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May 14, 2009

Supply chain software: How to run an ROI-based WMS selection process

Business is good at PSS World Medical, and that growth was creating operational challenges

Supply chain software: How to run an ROI-based WMS selection process

By Bob Trebilcock
Modern Materials Handling, May 14, 2009

If you’re like me, you’re tired of talking about how bad business is. That’s why it was great to talk the other day with Harlan Mason, vice president of shared operations for PSS World Medical, a distributor of medical products and pharmaceuticals to medical offices with about $2 billion a year in revenue.

Mason was preparing to deliver a presentation on how to do an ROI-based WMS selection process at RedShift, RedPrairie’s annual user conference held this year in San Antonio. PSS World Medical has a high level problem most of us would love to tackle: What kind of WMS system can help a company accommodate an 8.5- to- 9.5% annual growth rate? That’s right: Business is good at PSS World Medical, and that growth was creating operational challenges.

“We were running paper-based warehouses,” Mason said. “Based on our revenue growth, the business had become much more complex, and it was taking an employee in the warehouse a long time to get up to speed.”   Read more

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