In many companies, the battle still rages when choosing a new Warehouse Management System between the WMS modules of ERP providers (SAP, Oracle), and "Best-of-Breed" solutions, such as those offered from Manhattan Associates, HighJump Software, RedPrairie, CDC Software/Catalyst, Softeon, and others.

The situation is then further complicated by more hybrid situations, such as when an ERP vendor such as Infor acquires several Best-of-Breed WMS system vendors itself.

Both sides, of course, claim the advantage, and for now SCDigest believes we are are seeing a somewhat stable market situation, with the shares of new WMS deals for each side remaining about the same over the past two years.

So, what are the claimed advantages of each side? The graphic below was taken from the most recent edition of The SCDigest Letter, our monthly hardcopy newsletter focused on a single topic each month (click here to subscribe). The most recent issue focused on Warehouse Management Systems - a pdf version of this issue is available at our related WMS Resource page, where you will also find other WMS articles, expert columns, tools, vendor information, and more.

The interesting thing, of course, as several readers have already noted, is that both sides claim lower total cost of ownership. Whose correct? We'd like your opinion at the Feedback button below.

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