Warehouse Management Systems are extending their functionality out along the supply chain, both upstream and downstream, to include features that support collaboration. In this they are
increasingly competing with enterprise systems, which are trying to build specialization in warehouse management. WMS’s have an advantage in that they are already connected to financial systems and already hold information that is important to supply chain visibility and execution systems. The enterprise systems have advantages where they can grow out of a manufacturing enterprise, especially if the manufactured product is an important, high-value item.
As WMS’s grow out along the supply chain it is natural that the WMS providers become global, pulled by the supply chains they hope to manage. The global WMS providers have a big advantage when selling to multinational companies, who can then standardize their WMS operations around the world.
At the time of this writing, there are hundreds if not thousands of WMS vendors in the world but only a few companies with significant global presence.
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4.5 供应链执行系统
WMS正在沿着供应链的上/下游扩展其功能,以包括支持供应链协作,因此将会与那些正在内部构建其仓库管理的企业系统产生竞争。相对那些系统来说,WMS具有已与财务系统连通、有对供应链可见性和执行都非常重要的信息的优势。而企业系统具有从制造企业发展出来的优势,特别是当制造出的是重要的、高价值的产品时。
随着WMS在供应链上的发展,受到希望他们管理的供应链拉动,WMS供应商自然也会成为全球性的。全球性的WMS供应商在向跨国公司销其产品时具有很大的优势,这些跨国公司可以在全球范围内标准化其WMS的运营。
在撰写本文时,世界上有成百上千的WMS供应商,但只有少数公司具有重要的全球性。
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