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Internet of Things is happening everywhere, from home thermostats to cars, to machinery in factories. Now IoT is taking hold in warehouses, though more slowly. But with more warehouse-focused vendors offering pretested sensors, prebuilt analytics and alerting around IoT-connected equipment, IoT should become more widespread in DCs.

Partnership to allow customers to better strategize and optimize asset maintenance execution.

88% of digital transformation leaders also qualified as IoT Leaders, suggesting IoT is a technology that underpins the loose concept of digital transformation.

What new trends and opportunities will emerge for both shippers and software vendors this year in the transportation management systems (TMS) market? We gathered three of our top supply chain software analysts to see where they think the market is headed.

TITLE: Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group LOCATION: Dedham, Mass. EXPERIENCE: Senior analyst in the retail and supply chain industries for the past eight years DUTIES: Responsible for research in the omni-channel supply chain and transportation management systems (TMS)

With more orders, more products and tight expectations from customers, efficient, accurate inbound logistics paves the way for effective order fulfillment. TMS solutions can smooth inbound processes through a combination of visibility/execution features and fuller use of optimization algorithms to pick the best inbound routes and carriers. Benefits of Transportation Management Systems

Warehouse execution system suppliers are offering higher-level functionality—such as waveless order processing, performance analytics and mobile apps—transforming WES into a configurable platform for warehouse operations management.

Regardless of how it gets done, an emphasis on high-level data quality and management needs attention from both shippers and providers.

Omni-channel pressures are driving modular warehouse execution suites built on a WCS core. Here’s how these solutions differ from traditional WCS below and WMS above, and manage fulfillment operations in new, dynamic ways.

Equipment uptime and diagnostics among top-use scenarios, but experts agree that it is still early days for IoT adoption.

WMS lags other categories in cloud adoption, but is poised for growth as solutions scale up to meet the needs of larger sites.

The future was on display in Atlanta.

A mature market by supply chain software standards, warehouse management systems continue to play a prominent role in the ever-changing shipping and distribution environment. Here are five market drivers that are sure to keep usage on the rise.

The 2013 holiday season highlighted the importance of warehousing, distribution and materials handling processes. With Modex around the corner, five thought leaders take stock of what may lie ahead for our industry and our customers.