SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Similarly, a 2021 study from McKinsey showed that just 19% of companies that had adopted Industry 4.0 What it all led to was inefficiencies in decision making: When you rely on manual systems, you can never have total confidence in the information you’re presented with as a decision-maker.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. After another few years, we upgraded to a new route-planning system based on digital maps. “I would begin my shift at 2 p.m.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2017

Hennecke will be presenting this case study there, so make sure you don’t miss it! I’ll leave you with her parting words with regards to digitizing your supply chain: “Don’t wait, get started, do something. If you try to [digitize the entire end-to-end supply chain at once], you will never get there.

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IoT World Today

MAY 14, 2020

Thomas foresees augmented reality technology, particularly, capable of providing relevant data readouts, documentation and expert advice — even helping to create digital twins that remotely represent real-world manufacturing, maintenance and warehouse operations. Others agree. Logistics: Low Hanging Fruit?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. Ibrahim Al Syed, the director of digital manufacturing at Celanese, was surprisingly forthcoming about how Celanese developed these capabilities at ARC Advisory Groups 29th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum. Their guiding principle was human-centric digital design.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 14, 2023

Home delivery and sustainability are two topics that I have written about quite a bit in the last few years, and Descartes just released its home delivery sustainability consumer sentiment study, so the timing seemed perfect. By doing the study for multiple years, you can start to see trends emerging.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 9, 2018

According to a 2017 Michigan State University Supply Chain Management study , “supply chain and product complexity possess a number of sources that vex supply chain operations…customer accommodation is the first,” including the demand for speed and visibility into shipments. Data is the fuel that powers the modern supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A 2013 study by TalkTo estimated that the average American spends between 10 and 20 minutes each week listening to pan flute music, that is the equivalent of 13 hours per year or 43 days in a lifetime! In digital self-service, the content is information, and the delivery method is software. Annoyed yet? No more pan flute music.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The rise of digitalization in the workplace has brought with it an interesting corollary for skills needed in human workers. A World Economic Forum study found that the top 10 skills for the next decade include essential human skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and people management.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 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. We’ve moved slowly in this area.”. The growing skills gap.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

The transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. After another few years, we upgraded to a new route-planning system based on digital maps. “I would begin my shift at 2 p.m.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an era where technology is continuing to migrate consumer spending habits online and away from brick-and-mortar stores, the newly released 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study (#3PLStudy) highlights how supply chains are also going digital and using science to keep pace. The publication, available at no cost at www.3PLStudy.com

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. TestLabs , which included Federal Government-funded pilot education and training programs in digital technologies. The digital explorer. The digital player. Employee 2.0:

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Shipping and Freight Resource

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Serious r espondents will be presented with a copy of this market research for free, sent to their respective email addresses upon release, so ensure you have updated your correct email address. Businesses need to look inwards, too, as they contend with the lack of proper documentation and struggle to digitalize workflows.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A second meeting held this past spring moved the conversation forward, focusing on two timely and important questions: Why is digital transformation important for the heavy building materials industry? Getting Started with Digital Transformation. How do we get ready for this journey? Just get started,” they tell me.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2019

workforce is being encouraged to be strategic about how they position themselves in order to stay competitive in the digital future. Join us in our excitement for the digital age. Growing Pains. As we stand at the precipice of this modern trade revolution, the next generation of the U.S. The Light at the End of the Tunnel.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The 2021 25th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study shows that shippers and their third-party logistics providers are working together to create positive relationships as well as a competitive advantage. John Langley, a supply chain professor at Penn State University and founder of the Annual Third-Party Logistics Study.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The company has also won several awards for providing consumers with more control over deliveries using digital products. But sometimes, a resistance to change and lack of organizational alignment can be a deterrent to digital transformation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 18, 2022

While this utopia sounds far-stretched for some, it also illustrates the possibilities presented to manufacturers and distributors by Industry 4.0. TestLabs , which included Federal Government-funded pilot education and training programs in digital technologies. The digital explorer. The digital player. Employee 2.0:

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

According to the “The Total Economic Impact of Blue Yonder Luminate,” a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Blue Yonder , Blue Yonder’s SaaS-based solutions do just that. The financial analysis from the study found that companies had a net present value (NPV) of $59.79m and a return on investment (ROI) of 394%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2021

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. The company had 300 new customers and 100 go lives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In his presentation, Matt discussed the future of supply chain optimization. And you need to maximize digital transformation innovations. Fab summed up the vision at the end of his presentation: Think big and don’t settle. As the tagline said, I was there to learn, connect, and be inspired. This is how you can knock down silos.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JULY 13, 2022

These insights are backed by 15 years of commissioned research studying how attributes of freight and transportation strategies are correlated to performance and price paid. While the nationwide average tells one story, we will always see pockets of variation present in regions and individual lanes. Segment your freight portfolio.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2022

A Statista study found that in 2020, the furniture and appliance e-commerce global market volume was $383.2B. According to a study about delivery visibility-related issues , 93% of consumers want to stay informed throughout the delivery process, and 47% will not order again from a brand with poor delivery visibility.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 30, 2018

Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future. Digital Transformation in the Heavy Building Materials Industry. BASF Video Case Study: The Value of Real-Time Freight Visibility. Supply Chain Visibility: Past, Present, and Future. Digitizing the Global Supply Chain: Three Ways to Create Value.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2018

I gave a keynote presentation on emerging technologies (drones, driverless trucks, 3D printing, blockchain, etc.) That’s the most common question I get from supply chain professionals today and it’s the main question I addressed in my keynote presentation. Moen: A TMS Case Study. LTL Meets Real-time Visibility.

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WorkWave

JULY 31, 2020

Whether using technology to interact with your prospects and customers is a new approach you took on during COVID-19, or you’ve been making an effort to stay on top of new technology for years, it doesn’t change the reality of your business’s present: your success in the second half of 2020 and beyond will rely on your use of new technology.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . Digital transformation is not always about new technology.

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Forto

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

About 40 experts from the logistics industry, startup economy and supply chain managers from German Mittelstand followed FreightHub’s invitation to the Soho House in Berlin and seized the opportunity to discuss current trends, challenges and lighthouse examples of digitization in Germany and Logistics.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

How can postal companies make headway with digital transformation? The company has also won several awards for providing consumers with more control over deliveries using digital products. But sometimes, a resistance to change and lack of organizational alignment can be a deterrent to digital transformation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 24, 2023

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a great place to start digitization of your manufacturing or distribution business to centralize all your data and streamline your operations for greater efficiency. However, various studies indicate that 70-90% of digital transformation initiatives fail.

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WorkWave

JUNE 10, 2020

Many businesses are in a position where they have the opportunity to adapt and get creative with their digital operations; their marketing should not be any different. As with the rapid push to digitally transform your business, the demand for human-centered marketing is also being accelerated by the pandemic. How has it transformed?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2019

That’s a question best answered by studying trends in uptake across the many types of enterprise that rely on logistics and supply chain management to keep the revenue rolling in. This is the debut presentation of what I think will be a nightmare-inducing robot” — Marc Raibert, CEO, Boston Dynamics. Is AI Adoption Advancing?

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Bringg

AUGUST 5, 2020

Back in 2017, the Click & Collect Retail Consumer Preference Study revealed that nearly one third of shoppers made an online purchase and subsequently picked their order up at a store during the 2016 holiday season. And, of course, the chain of custody gets tricky and will require digital proof of delivery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The HAHN Group MOBILE.EXPO is picking up speed and presenting its technologies and products with its innovative exhibition and trade fair concept at 13 locations in Europe. The HAHN Group shows digital and service-oriented concepts on 60 sq m of exhibition space in the specially converted exhibition truck.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Exhibitors from nearly every sector of the industry are coming to LogiMAT 2024 to present their latest products and solutions for ergonomically optimized intralogistics processes, healthy workplaces, and injury prevention. The intralogistics industry has not been spared the ravaging effects of demographic change and labor shortages.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. It has never been easier, in general, for smaller companies to trade in international markets than it is today.

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