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Session topics include strategies to adapt to shifts in the supply chain industry and identify areas for improved shipping processes.

While the top of the list remains stable, up-and-comers are mixing up the software landscape with Cloud capabilities that traditional vendors are working to replicate.

A Big Picture look at the inroads women are making in the supply chain field and what still needs to happen to increase their numbers in employee and senior leadership roles.

Consolidation, competition and the Cloud are shaping the software landscape around the world as the market continues to heat up.

Labor management systems have started to expand beyond engineered standards by integrating machine learning and other capabilities that further enhance their position in the supply chain software stable.

Winners revealed at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, AZ, Unilever retains the top spot in rankings as Amazon joins the "Masters."

Warehouse management systems (WMS) are the main modes for inventory control and fulfillment management in DCs, but many legacy systems have been in service for 15 to 20 years or more and weren’t designed to accommodate e-commerce needs. Here’s what rises to the top of the list in today’s WMS decisions.

The market for conventional solutions continues to rise, even as innovative variations help the industry chart a new course. 2016 Software Supplier Survey, Software Suppliers for Materials Handling Products, Warehouse equipment suppliers, Warehouse software suppliers survey, Warehouse software suppliers 2016

Cloud-based SCE solutions have been around and catching on for functions like transportation management and visibility, but the WMS market has been slow to adopt. But with more SCE vendors providing cloud options and cloud pure-play providers gaining steam, cloud-based WMS may finally be ready to break through.

Integrated platforms for supply chain execution apps are folding in distributed order management (DOM) solutions and processes, which often need data from systems for inventory management or store labor to arrive at optimal fulfillment options for customers and retailers.

Company was a pioneer in cloud platforms for field service in maintenance, sales and distribution, and warehousing applications.

Use of TMS and WMS are moving to a more concurrent, less fragmented environment as part of new approaches to supply chain execution.

One theme tied together all of the presentations, regardless of the topic: The importance of data.

Manufacturing, transportation, and distribution are changing before our eyes. While organizations try to figure out what change means to their organizations, its important to remember that the physical movement of goods isn’t going way.

Supply chain management is evolving from a series of sequential links in the chain to a supply network. That may impact how the warehouse of the future operates.