I recently did a guest host with an old Gartner Group associate and friend of mine, Vinnie Mirchandani. Vinnie was an established Research Director at Gartner when I joined as the the first Research Director to dig into the Warehouse Management System (WMS) market place and vet the different vendors and articulate what this market was all about. He used to be one of my internal reviewed and give me a hard time with what I wrote (although I must admit he was easier than Chris Jones or, for that matter, Eric Keller).
The gist of the post I wrote from Vinnie was a then versus now look at warehouse management systems (The Real Deal: Thomas Ryan on the evolution of Warehouse Management Systems ). Please jump over to his site “Deal Architect” and review his other posts. Vinnie is also an author with two books to his credit now in addition to his blogging. Please check out is new book, The New Technology Elite.
More and more people are nienedg a customized solution for their management needs whether it be inventory, asset, quote, personnel or sales management, everyone wants a custom solution that they can make their own. For mobile tracking like you talked about here, new innovations in allow a fully functional computer to be held in the palm of your hand (smaller if you only need certain features). Their low power consumption, low heat output, and ruggedness make jobs like this much more efficient and customizable.
Tom, thank you for the guest post. Also glad I could quote you about UPS in my new book!