SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

A meeting between two pioneers during a cocktail party in 1956 turned out to be a defining moment in the world of manufacturing. Technological advances has often moved faster than digital capabilities. Success will be dependent on three factors: Skills development as a central component of your digital roadmap.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

One promising application that is emerging in the Supply Chain and Sustainability space is Digital Product Passports (DPPs). This offers industries a way to meet growing demands for transparency and accountability, especially from regulators and consumers. Driven by regulations and a thirst for data transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Even mom-and-pop stores and diners had to step up their digitalization game with the pandemic erupting. Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Digital Transformation Journey. Going Digital: Creation of the Digital Foundation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 14, 2024

The increasing transition from traditional sales channels to digital commerce isn’t breaking news for manufacturers. It’s a strategic move you’ve likely pondered over countless meetings and budget reviews. If you want to learn about how ERP and eCommerce platforms work together, you can download our Digital Commerce infographic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today’s supply chains are fraught with uncertainties across demand and supply yet are tasked with adding incremental value to their organizations while also meeting commercial, working capital and sustainability goals. An example is insight beyond your four walls to understand how tier one, two, three, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Digital Wave of International Logistics In the context of 21st-century globalization, international logistics plays a crucial role as a bridge connecting the economies and trade of various countries. International Logistics must find a balance between more economical costs and higher efficiency to meet the needs of different countries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Are you trying to figure out how NOT to join the 70% who fail at digital transformation? As much as we conflate digital transformation with technology, without these missing ingredients your initiative will fail. As much as we conflate digital transformation with technology, without these missing ingredients your initiative will fail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Digitalizing sourcing (i.e., Digitalizing sourcing (i.e., Let us take the example of direct materials, i.e., materials that are used as components in making a finished product, such as a hard drive or RAM in a personal computer. Or say you are sourcing tomatoes to make tomato sauce, there are a large number of factors at play.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. Digitally Enabling Hot Loads. This is one of the company’s first steps to their digital transformation in shipping. A Digital Transformation Requires More than Visibility. What made Ms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

For example, Maersk uses a digital twin a virtual replica of its terminals to simulate different scenarios and make data-driven decisions that improve efficiency and reduce risk. Supply Chain Digital Twin Cisco adopted a digital twin of its global supply chain to enhance its ability to model and simulate various scenarios.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

When you think about digital transformation, you probably think of multinational giants like McDonald’s or Sephora. Case in point: Brook Furniture Rental has invested in new technologies to undertake a true digital evolution, significantly improving customer service and reducing operational costs along the way. Where’s My Truck?

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Digitization is Your Friend. It’s not news to anyone that digitization is a roaring trend and I’m here to say: embrace it. Suspicion that digitization will eliminate jobs is not without cause—there is no doubt that certain roles are changing or being eliminated by automation. Digitization is not your enemy; it’s your friend.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 4, 2021

If you use only one distribution center in California and all your freight has to be delivered from there, can you meet online ordering expectations nationwide ? Shippers that relied exclusively on a common carrier for LTL freight were stuck last year when those carriers couldn’t handle double-digit growth and imposed daily limits.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, before the pandemic, companies could get by with analog machines, paper-based systems, and disconnected point solutions. To do this, information must not only be digital, but it must also be shareable between systems. The pandemic made that impossible. The need for a holistic view of the shop floor.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

He suggested that businesses are more likely to prosper if they focus on meeting the needs of customers, instead of selling products. The first thing for any 3PL to do is to understand the nature of its market and the need it meets. Cloud computing itself is a prime example.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

A responsive supply chain can help to ensure that you always meet customer demand, even if you face inevitable obstances. Many companies are undergoing a digital transformation , switching from manual processes to automating routine tasks. what we found was shocking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As operational disruptions become more frequent and severe, integrating advanced technologies such as digital twins, IoT and predictive analytics can help companies anticipate, prepare for and adapt to these challenges. Adapting to Thrive One key technology driving challenge mitigation is a digital twin.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Retailers like H&M can’t meet demand because of delivery delays, Nike cut its sales forecasts after COVID-19 triggered factory closures and Bed Bath & Beyond has faced ongoing shipping challenges. What is Digitalization? Digitalization also helps streamline and automate time-consuming operations (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Manhattans Omnichannel solutions provide an operating platform for digital commerce, retailers, and wholesale businesses. This reflects the difficulty in synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing and fulfilling in the short-term time planning horizon.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

Again, digital technology has arisen as the key to transformation, in the guise of services managed via online platforms. The Many Purposes of Supply Chain Platforms How is digital platform use likely to be a future hallmark of supply chain success? Unfortunately, its not that simple. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

For months, retailers have been stockpiling massive amounts of goods to meet surging consumer demand, and compensate for ongoing supply and logistics issues. Strategy and leadership teams might elect to be alerted to production line disruptions, for example, so they receive details about every impacted order. He lives in Chicago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Raj Govindarajan agreed to answer questions about KeHE Distributors digital transformation. Do you consider this part of a digital transformation? As part of our goal to become the Next-Generation Distributor, implementing tools to provide best-in-class customer service is a large part of our digital transformation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

Digital Catapult has today launched the Digital Supply Chain Hub, a platform designed to facilitate strategic collaboration between manufacturers and digital solution providers across the UK. The majority of the UK’s logistics industry is also seeking digital solutions to optimise their operations, with 86.5%

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

I also had to ensure that I planned each route in such a way as to make it possible for the delivery crews to meet the customers delivery time windows. ” “With no digital technology to assist the route planning process, I had to estimate all route timings , and I could only use weight to gauge when a vehicle would be filled.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 9, 2022

Digital transformation has quickly become an essential part of any successful business strategy which has also resulted in a skills gap. Manufacturers and distributors are simply not engaging with the new workforce, yet the new workforce is digitally savvy. Digitalization. An evolving workforce. Manufacturing. Industry 4.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2021

For example, Warehouse Execution Systems have been labeled as having the ability to provide unprecedented, automated business intelligence, but remember, this is a whole layer of functionality that sits on top of a WMS or ERP. The elastic, independent, and autonomous scaling of our computing enables our true cloud capabilities.

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AIMMS

JULY 15, 2019

A great example of this is one of our customers, a Europ ean chemical company with $300M in annual revenue who is growing fast and was ready to move from spreadsheets to something more robust. Within a few months they moved from spreadsheets and silos to looking at real-ti me scenarios in monthly planning meetings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2021

In fact, people commonly use it as a metaphor in business situations “I didn’t meet the deadline. WMS suppliers were well positioned to support their customers with the adaptations required to meet the abrupt change in fulfillment requirements driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. They threw me a curveball.”

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

More Resources Home Bridging Two Realms: The Digital-Analog Dance in Logistics Ian Arroyo Unbox your Freight knowledge. Visit our Resource Center The Digital Contradiction In the digital age, it’s easy to assume that all industries are racing to become fully digital. Digitization is underway…but it happens slowly.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Automation and Digitalization Automation is becoming increasingly prevalent in the trucking industry, revolutionizing dispatching, load matching, and fleet management. For example, the ongoing driver shortage has led to a 30% increase in freight rates over the past two years, challenging businesses to find reliable carriers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In fact, 29% of businesses stated they would explore initiatives to address immediate needs and accelerate digital transformation. Here are examples of the tangible return-on-investment (ROI) ERP can bring to your business: Maintain competitive advantage with ERP. Over the last year, those who were more robust remained resilient.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In order to meet some requirements, for example, of customers or corporations, the resources managed in logistics can include tangible items such as food, materials, equipment, liquids and stuff as well as abstract items such as information, particles and energy. What is Logistics?

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Goldston has over 20 years of experience working with organizations worldwide on business performance improvement, organizational change, and enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives. Example: reducing water usage by installing low-flow toilets and sinks in your office. Justin Goldston, Ph.D. , Better Public Relations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Meeting these challenges will require a ‘digital first’ approach and put pressure on organisations to start thinking about their supply chains through a ‘regenerative’ lens. It is still early doors, but large incumbents are contending with the challenge of quickly adapting legacy systems to a digital-first environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Along with Digital Transformation, leveraging AI/ML, autonomous decision-making, and going for Ecosystem collaboration, “Composability” is another central theme to make the supply chain planning more agile. In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. So what to do?

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

When customers are waiting on crucial deliveries, meeting their timeline isnt about adhering to instant gratification; its about ensuring they have the goods and resources they need, when they need them. Consumers rely on fast delivery and, in todays digital-first environment, have come to expect it as the standard.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In many cases this has forced decision-makers to take a step back and reassess the bigger picture and implement changes where necessary to meet the growing need for agility and resilience. For example, ERP software can provide decision-makers with insights into the seasonality of products and customer-buying habits in the current market.

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