How to Maximize your Current WMS Investment

Utilizing a WMS in today’s new world is about much more than managing your inventory. Modern technologies and solutions can automate warehouse logistics to make intelligent, real-time decisions that direct warehouse activities for maximum efficiency. Yet, research indicates that often 35-55% of a typical warehouse management system’s installed capabilities go unused.

Alpine Supply Chain Solutions are pros at leveraging our extensive warehousing and WMS expertise, to help our clients mine additional value from their current WMS investments.

Recent wins include:

• Helping a client facing new shipping demands due to COVID-19 convert their case pick operation into an each pick operation
• Working with a client not using directed putaway and replenishment triggers to examine the value of these capabilities and implement them
• Assisting a client with the rollout of cartonization and (batch) cart pick functionality

You can learn more about the value these clients have realized and get our top tips for ‘easy tweaks’ you might want to consider to gain value from your warehouse managment system investment in our upcoming webinar: How to Maximize your Current WMS Investment.

Greg is a seasoned Supply Chain Technology and Operations Professional focused on driving revenue through value engineering (ROI Analysis), and business development. He has spent his entire career as an innovative leader in Supply Chain Sales, Consulting and Implementation and now joins us at Alpine.

Greg possesses over 30 years of progressive hands-on experience with a broad range of mission-critical supply chain technologies including on-premise, cloud-based, and SaaS solutions. He has deep domain expertise across a variety of solutions sets including supply chain execution, supply chain planning, labor management solutions, and supply chain advanced analytics. Greg has extensive experience evaluating, selling and implementing advanced technologies related to big data, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Greg is considered an expert in roles related to “C – Level” strategic sales, business growth and expansion, value engineering and business case development. He has leadership experience in Pre-Sales Consulting, Account Executive mentoring, product strategy, training/mentoring and management consulting.

Managing Principal, Michael Wohlwend spent six years with SAP running the Mid-West Services business, where he was the executive sponsor on 3 SAP EWM installs. Michael also spent seven years with Manhattan Associates where he was involved in over 30+ installs. In addition, his responsibilities included RFID in a BOX. Prior to that as a member of consulting and software firms, he provided supply chain solutions for more than 30 top companies including Technicolor, Warner Brothers/Elektra/Atlantic, Sargento Foods, Johnsonville, IKON Office Solutions, Depuy, Schwarz Pharma, Long’s Drugs, Ross Stores, QVC, eLuxury, Alliance Beverage and Churchill Distributors.

In his 25 years of experience in the supply chain industry, Wohlwend has authored numerous articles for trade publications and has presented more than 70 seminars and speeches at key industry events. These events include National Conference of Operations & Fulfillment (NCOF), Warehouse Education Research Council (WERC), Council of Logistics Management (CLM), ScanTech, Distribution Computer Expo and ID Expo. He has been a board member of WERC since 2008 and Past President in 2014.