WorkWave

JANUARY 23, 2025

Industry experience shows that customers who receive thoughtful cancel letters within 24 hours are significantly more likely to continue service than those who receive no communication or delayed responses. Plus, prepaid services reduce billing and collection costs while providing crucial working capital for early-season expenses.

Material Savings 69

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Ship Monk

APRIL 23, 2024

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Recycling and composting count as positive carbon equivalents, and reduce your overall carbon footprint.

Waste Reduction 104

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. Infor, with anticipated revenues of $3.4 Infor does as well.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

All industries have their unique aspects which is why it is so important to select an ERP system that caters to your business’s specific challenges. Data can also be used to generate reports and insights that can help distributors improve their business regarding everything from pricing and product selection to marketing and sales strategies.

ERP 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Integrating ESG across supply chains presents clear operational and strategic challenges that require focused attention. A lack of standardized ESG metrics across industries and regions makes it challenging to consistently evaluate and compare supplier performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. Within the semiconductor industry, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic hit, execution is key. Qualcomm also faced a raw material shortage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

A worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain is present in 72 countries with more than 167,000 employees. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. and Data Science.

Material Savings 111

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

This years exhibition, held from March 17th to 20th, resonated with a palpable urgency, driven by a challenge that casts a long shadow over the industry: the persistent and intensifying labor shortage in warehousing and logistics.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Topic: Prepping for Peak: How to Level-up your CX Strategy this holiday season. Retailers and shippers must adapt their strategy to ensure they get the right product, to the right place at the right time to meet the high expectations of consumers/customers. Description: . Steve Rowen . Managing Partner @RSR Research .

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Webinar Supply Chain Software Supply Chains Sourcing Strategies 195

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 14, 2022

Food and beverage manufacturing and distribution companies usually operate on smaller margins than most organizations in other industries. Unfortunately, a significant chunk of food and beverage companies’ raw materials are commodities, whose prices don’t just fluctuate from month to month but can change hour-by-hour.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

Manufacturing Procurement Cost Reduction Material Savings Price Reduction 105

Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

These driverless machines have replaced some manual labor and forklifts, moving materials efficiently and safely, thus redefining industrial operations. In this article, we explore how these AGVs are changing the warehouse industry by minimizing human error, reducing labor costs, and setting new standards for productivity and safety.

Materials Handling 78

Materials Handling Material Savings Supply Chain Software Cost Reduction 78

Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Among the many notable presentations were the robotics solutions unveiled by Angelini Technologies – Fameccanica. Thanks to their modular nature, speed, precision, and ability to integrate, they can certainly also make an important contribution in terms of efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes applied to logistics.”

Waste Reduction 49

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 8, 2025

In manufacturing, performance improvement, cost reduction and process optimization are crucial. Industrial engineers have used heuristics-based rules, what-if analysis, and physics-based simulation to get predictive and prescriptive insights for several years. Generative AI can also be used for information summarization.

ERP 62

ERP Supply Chain Design Software Modeling Software Optimization Software 62

Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

These driverless machines have replaced some manual labor and forklifts, moving materials efficiently and safely, thus redefining industrial operations. In this article, we explore how these AGVs are changing the warehouse industry by minimizing human error, reducing labor costs, and setting new standards for productivity and safety.

Materials Handling 74

Materials Handling Material Savings Supply Chain Software Cost Reduction 74

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Siemens has 100,000 or even millions of products, and they hope to reduce the environmental impact of these products. The aim is to transform the whole value chain to reduce the environmental footprint of a product. The key is to reduce inputs, increase circularity, and reduce waste.

Industry 124

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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. The term ‘industry 4.0’ In a nutshell, Industry 4.0 The World Economic Forum goes on to highlight two elements that make industry 4.0 experience. and employee 4.0

Resource Reduction 105

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

Reducing energy costs often reduces GHG emission. And finding alternative energy, which again reduces GHG emissions, is the next step. They have been both reducing their energy usage and investing in alternative fuels. This will help the company achieve its goal of reducing aircraft emissions intensity 30% by 2020.

Sourcing Strategies 133

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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. The term ‘industry 4.0’ In a nutshell, Industry 4.0 The World Economic Forum goes on to highlight two elements that make industry 4.0 experience. and employee 4.0

Resource Reduction 98

Resource Reduction Cost Reduction Inventory Reduction Sourcing Strategies 98

Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mosca is making its corporate commitment transparent and offering an overview of future goals with its first in-depth sustainability strategy report. It also includes a comprehensive materiality analysis and a detailed description of resource consumption along with numerous starting points/targets for new and ongoing sustainability projects.

Resource Reduction 45

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

A new report assesses the importance of 37 materials to these industries and evaluates environmental, social and governance risks. One of the biggest obstacles to setting and implementing strategies for responsible sourcing is accessing reliable and current data and analysis, according to The Dragonfly Initiative CEO, Assheton Carter.

Sourcing Strategies 87

Sourcing Strategies Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Sourcing 87

Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats.

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CLX Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2023

As a manufacturer in any industry, your core priority is manufacturing safe solid and liquid chemicals like performance chemicals, peroxide, and so forth—not specializing in transportation. This allows shippers to tailor logistics strategies to the specific needs of the chemical industry.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 28, 2023

Beginning mid-afternoon on Monday and continuing into Tuesday morning was “walk the process” – mainly looking at material flow, where things bunched up, and things that wasted people’s time (there was no shortage of that). After that presentation, though, John came in. (I’m Math was on our side.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The intralogistics industry needs to keep pace with the rapidly changing markets and customer needs. This trend is being fuelled by the ongoing shortage of skilled workers, which sometimes impacts intralogistics even more severely than other industries. Smart chargers reduce energy costs. Launch of in-house fuel cell production.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 9, 2021

Given the various uses of pallets, this shortage is bound to affect many industries directly and indirectly. In addition, there are other regular shortages of battery materials and steel. We have identified nine strategies that might be of use regardless of whether you are a DIY builder or someone concerned about their supply chain.

Price Reduction 98

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2018

. --62% of manufacturers expect their sectors to grow, more than doubling the 2017 outlook; food and beverage (71%) and construction materials (69%) cite the highest optimism for sector growth. Others include machining/industrial (59%) and automotive (52%).

Price Reduction 141

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Compactor Management Company

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Industrial manufacturing firms dispose of the waste produced by their operations through a process called industrial waste management. When your business produces a significant amount of waste, it is crucial to implement an effective industrial waste management system to ensure it is responsible and environmentally friendly.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. Both industrial engineering and operations research have their roots in logistics.

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GoShip Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

The prefab home industry is witnessing a remarkable surge, driven by the appeal of faster construction times and cost efficiency. At the heart of this growing trend lies a critical challenge: efficiently shipping prefab home materials across the nation. And with prefab homes, timing is everything.

Material Savings 52

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

As climate concerns rise, companies are urged to reduce their carbon footprint and embrace sustainability. Beyond ensuring cost savings, this shift enhances operational efficiency and shapes consumer perceptions, crucial for staying competitive in today’s eco-conscious marketplace.

Material Savings 56

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We know that the manufacturing industry is the engine of economic growth and social impact. Many of Australia’s major trading partners have announced ambitious climate goals for 2030 and the Australian government is currently committed to reducing emissions by 26-28 per cent by 2030 although there isn’t a confirmed deadline for net-zero.

Manufacturing Procurement 130

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

In such an active industry automation environment, it is challenging to find the right solution that will help companies achieve better results and revenues. Many companies are wondering what can help them make material flow more efficient. Intralogistics is becoming increasingly important and has a greater impact on other departments.

Material Savings 55

Material Savings Automation Presentation Events 55

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The pandemic was a wake-up call for many industries, exposing vulnerabilities in global supply chains and highlighting the need for greater supply chain resilience and adaptability. Diversifying your supplier base can help mitigate the impact of disruptions and ensure a steady flow of materials.

Supply Chain Planning Software 59

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

RTITB has released updated training materials to help improve rider-operated Pivot Steer truck safety through high-quality training. The new Pivot Steer training materials have been designed to give qualified Instructors and Trainers everything they need to deliver high quality, standardised training.

Buyer Training 62

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

From empty cans to filled bottles: Mosca will be presenting two different solutions for securing beverage containers at DrinkTec, the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage industry, from 12 to 16 September (booth C6.351). But different requirements must be met depending on the type of container.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But I was not well-informed on the breadth and depth of the company’s warehouse technology investments or the overarching technology strategy. Source: GXO Logistics Q3 2021 Investor Presentation. The GXO third-quarter earnings presentation summarizes the magnitude of its warehouse technology investments. Contractual Alignment.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Starting in 2023, the Logistics Hall of Fame will present a new international award: the Lynn C. The 80-year-old US businessman transferred industrial logistics strategies to humanitarian organisations in the 1990s. It can be repaired with low material and energy costs and is fully recyclable at the end of its life cycle.

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