Guest Column: Knowing When a WMS or WCS Is Right for Your Company
Companies moving product in and out of a DC or warehouse must understanding the differences between warehouse management and warehouse control systems or risk a distinct disadvantage
- Your current system is inefficient and takes too long to get a product out the door.
- You're growing fast and can't handle the volume, especially during peak time.
- Your conveyor system has cartons everywhere, but going nowhere.
- You're creating back orders, even though the product is in stock.
- You're shipping products to the wrong place.
- It's getting too expensive to keep modifying your WMS system.
- More than $50 million in sales.
- A warehouse larger than 100,000 square feet.
- A conveyor system with multiple sortation points.
- An average of four SKUs per order.
- Greater than 1,000 orders per day.
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