By aditya.agarkar on February 13, 2008 6:24 PM
Modern Material Handling's latest issue has an excellent article on WMS Selection (Hat Tip to Bill Reilly for forwarding the link). The seven questions covered by Bob Trebilcock in this article is a good starting point and should provide a lot of clarity to anyone in the market for WMS. From an Oracle WMS perspective the very first question is the most relevant:
Can you get WMS functionality from your ERP system? If you have Oracle Applications installed, can you prove that Oracle WMS won't meet your needs?
What this means is that if you are an Oracle Application customer, you need to have a pretty good reason why Oracle WMS should not be chosen for your warehouse needs. You need to consider the savings from an integrated WMS like Oracle vs the incremental benefits from a 3rd party WMS. How can that be done? WMS Solution Factory has all the tools!
Take a look at the Integrated WMS value calculator at the WMS solution Factory. Essentially you need to compare the savings from an integrated business like Oracle WMS vs the incremental operational benefits from a bolt-on WMS (if at all they do exist). You can use the WMS value calculator at the WMS solution factory to see if the additional benefits are justified.
Besides the 7 questions, the following points are also important:
What are you doing now?
What are you doing about your current WMS needs? This is important if
you want to reuse your existing IT assets and want to limit the
learning curve. If your current WMS needs are causing operational
issues, the time available to select a WMS is fairly limited.
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You need to have a clear idea about your motivation for a new WMS. An
important aspect of WMS selection is to identify the long term goals
and objective behind new WMS implementation. A WMS implementation is capital intensive and once deployed not easy to switch. Questions to be asked:
How is the future growth
impact warehouse operations? Is the WMS vendor financially viable? Is the WMS vendor capable to support your WMS needs for the long term?
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How do you want to get there?
If the number of WMS vendors seem bewildering, here is a suggestion:
While a WMS is important, operational success in your warehouse and WMS
deployment has less to do with the software and more to do with how its
managed. A clear plan for success is important. I have blogged about it
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By aditya.agarkar on February 28, 2008 4:03 PM
Wavelink recently announced that the availability of voice solution that leverage Oracle's mobility platform for Oracle's Warehouse Management. With this announcement Wavelink becomes the latest partner to support voice mobility solution on Oracle WMS platform.
Through this agreement, Wavelink is providing Speakeasy, with its unique speech-to-text and text-to-speech capability, as a front end to Oracle's supply chain execution suite of products including Oracle Warehouse Management and Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications. This allows customers to use voice commands for hands-free data collection, providing increased data accuracy and improved employee productivity.
With Speakeasy, customers don't need to worry about acquiring voice-specific mobile devices or modifying their applications said Lamar Van Wagenen, Wavelink president and COO. Essentially, Wavelink enables companies to easily add voice capabilities to their existing applications without all the hurdles and additional costs that have hindered the adoption of voice solutions in the past.
Wavelink Speakeasy delivers voice-driven data collection into existing host connectivity applications to increase workforce productivity and fully leverage mobile applications and devices. Administrators can easily add voice to their emulation applications without revising the host application or purchasing additional hardware and software. Speakeasy provides high-quality speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality and supports multiple languages out of the box.
The wavelink solution involves "voice to speech" and "speech to voice" transformation on the hand held device and therefore does not require a voice middleware or any other supporting infrastructure. For this reason its cost effective and easy to deploy.
For more details about this solution contact Daio Syngkon
By aditya.agarkar on February 29, 2008 1:47 AM
Wavelink recently announced the availability of voice solution that leverages Oracle's Warehouse Management. With this announcement Wavelink becomes the latest partner to support voice mobility solution on Oracle WMS platform.
"Through this agreement, Wavelink is providing Speakeasy, with its unique speech-to-text and text-to-speech capability, as a front end to Oracle's supply chain execution suite of products including Oracle Warehouse Management and Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications. This allows customers to use voice commands for hands-free data collection, providing increased data accuracy and improved employee productivity.
With Speakeasy, customers don't need to worry about acquiring voice-specific mobile devices or modifying their applications said Lamar Van Wagenen, Wavelink president and COO. Essentially, Wavelink enables companies to easily add voice capabilities to their existing applications without all the hurdles and additional costs that have hindered the adoption of voice solutions in the past.
Wavelink Speakeasy delivers voice-driven data collection into existing host connectivity applications to increase workforce productivity and fully leverage mobile applications and devices. Administrators can easily add voice to their emulation applications without revising the host application or purchasing additional hardware and software. Speakeasy provides high-quality speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality and supports multiple languages out of the box."
The Wavelink solution involves "text to speech" and "speech to text" transformation on the hand held device and therefore does not require a voice middleware or any other supporting infrastructure. For this reason its cost effective and easy to deploy.
For more details about this solution contact Daio Syngkon
