Future-Proof Your Warehouse Operations With Modern Warehouse Management Systems
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Disconnected systems hinder decision-making. Without tight integration between WMS and systems like ERP, MES, and TMS, manufacturers face data silos and delays, leading to poor coordination across production, warehousing, and shipping.
Lack of visibility causes planning failures. When inventory data isn’t current or accurate, it leads to stockouts, overproduction, or delayed fulfillment – disrupting manufacturing flow and customer commitments.
Managing multiple sites is operationally inconsistent. With varying workflows, compliance rules, and visibility levels, global manufacturers face high IT complexity, data fragmentation, and inefficiencies across sites.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
CIOs must be deliberate in defining the organizational needs that drive their WMS transformation. Attempting to prioritize modernization for the sake of modernization will dilute impact, yet doing nothing under the guise of cost containment will leave you vulnerable. CIOs must build a roadmap that accounts for clear trade-offs and focused sequencing in line with what the business wants to achieve and overall resilience.
Impact and Result
A detailed methodology to prioritize business requirements for WMS solution selection.
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Establish Your Current State
- Call 1: Conduct current-state and IT satisfaction surveys.
- Call 2: Document requirements and objectives.
Guided Implementation 2: Assess Capability Maturity and Satisfaction
- Call 1: Review heat map and capability quadrant to identify focus areas.
Guided Implementation 3: Analyze Gaps and Prioritize Needs
- Call 1: Understand potential improvement actions.
- Call 2: Document planned IT improvement actions.
Guided Implementation 4: Define Actions and Opportunities
- Call 1: Discuss and confirm implementation considerations.
Guided Implementation 5: Design Modernization Roadmap
- Call 1: Discuss initiative prioritization.
- Call 2: Review and finalize roadmap.
Contributors
- Jasmine Choi, Komstadt Systems
- Christopher Micena, EVS
- Evan McGrath, EVS
- Nivedha Ganesh, DHL
- Steve Schmidt, Senior Managing Partner, Info-Tech Research Group
- 2 Anonymous contributors