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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:17:13 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | With a new bundling of products, the operations management software provider gives lean-minded manufacturers a tool to extend just-in-time into the warehouse. |
| Keywords: | Warehouse management, lean warehouse management |
Acting on what it said was a growing need among its manufacturing customers, Apriso Corp. this week released FlexNet Warehouse Management for Manufacturers, a branded suite of previously disparate products that aims to create a more efficient marriage of warehouse and production operations.
The new Warehouse Management offering spans a number of functional areas, including warehouse management, quality management, and production execution. The twist is that the software focuses on warehouses that stock raw materials, component parts, and subassemblies that are fed into the production environment — not the more traditional WMS domain of distribution centers that stock finished goods.
“Were not out trying to sell to Wal-Mart and to manage their distribution center,” said Gordon Benzie, a marketing representative at Apriso. “We have no interest in being just another distribution center application.”
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