Select Technology for the System, Not the Feature List

Logistics software evaluations are still too often conducted as feature contests. That approach made more sense when applications were relatively self-contained. It makes much less sense when every important platform now sits inside a web of data, decisions, workflows, automation, and AI.
The traditional feature checklist is not enough. Technology selection increasingly needs a systems engineering lens. The earlier WMS architecture discussion illustrates the principle: feature breadth can be les