RE: Warehouse Automation Project

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,

MQSeries (now known as WebSphere MQ) from IBM is designed to queue data
between disparate operating systems.  A quick glance at the page below
shows about twenty different support OS's, including multiple flavors of
UNIX and Windows.

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/

This would be an industrial strength solution and would probably be
priced accordingly.  It would do what you describe below.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> I have thought about going to dataqueues and skip all that SQL-stuff.
> Are there dataqueue
> tools for Unix and Win2K systems (Visual Basic)?
> 
> Some statistical data: We process about 20.000 orders/day and 99.5% are
> shipped same day
> to about 20 European contries. Orders come in through EDI and are
> processed automatically.
> Warehouse people pick up the delivery note and fill the order. It is
> then put on the sorter and
> transported to the correct delivery station (carrier dependent).
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Oliver