St. Onge Company’s Howard Turner was quoted in a recent Logistics Management article about integrating supply chains. He talked about how modern supply chain management software and cloud technology are essential in achieving interconnectedness. Use the link below to read the article!
Howard Turner, director, supply chain systems at St. Onge Co., says the interconnectedness movement is also happening within the SCM software space itself.
“Software companies have been merging all types of applications, be it TMS, WMS, YMS or some other type of application,” says Turner, “all with the goal of getting multiple applications onto the same platform.”
Turner sees the cloud as the ultimate facilitator of this convergence. Companies across the board are adopting more cloud-based solutions and fueling a global software sector that’s expected to exceed $1.3 trillion in total market volume by 2029—up from a current $934.3 billion. With a market volume of $390.5 billion, software as a service (SaaS) is currently the dominant player in the public cloud market sector.
The advent of application programming interfaces (API), which are rules and protocols that allow different software applications to communicate and share data, is another force behind the fusing of SCM software platforms.
“Where this ‘convergence’ was mostly lip service 10 years ago, we’re now seeing a move to truly single platform solutions,” says Turner, who points to the emergence of microservices architectures (collections of small, independent services that communicate to perform tasks) as a third catalyst for building more flexible and scalable integrated systems.
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