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RedPrairie SaaS WMS RFP Template

Cloud WMS is a new approach to Enterprise computing. It will enable companies to move away from excel, custom databases and legacy WMS technologies to create better working relationships between supplier and customer. The decision to manage inventory in the cloud can be strategic initiative for your company’s future supply chain success. The 2012 WMS RFP Template is an important tool that empowers you to objectively determine requirements and can help you select a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) WMS vendor. This RFP template includes detailed best practices from companies and logistic professionals who have implemented both Tier I and SaaS WMS.

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The Ultimate Decision separator

Few supply chain decisions impact your company’s day-to-day business, financial health, and customer relations more than selecting and implementing a warehouse management system (WMS). The milliondollar question is whether to choose your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system’s warehouse module, or a specialized, best of breed WMS.

Yard Management Systems separator

This whitepaper’s objective is to help industry professionals understand the basics of yard management and appointment scheduling systems. Yard Management Systems are software applications that manage trucking activity incoming to and within an industrial site such as a distribution center, production campus, or container terminal.

Moving from Excel to a Warehouse Management System separator

Many manufacturers, distributors and retailers operate their warehouses using the popular spreadsheet application Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, Excel is not always well suited for every purpose. A better solution is to entrust the management of your warehouse to a warehouse management system (WMS). A WMS is specially designed for the managing warehouses and features a number of essential industry best practices.

How can you control your distribution costs? separator

Many distributors and wholesalers spend their time concentrating on achieving a better turnover. But it is just as important for them to reduce their distribution costs. That’s right – what is the point of generating a better turnover if a large part of it is eaten up by high operating overheads? It is also becoming increasingly important to keep tight controls on costs…

Understanding Dock Scheduling separator

This whitepaper’s objective is to help industry professionals understand the basics of dock scheduling, supported by real industry case studies. If you haven’t heard much about dock scheduling systems, it may be that, compared to warehouse and transportation management systems (WMS & TMS), dock scheduling is the poor cousin in the family of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems. Nonetheless, it is still an essential part of your business, and if not properly addressed, can be very costly to your operation. We’ll address the issues, present numerous examples taken from various industries and provide a roadmap towards a solution.