ARC Advisory Group

Equipment uptime and diagnostics among top-use scenarios, but experts agree that it is still early days for IoT adoption.

The fastest growing enterprise application market is on track to continue its double-digit growth trend over the next 12 months. Here are eight key trends that supply chain software analysts say are shaping the TMS landscape­.

The future was on display in Atlanta.

A mature market by supply chain software standards, warehouse management systems continue to play a prominent role in the ever-changing shipping and distribution environment. Here are five market drivers that are sure to keep usage on the rise.

The 2013 holiday season highlighted the importance of warehousing, distribution and materials handling processes. With Modex around the corner, five thought leaders take stock of what may lie ahead for our industry and our customers.

Top supply chain software analysts assess growth in the transportation management systems (TMS) market, highlight emerging trends in adoption, and predict the future of this highly beneficial, yet consistently underused application.

With so many really good technology suppliers out there today and the vast (and seemingly ever-expanding) palette of technologies available to choose from, how can manufacturers and other industrial organizations make informed, impartial, factbased technology supplier selection decisions?

Our research into the TMS market shows that this is one of the fastest growing of enterprise software markets; clearly many companies are going through the complex and time consuming TMS supplier selection process. Complexities are increased because there are fundamentally different paths, with different pros and cons, that companies can go down.

An increasing number of logistics managers are using labor management systems to monitor productivity, identify bottlenecks, and optimize the workforce. Here’s how they’re getting it done.

Google Glass is Google’s project to create augmented reality glasses. Google Glass is being designed for consumers, but the first clear business application may occur in warehouses.

Would that which we call a WCS by any other name still be a WCS?

Today’s warehouse management systems come with sophisticated rules and logic, real-time seamless integration to aligned business applications, and effortless interfaces to automated equipment and mobile technology. But why are we still not putting these capabilities to work?

Buoyed by emerging market growth, demand for add-on functionalities, and its certain move to the cloud, the warehouse management systems market is posting double-digit growth. But is this just a post-recession bounce?

A closer look at what wireless technology is being adopted, how it’s being used, and what benefits logistics professionals are deriving from their mobile investments either inside the four walls or on the road.

In its report, entitled “Warehouse Management Systems Worldwide Outlook,” ARC noted that WMS revenues for add-on functionality like labor management systems and warehouse analytics have been growing at impressive rates.