In the early 1990s, manufacturers began to see the value of single enterprise-wide resource planning solutions that integrated manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping and accounting.
The Defense Supply Center at Columbus, one of three inventory control points operated by the Defense Logistics Agency, employs 7, 000 civilians and contract personnel.
Slipstream the backroom with the same steady-freddy technologies that manage the global logistics of moving packages, inventory and other boxed and enveloped stuff at UPS, Walmart, Target and elsewhere.