According to a report from Aberdeen Research (www.aberdeen.com ), nearly half of companies running a warehouse management system (WMS) have a version that's at least 5 years old. “Best in class” companies, however, are almost three times more likely
“Companies using outdated versions of a WMS can't take advantage of new functionality in areas like slotting, labor management or speech recognition,” the authors observe. “Furthermore, they may be operating with a system that does not support their own changing business process.”