Inside the Business Applications Network Cloud are the business systems that run your Supply Chain. They include systems to manage inventory, manufacturing, purchase orders, manufacturing orders, transfer orders, sales orders, warehouse management systems, financials, transportation, delivery and time reporting/payroll. These applications are tightly integrated into each other directly or indirectly. Each application, with multiple integration points, is impacted by any change to another application inside the cloud. This is a typical Business Applications Network Cloud. It is complex and inflexible. Making a change to, or inside of, the cloud is very risky and costly. This is known as Integration Risk.
Your company is under constant pressure to do more with less. You know technology can facilitate achieving that goal but operations aren’t improving fast enough, if at all.
Why?
Because the computer systems you already have in place to solve yesterday's problems are now causing the problems of today, and into the foreseeable future. These powerful systems are now causing the problem because of how they were built: they are complex, scalable, data-rich applications that are incredibly rigid and do not accommodate change. As a result, you are forced into modifying or replacing those applications, but know you cannot without Integration Risk.
Regardless of your company’s IT investment over the past decade, and whether you are now running brand-new software or old legacy applications, the fear of Integration Risk is crippling your company. More often than not, the head of your IT department turns pale as you discuss your desire to implement a new business requirement. So what happens? The IT department is doing everything it can in this more-with-less-world, but their hands are tied by your business systems and your requirement becomes a request that never seems to get done as budgets and schedules constantly slip.
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ARC Reports: “…. upgrades were historically so costly and time consuming, that users refused to take advantage of such opportunities. Instead, they would keep a warehouse management system (WMS) for 10 years or more and when they had decided the WMS no longer fit their needs they would begin the process of selecting a new system….. users complain that highly functional traditional solutions lack flexibility in supporting ongoing change.” ARC Insights
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Sept. 21, 2006
“Packaged applications…by default cannot deliver on innovative business processes. The applications can only implement those processes that customers have asked the vendor to develop (this is the nature of how software matures). By the time a capability is available in a product, the process is a best practice, not an innovation.”
The 2005 AMR Research Warehouse Management System Selection Guide by Greg Aimi, Bob Locke, and Joe Souza