Software and hardware solutions from our partners

Our EGO WMS has connections with IT solutions on the market, as well as with external services and equipment. Thanks to them, the exchange of information benefits from great reliability and in particular allows you to increase your logistics performance .

Connect the EGO WMS suite to software solutions

In recent years, the offerings of business and management IT solutions (Web platform, marketplace, ERP, transport software, expert solutions, etc.) have undergone significant development.

To have a reliable and robust information system in the company, these solutions need to be “connected” to warehouse IT. For example, they can be used to:

• Retrieve information on a stock status or shipping confirmation,
• “Download” information on announced receipts or the order portfolio into the warehouse,
• Etc.

In recent years, SITACI has selected and implemented connectors with partner solutions that meet these interfacing challenges , namely the reliability and availability of field information .

Connect the EGO WMS suite to hardware solutions

The offer of equipment and equipment (barcode reader or RFID, hardened, PDA, labeling and printers) has improved considerably in recent years. They also democratized with:

• Video cameras,
• 3D scans (for optimizing trailer filling),
• Intelligent mobile desks and cobots,
• RFID antennas (for Pick To Light or permanent inventories),
• BLE beacons (Bluetooth beacon for indoor location),
• Virtual reality glasses (head-up display),
• Augmented reality glasses (assisted maintenance),
• UWB (Ultra Wide Band) systems for indoor location (via tag).

This technological offer is obviously applicable to intralogistics professions . However, even if these new materials allow gains in productivity and reliability , they are only relevant in certain specific conditions and for certain use cases.

Moreover, certain hardware integrators, such as the company TIMCOD based in France or more recently consulting firms, have developed expertise to support the choice of the best technologies based on well-defined business cases.

The brakes in the interconnection of a WMS to materials and equipment in the warehouse

Even if the technological offer has become plethoric, hypercompetitive and with a significant drop in prices, it nevertheless encounters obstacles to materializing in the warehouse.

We have detected 4 main obstacles.

1.  The human factor : reluctance can come from a few people who do not like change. It may be difficult to change their habits, facing others with a profile of skippers and more fond of new technologies. Moreover, this will require very easy handling of the equipment connected to the WMS. This can be, for example, thanks to environments close in ergonomics to that of a personal smartphone.
2.  Technical incompatibilities with information systems already in place: the architecture of computer systems does not allow simple interfacing with these new technologies.
3. Market access for startupers: product or service innovations in these markets are mainly driven by startupers. They are unable to quickly integrate them with a client, and even more so in aging information systems. Unfortunately, the costs and market access times are very (too) long for these young companies and are often incompatible with their available means (financial, skills, networks).
4. Perceived additional costs and the difficulty of estimating ROI (Return on Investment): logistics is often perceived as a cost center. To acquire a fleet of new “state-of-the-art” equipment, it will then be necessary for the logistics manager to also think about return on investment.