ERP giant into the logistics industry
When you are thinking about who will be the best software provider of logistics or supply chain management, you will first think of it will not be SAP, Oracle or J.D.edwards. Although, many experts have predicted these large ERP vendors will become the largest supplier of logistics and supply chain management software. With the gradual saturation of the EPR system market, large ERP software providers naturally turn their gaze to the supply chain market, they think this is the natural extension of its original market. It should be pointed out that their permeation direction is a warehouse management system and a transportation management system. Moreover, even in the manufacturing analysis, ERP manufacturers are also behind the manufacturer of transport management system manufacturers, Glog and Redprairie's transportation management system than Manhattan and EXE. But we have to admit that the ERP manufacturer is trying to catch up, and it is indeed very fast, so Forrester predict that most supply chain markets in 2008 will belong to SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. From the AMR investigation company analysis, we will clearly see that in recent years, ERP manufacturers maintain a strong rise in sales or market share. They really will replace the supply chain software suppliers fully occupied. What about this market?
The goal of ERP giants ... Logistics is undoubted, ERP manufacturers spend more strength in the supply chain software market in the past two years, such as SAP, Oracle and other companies recently introduced or strengthen their supply chain management Product SAP continuously strengthens the product products, their next-generation products will use the contents of the optimized route schedule and vehicle scheduling optimization as the basic functional module of ERP. In Oracle, their goal is to combine the company's warehouse management system with the shipping management system and transportation management system. They even wanted to release products in the near future. If the product can be launched, Oracle will provide a varied product in the field of logistics. SAP is considered to get more market share in this market. Although SAP and Oracle have achieved certain success in supply chain products, it is because SAP is more excellent in supply chain products than Oracle. Not only ORACLE and SAP ERP producers provide logistics products, in fact, J.D.E, Baan, PeopleSoft have launched logistics products for many years to market, and they also hope to explore the potential of logistics software markets. It is said that each manufacturer is different from the purpose of penetration to the logistics market. As an example, as an example, the inventory control is huge in the product provided by inventory control, and they have established an inventory control system. These include modules of warehouse management recorded in 1995 and the transportation management module joined in 1998. Now the two modules can be combined into the financial management system of j.d.e. BAAN also puts a lot in the planning schedule of the supply chain, and they involved in this market by research on the management of supply chain management last year. PeopleSoft starts in logistics products for warehouse management software two years ago, which includes orders management systems, subscription systems, and modules in inventory management systems. At the same time, Microsoft began to provide a warehouse management system and transportation management system to raise most ERP manufacturers. Microsoft is now mainly positioned in the mid-range market (usually no more than $ 2.5 million in an annual turnover, so he will not face the ERP giants. But this situation will change in the future, because analysts believe that Microsoft does not stop in such a small field and will expand to larger fields. Wolf is coming? There is no doubt that logistics software vendors do not want to see ERP giants to invade their original market. They think that ERP vendors are only sold to customers who have purchased ERP software through developing logistics use software, and new profits are obtained by extending their business. PeopleSoft does not think so, they don't want to expand the competition opposite the logistics software, just want to join the necessary transportation modules, handle blocking modules, and carrier modules in the system, but they don't build a complete transportation management system as Glog. . But not every supplier thinks so, it is said that Oracle hopes to develop a well-resolved product that can solve a large number of distribution business regardless of the objective situation, large ERP has their advantage over professional logistics software companies. As they have thousands of software installations, they have a wide range of customer base. In fact, their extension in logistics involves new customers, they are often large quantities to sell new products to old customers. More convenient with existing ERP systems will be a problem that customers are very interested in the problem, because most customers have put a lot in ERP systems, they would rather guarantee the stability of the system without because software docking to find logistics software Business. But logistics software companies don't think so, because they think that ERP giants believe that it is easy to docking with logistics software is wrong.
