News Articles
November 15, 2011
Warehouse and Workforce Management Technology Initiatives
Food Manufacturing - By Dawn Andre, Director of CPG industry marketing, RedPrairie
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies traditionally implement warehouse management (WMS) and workforce management (WFM) solutions in silos. In doing so, they risk not being able to realize the full benefits that can be achieved if they roll them out as one integrated system.
So why implement these solutions in tandem? There are several reasons, starting with a better return on investment (ROI) and the elimination of costly excess IT infrastructure and independent testing that would be required for separate implementations. Throw in pronounced improvements in change management, productivity, worker safety and even product recalls, and the case for taking an integrated approach makes even more fiscal and operational sense across the CPG enterprise. Read more
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