Like all companies, in this difficult time, Logicon is looking for new opportunities to optimize the range of products offered, taking into account the need for their import substitution. To do this, the company is ready to offer the market several options for the implementation of full-fledged WMS systems that meet all modern business tasks of customers.
Firstly, despite the “withdrawal” of one of the leaders in logistics automation, Infor, from the Russian market, Logicon still managed to maintain legal relationships with the vendor, allowing, subject to certain conditions, to continue selling software licenses and implementing the corresponding a wide range of SCE products (WMS, SE, etc.) from this vendor. Logicon (Uzbekistan) is an official partner of Infor (on the territory of the CIS countries), has access to both Infor software distributions and Infor source code.
Secondly, Logicon has not previously relied solely on foreign partners, and based on its rich experience in the implementation of Western products, it has been creating its own solutions for managing high-performance warehouses for a long time. It is no secret that such efforts require a considerable amount of resources, so it was decided to carry out these works with the participation of Russian partners who also have extensive experience in working with warehouses - Exceed Consulting ( http://exceedscm.ru/ ) and MSK Consulting Group ( http://www.mskcg.ru/ ).
Currently, a consortium of three companies is ready to offer the market several options for warehouse management systems with similar functionality, but based on different platforms. If initially the INFORUS WMS system (that is the name of the new, jointly developed Russian solution) was based on the familiar Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL, then new conditions required us to make the solution multi-platform.
As a result, we are ready to offer our customers two INFORUS options:
- based on Windows Server and MS SQL;
- based on Linux Russian editions as platforms, and Postgres SQL as database servers. Porting to open source platforms is still in full swing, but it is already clear that the horizon of these goals is not far off.
When developing the INFORUS WMS system, the companies relied both on Western experience in building and automating warehouse business processes, and on their own developments related, for example, to solutions for labeling and traceability of goods, yard management and a number of other solutions.
Therefore, today we can already say with certainty that the “leaving” of Western vendors in the niche of IT solutions that the group of partner companies is engaged in will slightly affect the quality of the products offered to the Russian market, allowing the use of all the most modern technologies, as in the context software development, and business processes for high-performance warehouses.
