulator that provides users of Catalyst Warehouse
Management Systems with a tool for graphic,
real-time display of warehouse operations
through a desktop computer. Users can simulate the reconfiguration of
their warehouse layouts, equipment,
orders,
items, staffing methods and procedures,
and
they can immediately view the results.
- Catalyst (WMS, YMS, LMS) and SyVox Partner to Bring Voice Technology to
the Warehouse via Standard WMS. Catalyst will offer the SyVox RxP suite
of speech-based applications as part of the
company’s standard product offering, becoming the first WMS
Company to do so. Catalyst will integrate
the SyVox RxP solution in its Release 8.1
product providing its customers with a flexible
and economic alternative to traditional material
handling.
- Delfour Corporation (WMS) announces WarehouseASP.com. Delfour Corporation has been using this
model for years before the “ASP” name became
popular. Delfour has been providing many
companies its applications via a service
running directly out of the Delfour Data
Center, which is exactly what an ASP is -
Application Service Provider. Delfour is
announcing its new name for the Data Center
to reflect the ASP model.
- LIS (WMS, TMS, US/Europe,UK) publishes guide to effective Internet fulfillment. The guide, called the 'Best Practice Guide to Internet Fulfilment' has been developed for 'bricks and mortar'
companies who want to market and sell their
products over the web. The document is broken
into the following areas:
- The customer's interaction with the supply chain.
- Handling orders
- Accuracy and transparency
- Coping with excess demand
- Managing returns
The guide can be requested by emailing info@lis.co.uk or by faxing Sam Horner on 01628 532688.Website is www.lis-online.com.
- LIS now has a certified interface to SAP's
mySAP.com collaborative e-business platform. SAP has
awarded the accreditation for LIS'
Dispatcher-WMS
warehouse management system.
The real-time certified interface allows customers to use the advanced inventory control and warehouse management functionality of Dispatcher-WMS in conjunction with the enterprise-wide e-business functionality offered by mySAP.com.
- LIS launches Dispatcher-TMSLink, a transport integration module that manages
the communication between LIS' Dispatcher-WMS
warehouse management system and vehicle
routing,
scheduling and optimization systems.
Dispatcher-TMSLink automatically feeds orders received by Dispatcher-WMS into the transport management or routing and scheduling application. Real-time interfaces ensure that once orders are sorted into efficient delivery routes or delivery types, picking schedules can be sent directly to the operative's radio data terminal (RDT). Dispatcher-TMSLink can also automatically add late and urgent orders to a particular vehicle route without management intervention, re-organizing picking schedules up until the departure of the vehicle.
- Logility, Inc. (WMS, TMS, B2B, APS, CFPR,
Nasdaq: LGTY) announces Supply Planning. Supply Planning addresses business issues
concerning all aspects of sourcing and deploying
products and materials throughout the supply
chain to improve asset optimization by considering
manufacturing, transportation, inventory,
storage capacities, costs, and other operational
constraints when generating supply plans.
Supply Planning also offers an online exception management to determine deployment and sourcing
problems anywhere in the supply chain while
providing complete simulation capabilities
for contingency planning, profitability analysis,
sourcing and deployment issues, and many
other supply chain planning decisions. The
real-time alert functionality provided by Supply Planning's
Universal Exception Builder(TM) alerts users
to exceptions such as when resources are
over capacity, inventories fall below safety
stock levels and when customer orders cannot
be filled due to supply levels.
- Logility (WMS, TMS, B2B, APS, CFPR, Nasdaq:
LGTY) announced that ReturnBuy.com, a online resource handling reverse logistics
for e-Tailers and retailers, has selected Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) WarehousePRO(R) for its warehouse management system. Tompkins consulting group influenced decision. ReturnBuy offers effective, complete and
scaleable solution to help retailers
easily
handle returns, maintaining customer
satisfaction
and earning the customer's loyalty.
- McHugh Software (WMS, YMS, LMS) – Announces New Global Visibility Product “LENS” (Logistics Execution Nervous System, which provides real-time visibility to inventory, orders
and events throughout the supply chain. LENS will serve as the cornerstone of a suite
of new products from McHugh, including
components
for notifications and alerts, event
management
and supply chain analytics, that
will provide
the industry's first comprehensive
supply
chain command and control function.
LENS allows users to drill down to see specific data by such attributes as region, facility, part number or client, moving to increasing levels of granularity until the desired level of detail is reached. Data can be accessed directly in the application by logistics managers, customer service representatives, and even trading partners (of course, with password protection and access to only the information appropriate to that trading partner). LENS data can also easily be passed to a company's own web-based systems, such as order status.
- Manhattan Associates has signed an agreement to acquire Intrepa LLC for cash, notes and stock, which totals
$30 million. "Intrepa LLC's current technology, broad
solution footprint, deep domain expertise,
and an impressive client list were
key drivers
behind our decision to acquire Intrepa," said Richard Haddrill,
President of Manhattan. Intrepa has
expertise
in vertical markets such as health
care,
automotive, media/entertainment,
publishing
and industrial/wholesale. The combined
organization
will bring a broader solution offering
to
Intrepa's customer base of over 250
organizations
with in excess of 350 site installations.
This along with Manhattan Associates
customers
brings the combined total to over
750 customers
and 1,100 site installations across
11 vertical
markets.
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Neopost Logistics Systems (SMS, TMS) launching iLS.X (Internet Logistics Systems)
a Web-based logistics application that improves customer service and fulfillment
operations by allowing employees, customers
and business partners throughout an enterprise
to pre-ship packages at their desktops prior
to manifesting. iLS.X creates virtual, desktop
shipping rooms where users can rate shop,
enter addresses, carrier and service preferences,
store the information in a database, and
print barcodes which are then scanned by
the shipping room for multi-carrier manifesting
and delivery. Neopost can then integrate
the package data such as contents, quantity,
price, carrier, shipping rate and service,
customer, and delivery address with enterprise
packages such as customer relationship management
(CRM), warehousing management systems (WMS)
and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Neopost
Logistics Systems also provides international
shipping and guaranteed international landed
cost through its partnership with From2.com.
- Nordic Information Systems (WMS, ERP, VMI,
AS/400) – Announces that Returns Online has installed Nordic’s Returns
Management and Reverse Logistics to manage the automation of merchandise
returns processing with Returns Online’s
National Returns Centers. Returns Online is for those that want to
completely outsource product-returns
management
for brick-and-mortar, catalog and
online
retail companies. See www.returnsonline.com.
- Prophet 21 (ERP, Nasdaq: PXXI and PSDI (Nasdaq:
PSDI) announce an agreement to provide interconnectivity between their two trading
networks -- TradingPartnerConnect
and MRO.COM(TM). Through this strategic alliance, the two companies
will integrate PSDI's MAXIMO(R) Extended
Enterprise and the MRO.COM marketplace
with
TradingPartnerConnect is Prophet
21's digital
marketplace for the exchange of durable,
which is fully interoperable with
Prophet’s
21’s Acclaim and CommerceCenter.
This alliance provides our 2,000 distribution
customers with potential to sell
into PSDI's
large MAXIMO installed base. In addition,
our distributors can take their pre-existing
relationships with nearly 5,000 durable
goods
manufacturers to the MAXIMO installed
base."
- VERTEX Inc.(Nasdaq: VETX, WMS, TMS) Announces Stradivari WMS product. This WMS is a warehouse management system
for middle market distribution and warehouse
facilities.
- WebMethods (XML Middleware) delivers B2B adapters for use with JD EDWARD (ERP) Worldsoftware solution.
- WhereNet, a provider of supply-chain-visibility software for locating,
tracking and managing supply-chain
resources,
announced that FMC Corp., iVita Corp.,
Midgard
Information System Inc.(WMS), OMI
International
Inc.(WMS) and Syncata have joined the WhereNet Aware Alliance Program.
Quotes to Ponder
- "Delay not to seize the hour!" --Aeschylus
Association of Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) has created standards for Retail transactions in XML format. "By creating a standard names dictionary, ARTS and IXRetail is providing the retail industry a foundation for creating standard XML messages that can be universally interpreted," said Richard Mader, executive director of ARTS. "Visit http://www.nrf-arts.org for the ARTS standard.
Two new publications are now available though AIM web site http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/resources_for_rfid.asp)
The first is a magazine style book, Understanding RFID - A Guide to Radio Frequency Identification technologies and applications. Written by Prof. Anthony Furness, Visiting Professor in AIDC, University of Central England, UK, with an introduction by Alan Haberman, Chair ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31, the book is written in an easy to understand style that can rapidly bring one up to speed on the subject of RFID.
The second is a white paper, Frequency Characteristics of RFID Systems. This is the first edition and it includes information on 13,56 MHz, UHF, and 2450 MHz systems. The document is in PDF format.
www.inventoryops.com - articles and links related to inventory management and warehouse operations.
Scripture to Ponder
"A faithful man willl be richly blessed,
but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished." - Proverbs 28:20
Good Book
| "Computerized Shipping Systems: Increasing
Profit & Productivity Through Technology (New Millennium Edition)" |
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| Taylor, Mark A. | See reviews and more information on this book at Amazon.com |
Another Good Book
| "What To Look For In Warehouse Management System Software" |  |
| Obal, Philip | See reviews and more information on this book at Amazon.com |
Valuable Future Events - October
November 14-16 Frontline Solutions in Frankfurt. Visit http://www.frontlineexpo.com/euro/overview.asp to register.
November 28-30 SupplyWebExchange 2000 Conference and Exposition.
Hyatt Regency. Chicago. Retail System Alert
Group. 617-527-4626 or http://supplywebexchange.com.
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