Integrating systems, end-to-end: for the best productivity, data and information must flow seamlessly among supply chain systems. Achieving this can be a challenge when you have multiple programs from multiple vendors. But there are solutions.(Warehouse Networks)

Material Handling Management,  September, 2004  by Langnau, Leslie

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To achieve the breadth and functionality needed in supply chain systems, material handlers have usually selected individual "best-of-breed" solutions and attempted to network, or integrate them. "Over the last few years, best-of-breed programs were the only way to go," says Dave Adams, vice president of product development, Irista.

This solution, though, involves lots of programming, cost and effort before it eventually works. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "With all the information available, the challenge has been to seamlessly connect warehouse ...

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