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Though Latin America is still playing catch-up when it comes to supply chain technology, it will progress quickly over the next few years if vendors can avoid some potential roadblocks.
For years, cost and technical issues have kept many smaller companies out of the warehouse management systems market. But the emergence of hosted warehouse systems could change all that.
At the Container Store's DC, there's no need for bosses to ride herd over work crews. Performance scores displayed on a giant electronic scoreboard let workers pace themselves throughout the day.
You no longer have to rely on your workers for that information. Today's sophisticated software can tell you everything you want to know about your staffers' productivity.
Programming advances may soon allow you to borrow bits and pieces of different systems to develop a custom supply chain application, all at a modest cost.
You no longer have to be a Wal-Mart to afford supply chain execution (SCE) systems. Even small companies can trade in their old paper-based systems for these powerful hypernetworked tools.