A question I had to ask myself today was if a POS system or a Parcel tracking system can be considered an MES system or not. I know that naming does not matter, but we've been telling people in industries that the system that integrates ERP systems and operations systems is called MES and have pictured this heavenly world for them were some planning or order in ERP translates into automatic operations down in filed level.

If you are a logistic company and you get orders for moving bulk material which then gets executed by your truck drivers and equipment operator, and then you feel like you need some system which translates these orders into individual truck/equipment operations that can be executed automatically and execution results can be recorded against original order then are you talking about an MES system? Should you approach the most well-known MES solution provider and define that as a project for them?
Or are you talking about the same old custom software that runs your business?