About the Author Mark Fralick is president of GetUsROI , a WMS and supply chain execution consulting and solutions company. He is a well recognized expert on WMS, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), material handling systems integration, and other technologies. Prior to founding GetUsRoi, Fralick was Vice President of Architecture for RedPrairie (now JDA). He is co-founder of Software Architects International, a successful Warehouse Management System (WMS) provider subsequently purchased by RedPRairie. This is one of the main reasons why WMS underperform operationally when they first go live. Implications of smaller decisions, when rendered into the bigger picture, do not play out well. Dr. Watson Supply Chain by Design: Four Groups that Need to Step Up to Help Make Network Design More of a Profession Supply Chain by Design: Top Four Best Practices for Multi-Objective Optimization Supply Chain by Design: Caesars Entertainment’s Customer Data is Worth $1B – How Much is Your Supply Chain Data Worth? Supply Chain by Design: Using Transactional Data to Estimate Truckload Market Conditions in Near-Real-Time Supply Chain by Design: Routing Optimization is Hard: Lessons from UPS More I shake my head when I see it. And, unfortunately I see it all too often. In this case, I am talking about the biggest myth of WMS implementations. This is that testing is a phase of the project. It’s like saying "Okay, everybody, go! Test, starting now." Actually, when I say it out loud to myself it actually sounds a bit crazed. But I get it, it is a convenient way for people to think about a project. Actually, it is the way I used to think about a project until I had a revelation several years ago. Testing is not an ‘event’. It needs to be part of the core processes in a project. Think of […]