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Warehousing software at home and abroad, "Game" Analysis

     Mentioned foreign warehouse management system impression, mostly: expensive implementation cycle is long, complex and difficult to grasp and so on. In the global market sales ranked first in the US warehouse management system, the main function of the system is characterized in that the degree of detail and richness to reach other manufacturers (domestic and foreign) insurmountable height, after decades of development, the system architecture complexity and non-general parameters of domestic and foreign manufacturers have been able to match, most of the storage needs can be carefully studied by the consultant after configure it, without the need to re-modify the code to customize.

     A few years ago, the domestic logistics software market thriving, especially when the medicine, clothing and other market is booming, foreign warehouse management system is indeed pioneering the wound are generally insufficient budget or for storage management software companies do not have much understanding will consider domestic software companies.

     And in recent years, the United States, this world's first warehouse management systems in many domestic evaluation has become: The system function is indeed very rich very complete, but the price is too expensive (generally almost 5-8 times more than domestic manufacturers), customers typically use up to 30% of the features but will have to pay 100% of the price is not worthwhile, and in no way meet the parameters or use is not smooth, the cost to modify the original code of the software than the average compared to much (more complex system modification costs the greater the time), so foreign warehouse management system seems to gradually lose their appeal, but also in some sense the domestic industry to develop warehousing systems seem to have more and more good trend.

     Thus, there have been such as "The domestic market has become increasingly unsuitable for foreign manufacturers", "domestic manufacturers defeat foreign manufacturers" and other viewpoints. In my opinion, these conclusions was too arbitrary, a good system embodied in the design, development and maintenance and into the implementation, rather than on the crown of domestic or foreign flag.

     Indeed, the domestic market for this first global evaluation of warehouse management software can be observed on some real truth, but in fact it relates to foreign policy makers as well as the headquarters for China's response to market changes, as well as abroad for professional managers in China treatment and other factors, resulting in this first international ranking of software companies seem to miss an opportunity, but not all, since the mere surface of "acclimatization", "domestic manufacturers rise" caused such a simple reason.

     Another reason: Usually market participants may not know is that many international logistics software company, "killer" of the full range of the entire supply chain system, the relationship with the local language, or R & D support is no way to cover, in fact, simply do not extended to China, and these applications is not five people together to talk to Gaga classes can code up a simple software.

     And in retrospect domestic warehouse management system vendors, the biggest difference is the support behind without capital, China's capital market interest in the Internet and so obvious, but has been the lack of interest for application software development industry, the phenomenon is due to the development of domestic manufacturers power has always been inadequate.

     In fact, most of the domestic warehouse management software, supply chain is not based on a profound theoretical basis or slowly evolved from the site requirements, but to learn from the foreign manufacturers, domestic industry sales again. At the same time, many foreign enterprises really worked consultant to join domestic manufacturers, but also for domestic warehousing system to enhance the role exists.

     Why most of the foreign warehouse management system developed almost all large, rich and varied parameters, complex and time-consuming to implement complex software, and domestic manufacturers to develop the system is relatively simple, try curing functional use, rapid implementation of the model? There are many reasons are simple examples:

1. The source code and configuration

     Foreign market development up to now, a lot of time selection or logistics companies have very taboo to modify the original code, but stressed the need to be able to configure it, this phenomenon in the country has not yet been clearly observed. Because of this selection style, well-known foreign warehouse management systems are constantly deepening CBC in function, and in order to meet the needs of industries spend a lot of manpower and resources to maintain such a complex system, super complex parameters and documentation sufficient to let implementation consultants spend a lot of time to import is not a complex function.

     On this level, even if there are many domestic manufacturers overseas WMS experienced consultants added, it is difficult to claim to system level has been close to a global brand. This is the development trend of Chinese and foreign logistics software market caused by different styles of different systems, China is now the system was carried out on this point to modify the source code is not particularly offensive, but a buyer's market, a great "I pay, let you change the more I have the more cost-effective "feeling.

2. Competition and a sales perspective considerations

     In other countries, a careful import warehouse management software implementation of the project, whenever they spend more than five or six months is a very common thing, does have a very detailed project management tasks required to implement the system, but into the country, such a the project required investment cost is too great, not many companies can afford, so the question becomes: for the real case of domestic manufacturers need to survive, how to convince customers?

     One way is the warehouse management software portrayed as a not so difficult job, so to promote its emphasis on rapid import without source code modification, but the results often lead to is this: a beginning to the user's psychological expectation is that this system is so simple that is not complicated, but the real need to optimize the use of or late, due to the overall project budget, firms can not continue to invest human resources to customer service, the user is often seen in use after a period of time due to the low-cost software support service reasons the results lead to unhealthy waste system re-selection, the frequency of which appeared in the domestic market than people sometimes think.

3. R ​​& D Cause Factors and barriers to entry

     R & D investment is the same as the main cause of domestic manufacturers lack the rich resources invested in product maintenance and upgrading.

     Warehouse management system at first glance, nothing more than a series of operations to support receipt to delivery, it is much simpler than the ERP! But why in today's warehouse management system or a separate system rather than by their manufacturers and ERP into becoming one of the modules of the reason lies in the warehouse operation processes and the diversity of needs and variability.

     Relatively simplified system of domestic manufacturers, there are also a large part of the reason is the warehouse management system industry barriers to entry low, several programmers can write, even with Excel, Access can be completed, and this is the difference, not everyone both knew it.

    Abroad, especially the United States, often with reference to the user in the selection system Gartner report such authority or ARC software evaluation agencies, but also because of this, many software companies will try to angle the criteria for these organizations to enrich their own software. In Taiwan, there is no such agency or authority reports.

     Therefore, adequate budget, expected scrutinizing existing logistics operations and optimize enterprise storage systems, many foreign software can learn relatively new concept, in this case is not just a function of internal storage innovation, but inside the warehouse application of the concept that the whole supply chain.

     And a technology platform for foreign manufacturers hoping to grasp their own, do not want all future changes need to find a manufacturer to modify the user's original code, foreign manufacturers logistics platform open approach, better able to carefully reference, these platforms, not three to five years It can be developed, but the real accumulated decades of renewal only in exchange for the stability of the product.

     And want to quickly lower the initial cost of the system as soon as possible users, domestic manufacturers of the system will be a better choice, this phenomenon is particularly evident in the current Taobao sellers self storage, O2O warehouse user selection, in this respect, indeed foreign manufacturers advantage is not obvious.

     Asia, especially China's logistics environment, the past few years abroad shaped large storage software, in most cases it is difficult to practice the so-called best practices foreign to domestic copy storage demand, independent research and development of warehouse management systems still remain in the majority according to the needs of development, cheap grab fierce competition in the city.

    Therefore, domestic and foreign manufacturers have their own areas of expertise in warehousing and simple operating functions, especially memory and other transceiver functions use the operator is indeed approaching, this is the inevitable result. However, the warehouse management system include not only the field of functional, batch number, inventory property management, equipment management, task distribution, personnel management and labor party logistics characteristics transceiver memory, etc., are all areas of warehouse management systems, plus various types of automation equipment , RFID and other properties of the match, with the overall supply chain and all walks of life, warehouse management system is not as easy to imagine.

    Therefore, we do not have to judge what is good or bad domestic and foreign warehouse software system, but pay more attention to the evolution of logistics, transportation management and other systems, which model is the tendency for users to better improve efficiency, It was more important. 

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