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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

One essential tool used by the supply chain team is supply chain design. They also produce industrial automation solutions that allow factories to monitor and control production. The supply chain has about 190 factories and 100 distribution centers. The company has a complex global supply chain. Botham explained.

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Simplifying Data Management: How to Turn Raw Data into a Competitive Advantage

WorkWave

Between company CRMs, sales and marketing tools, fleet and inventory management systems and more, companies have access to a lot of data. Data Activation (Puts Your Information to Work) Finally, a data warehouse can connect to BI tools, automation and analytics to deliver immediate insights.

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The smart factory Part 3: What does the factory of the future look like

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. So here goes – read on for a greater understanding of these concepts and the role they play in your journey to a smart factory.

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The smart factory Part 3: What does the factory of the future look

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

IoT sensors in the supply chain and robotics in factories are fluently available. In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation.

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The smart factory Part 4: What skills do manufacturers and distributors need in the factory of the future?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As manufacturers and distributors inject their operations with innovative technologies in an effort to transform them into smart factories, a shift in how those factories are staffed has emerged. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce. As factories add smarter tech, they’ll need people to manage it.

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Watch: Will 2022 Be the Year of the ‘Smart Factory’?

Supply Chain Brain

Jason Bergstrom, principal and smart factory leader with Deloitte, traces the evolution of the smart factory, and defines the term as it applies to modern-day technology tools.