Development of Cloud Computing for the Warehouse
May 4, 2014
Grazed from SupplyChain24x7. Author: Roberto Michel.
For all of the hype about cloud computing in recent years, when it comes to the cloud for deploying supply chain execution (SCE) software such as warehouse management system (WMS) solutions, the numbers tell a pretty modest story. While some other enterprise software categories such as customer relationship management (CRM) have seen cloud solutions catch on in a significant way, the SCE segment lags behind.
For instance, cloud-based WMS sales in 2013 only accounted for about 8 percent of the WMS market, according to Chad Eschinger, an analyst with Gartner Research. By comparison, Gartner estimates that 45 percent of the CRM market was cloud-based in 2013, while the overall supply chain management software market was 21 percent cloud in 2013…
“Cloud adoption for warehouse management is pretty nascent today,” says Eschinger. “We haven’t seen a huge onslaught of activity. There are some vendors winning deals out there, but I would call many of these less sophisticated warehouse environments.”…
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