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I wanted to send a holiday greeting, but it is difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday…
The Most Significant Wave
A lot can be said about warehouse management and in that context also wave management. Companies look for WMS mainly because they want to improve labor productivity. One important method is to apply wave management which, at a high level, is about collecting many small pieces of work which are grouped together in such a way that the work can be optimized in terms of labor and time, thus increasing productivity. Since it is a batch-oriented approach, how can it be done without negatively affecting available-to-promise (ATP) and the needs for an agile, real-time operation?
The Cloud is SaaS is ASP is Managed Hosting is Service Bureau?
In the beginning, computers were very expensive. Only big companies could afford them. That was the breeding ground for Service Bureaus. The Service Bureau owned a computer and a software package, typically a financial one. It then offered financial services, based on computer time sharing and terminal access. This made up a centralized computer solution for e.g. accounting available at affordable prices, because many companies could share the total cost. Service Bureaus were common in the 70s, before the PC and the Macintosh changed the rules. Or rather, created a temporary break of two decades in the trend of hiring IT services.
