Installing Warehouse Librarian has enabled us to get our distribution centers up and running very quickly. We rely on Warehouse Librarian to manage our three high volume distribution centers and our five regional distribution centers.
Steven R. Gartner Vice President, Logistics and Distribution
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We're going to present a new video as part of our participation in the ProMat show in Chicago this week... Read More »
We're going to present a new video as part of our participation in the ProMat show in Chicago this week...
Perhaps it is because I have a window seat this trip, something that has become an oddity for me over the last many years. Perhaps it's that I haven't flown in a few months. I don't know. As I look out at the limb of the earth, across these barren northern scapes as we near Chicago... Read More »
Perhaps it is because I have a window seat this trip, something that has become an oddity for me over the last many years. Perhaps it's that I haven't flown in a few months. I don't know.
As I look out at the limb of the earth, across these barren northern scapes as we near Chicago...
It has become perhaps de riguer in the last few years to have some Requests for Proposal or some IT departments talk to us about the deployment of 'thin clients'. Read More »
It has become perhaps de riguer in the last few years to have some Requests for Proposal or some IT departments talk to us about the deployment of 'thin clients'.
In his famous short story "The Things They Carried", writer Tim O'Brien chronicles the travail of American soldiers in Vietnam. In a litany that's often like an inventory list, he tells us that the lieutenant carries letters, two photographs and a smooth stone from his girlfriend... Read More »
In his famous short story "The Things They Carried", writer Tim O'Brien chronicles the travail of American soldiers in Vietnam. In a litany that's often like an inventory list, he tells us that the lieutenant carries letters, two photographs and a smooth stone from his girlfriend...
There's a new phrase in economic circles: the new normal. This noetic turn was recently coined by Mohammad El-Erian, the Chief Executive at Pimco. Because of who he is and because of who Pimco is, and as a result of the earthshaking events of last year, everyone seems to be talking about it. Read More »
There's a new phrase in economic circles: the new normal. This noetic turn was recently coined by Mohammad El-Erian, the Chief Executive at Pimco. Because of who he is and because of who Pimco is, and as a result of the earthshaking events of last year, everyone seems to be talking about it.
We're at the SCOPE west supply chain event this week in Las Vegas. The format of the trade show aspect is a new experience for us. Our days are filled with short appointments with potential clients that have some interest in taking a look at us. We have 42 scheduled appointments in two days! Read More »
We're at the SCOPE west supply chain event this week in Las Vegas. The format of the trade show aspect is a new experience for us. Our days are filled with short appointments with potential clients that have some interest in taking a look at us. We have 42 scheduled appointments in two days!
SCdigest continues the saga of the growing resistance to SKU proliferation in its recent Will Large Retailers Help Manufacturers Drive Out Supply Chain Complexity? Once again we get exemplars of proliferation and the economic impact such proliferation has on corporate performance and profitability. Read More »
SCdigest continues the saga of the growing resistance to SKU proliferation in its recent Will Large Retailers Help Manufacturers Drive Out Supply Chain Complexity? Once again we get exemplars of proliferation and the economic impact such proliferation has on corporate performance and profitability.
We've completed a fairly informal survey among several hundred prospects over the last few months. We're getting a consistent message from them: Revenue is flat or down, but labor costs are up. Of course, we ask them "Why?" The answers coincide with the market dynamics in supply chain execution that we've been tracking for years. Companies are tightening inventory levels. So they are ordering less, more frequently. In terms of supply chain execution, they may be picking less orders but they are performing more receipts and executing more put aways. In some cases, especially in wholesale distribution, their customers are ordering less - but more frequently. This drives o ... Read More »
We've completed a fairly informal survey among several hundred prospects over the last few months. We're getting a consistent message from them: Revenue is flat or down, but labor costs are up.
Of course, we ask them "Why?"
The answers coincide with the market dynamics in supply chain execution that we've been tracking for years. Companies are tightening inventory levels. So they are ordering less, more frequently. In terms of supply chain execution, they may be picking less orders but they are performing more receipts and executing more put aways. In some cases, especially in wholesale distribution, their customers are ordering less - but more frequently. This drives o ...
We've been fortunate to get some good press coverage for our Warehouse Librarian SaaSTM product in the press since our ProMat announcement last month. Supply and Demand Chain Executive provided a good overview of our technology positioning. Read More »
We've been fortunate to get some good press coverage for our Warehouse Librarian SaaSTM product in the press since our ProMat announcement last month.
Supply and Demand Chain Executive provided a good overview of our technology positioning.
One of our oldest (and we mean in calendar time using our product suite, not the spry spring chicken interviewed) customers, Bill DeWitt of Boyds Coffee, was interviewed in Purchasing Online this month. It's a great story, one that is now sixteen years in the telling and still going strong. We have always been proud to be of support to Boyds Coffee Company, even before we got famous overnight...
