Körber Elevate Showcases Ecommerce Warehouses

Körber Elevate Showcases Ecommerce Warehouses

Körber, which was known as HighJump Software until about a year ago, completed their virtual Elevate Americas user conference. Despite the pandemic, it was a good year for the supply chain group at Körber (Körber rhymes with Gerber, the baby food company). This group had record revenues. The company had 300 new customers and 100 go lives. Many of the go lives were completed in a digital approach where no consultants went to the customer's site. When it comes to remote implementations, you can't find a more inspirational story than the one presented by Lori Jackson, senior vice president of operations at ForHIMS. ForHIMS is a personal wellness startup that sells through the ecommerce channel. Ms. Jackson, and a small team, supported by the system integrator iWMS, implemented a warehouse management system (WMS) at a green field site in under 100 days during the pandemic. Lori herself got Covid early in the project, which meant initially she was not able to participate in all the Zoom calls. The iWMS team on this project had folks from the US, South Africa, Ceylon, and India participating in team meetings and individual calls. There were calls where a ForHIMS team member might say