From SCDigest’s On-Target E-Magazine From the Rise of the MHI Organization to Key Mentors to a Vision for a Better WMS, Dan Gilmore Hill Discuss Supply Chain Trends and History SCDigest Editorial Staff John Hill is a legendary figure in the Warehouse Management Systems and automatic data collection worlds. Currently a consultant with St. Onge, he was CEO of WMS pioneer in the late 1970s/early 1980s, a company that helped define the modern WMS market and which produced a large number of professionals that greatly influenced the industry after Logisticon’s ultimate closure. He and a small group of folks – notably the late Dave Scott – ran a small consulting firm called Cyprus for many years through and beyond the 1990s that had influence in the market well beyond its size. He was a fixture giving conference presentations for years, to the point many assumed he was running a very large consulting firm. He has been highly involved and influential in the MHI organization (the former Material Handling Institute) and automatic identification group AIM, and indeed is a chart member of a group called the AIDC 100 . In the Fall of 2003, just weeks after the first issue of Supply Chain Digest in September, Hill did the very first "unplugged" interview with SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore. Now he’s back in 2015 with a much longer discussion, summarized in Gilmore’s First Thoughts column last week. Last week, we ran the first half of the full transcript of that interview, which can be found here: John Hill Unplugged Full Transcript Part 1 Someday, I think someone is going to do it, bring such a WMS to the market. Users will by it, generate their own software just for their needs, and improve their operations. Below now is part 2 of […]