Logistics managers are constantly looking to solve a unique set of challenges that threaten to disrupt the flow of their supply chains. Any disruption in the supply chain, however minor, can cause product shipments and other warehouse operations to come to a halt.
It is interesting to understand how different the thought process is around selecting and implementing a pubic cloud solution, compared to private or on-premise.
Let me start this missive with a history lesson. Once-upon-a-time there was just Shank’s Pony for moving stuff around. Some clever person then invented the cart and this was easier.
Mr. Bill was bored. Bored, bored, bored. He was so bored that he thought he would have a wander down to the shops for a mooch around. Mr. Bill hates shopping so that just shows how dreadfully bored he was.
I was talking with my brother-in-law about one of the Rugby League Challenge Cup matches and he used a wonderful phrase about the performance of one of the teams – abject normality.
What a stupid thing to do. You take two disparate entities, from entirely different backgrounds, with completely different ways of communicating and shove them together. What could possibly go wrong?
Some uneducated people seem to think that the most intense emotional event that one can experience is the birth of a child. These people have obviously never been through a warehouse system go-live. The birth of a new system is always intense and you always remember the people you have around you when the great moment arrives.
About 100 years ago, some stupid old men, a bit like me, decided that some small bits of France and Belgium were worth fighting over. Huge amounts of effort, planning, time, equipment and, unfortunately, lives were expended to move the boundary between two huge masses a few metres either way. Some people think that such foolishness was the product of the early 20th century, but let me tell you that the same nonsense and muddled thinking is happening right here, right now and in the warehousing world.
