Like any manufacturer, your organizational goals can be summed up into three words: profitability, growth, and scale. These expectations only continue to increase as your business moves along the maturity curve, with mounting pressure to make smart investment choices that lead to the right type of gains and mitigate risk.

Over the past 20 years, various supply chain functions within organizations – such as procurement, planning, fulfillment, transportation management, and warehouse management – have grown into organizational silos, each with their own business software and processes.