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Other Voices: Lessons from your NFL

October 23, 2012 - MMH Content

Editor's Notice: The following column by Throw Fuerst, overseer of product strategy in HighJump Application, is part of Modern's Various other Voices line. The series, published in Wednesdays, features ideas, views and observations from end users, analysts, devices integraters and OEMs. Click on the link to learn about submitting a column for consideration.

*** *** ** We all pro footy fans had a hard time this year watching the replacement refs miss calls, lose track of the ball and generally clutter their way through Sept. Thankfully, that mess is finished and the specialist refs happen to be back to grab the bits and get the season jogging again. Together with the experts in control, we can end up being confident that games will be called more accurately, and the trust in the NFL have been restored.

The debacle at the start of the season is like what corporations deal with after they try to get simply by with an obsolete stockroom management system (WMS). Implementing a patchwork of solutions may well hold the program together and maintain operations going, but it can clumsy to work with, does not provide you with the visibility it is advisable to accurately know what's going on and cannot be a team player while using rest of the operations' devices. In the end, this uncertainty begins to call to question the business's standing. Although the miscuglio of solutions may seem to be cheaper, it will likely only cost your company more us dollars in the long-run thanks to inefficient functionality upgrades that no longer address your specific industry demands, lost period spent on fresh coding and workflow disturbances, and your industry’s good brand.

Instead, consider scrapping your aged system altogether and putting in a flexible, flexible WMS with the visibility, checking and update capabilities to grow together with your business and encourage confidence in...