Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

Making the Warehouse Part of the Team Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system suppliers are known for offering tightly integrated software suites for back-office functions like order management and financials, but until fairly recently, they haven’t been known as leading vendors of warehouse management system (WMS) software.  That has changed, however, as the biggest ERP vendors have steadily built up their WMS and other supply chain execution (SCE) software offerings and sales. Now, not only do the biggest ERP vendors who often sell to large enterprises offer advanced WMS, but a few industry specific vendors like The Systems House, Inc. that focus on small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are also enhancing WMS. That’s quite a change from the WMS capability SME-focused ERP vendors used to offer, says Dwight Klappich, a research vice president with Gartner. Until relatively recently, WMS modules from SME-focused ERP vendors tended to be little more than “bin locating systems” ...

It's happened to many of us , you get that new mac book or that Ipad you won at the trade show you attended , and you get back to the office only to discover your business applications just don't work the same way. The learning curve is too great and suddenly this new amazing tool is delegated to email and watching video's.  You also might just have those folks in the office who want to use a mac or came out of college attached to their Apple products. Or if you hire computer science guys, their Linux workstations.  But fear not with the knowledge from today's post we will give you a couple of quick easy and inexpensive ways where you can un-tether from the heavy laptop or desktop and still have access to all your important business applications like MDS-Nx.  The simplest is just to install and or use remote desktop assuming you have a terminal server or windows pc sitting in your office somewhere.  As you'd expect, you can control pretty much everything on your Win...

Being from the east east disagreement and challenges are normal and standard parts of the day. Without them we have a hard time with innovation , progress and generally getting things done. And while not all discussions end acrimoniously, too many of them do. While today's post is more related to management and sales then strictly to supply chain, It's all to often that supply chain partners become supply chain adversaries. And in many instances it is because of a disagreement.  Where disagreement becomes unhealthy is when it's based on mix-ups and misunderstandings. In these situations, it becomes a poison that threatens to destroy teams, business and personal relationships and your company. When this happens, it seems that statements which sound perfectly reasonable, rational and right when voiced, get lost in translation by the time the other person hears them. The resulting argument is based on an ever-widening gap of opinion, cross-purposes, and polarization of views -...