The Smart Warehouse With Dan Gilmore

Dan Gilmore and Joe Lynch discuss The Smart Warehouse. Dan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Softeon, a global provider of innovative supply chain solutions that delivers supply chain success – every time.

About Dan Gilmore

Dan Gilmore is a recognized thought leader in WMS, with experience prior to his role at Softeon as the founder of Supply Chain Digest, CMO at RedPrairie (now BlueYonder) and as lead WMS analyst at META Group (later acquired by Gartner). Earlier in his career, he led the implementation of two major WMS projects for Forte Industries.

About Softeon

Softeon’s track record of 100% success spans 20+ years and proof points at more than 125 supply chain performance leaders, including USP Supply Chain Solution, Sears Home Services, Duluth Trading Co., ConMed, DoItBest, The Honest Company, Casey’s Stores, Sony, Lenovo, Saddlecreek Logistics, Peter Millar and many more. Our customer base ranges from Fortune 50 companies to medium sized businesses and logistics service providers. Our extremely broad suite of supply chain solutions – provided on a single, integrated services-based technology platform – has three anchors: the Softeon Warehouse Management System (WMS), Warehouse Execution System (WES), and Distributed Order Management (DOM) system

Key Takeaways: Understanding WMS in the Cloud

In the podcast interview, Joe Lynch and Dan Gilmore discuss some of the big trends impacting warehouses, e-commerce, and retail. From labor shortages to automation, Dan enlightens on the benefits of WMS and WES for any business.
Dan Gilmore is the CMO of Softeon, a global provider of innovative supply chain solutions that delivers supply chain success – every time.
Gartner research has a very favorable opinion of Softeon’s WMS.
Check out the research here: Gartner Critical Capabilities for Warehouse Management Systems 2022
Warehouse execution systems help to manage the flow of work and resource utilization. Softeon’s system is able to utilize flow more consistently over a block of time.
The breakthrough that Softeon has had is that WES, while it has its roots in that level loading of the automation and better utilization there, the WES works extremely well even in non-automated facilities or lightly automated facilities.
A Softeon customer saw 50% productivity gain from implementing warehouse execution systems.
Warehouse management systems offered by Softeon are going to reduce labor costs and the need for automation.
Softeon’s broad suite of supply chain solutions improve customer’s operations and enhance their own customer’s satisfaction and experience.
Softeon’s three flagship products are 1.) Warehouse Management System (WMS), 2.) Warehouse Execution System (WES) and 3.) Distributed Order Management (DOM) System – solutions increasingly deployed together.
Many of the world’s best supply chains are powered by Softeon, including UPS Supply Chain Services, Sears Home Services, Duluth Trading Co., Saddlecreek Logistics, Lenovo, The Honest Company, Casey’s General Stores, Denso, Suncast, Sony, Universal Music Group, Optum Rx and many more.