| | December 20138CIOReviewLeverage The Capabilities Of Technology Subsidiary of Distribution Management Incorporated, DMI Fulfillment provides companies with order fulfillment and distribution management of their products.I have worked with companies ranging from start-ups to multibillion dollar corporations since the eighties. I find there is nearly as much variation in technology and capability from company to company today as there was 25 years ago. I began working with technology in logistics in the nineties. Back in those days, the outbound trucking department was often referred to as "Traffic". You chose a carrier based on things like which carrier brought pizza and doughnuts or which one offered tickets to a baseball game. Transportation Management Systems (TMS) were just moving out of academia, not easy to use and expensive. The best way to get a TMS was to outsource to a 3PL who would start with new codeand leverage the cost against multiple users. These early systems could do things beyond simply selecting a carrier based on rates --such as LTL consolidation and multi-stop pickup and delivery -- but the most amazing thing "back in the day" was that they allowed information to be exported and emailed in a spreadsheet versus having a report dropped on your desk printed on green bar paper.Ah, green bar paper reports. In my current role, I work with a lot of startups and have a select few that I mentor. These are brilliant young people coming out of entrepreneurship programs on fire to start their businesses. They are often obsessed with writing "code" but don't By Bob Klunk, Managing Director, DMI Fulfillmentopinionin my
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