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Listening to the Voice of the Warehouse Worker –5 Factors Impacting Employee Attraction and Retention

Logistics Viewpoints

As a pioneer in warehouse technology and the development of solutions that empower warehouse workers, Lucas Systems recently commissioned a research study and developed the first Voice of the Warehouse Worker Insights. On-floor workers are willing to trade pay for better tech to do their jobs. Demonstrate the company cares about its workers.

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Case Study: Advanced Planning & Scheduling at Leuze Electronic

Logistics Business Magazine

Leuze electronic no longer optimizes its purchasing and production decisions with ERP as in the past, but on the basis of the Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) tool DISKOVER from SCT. With Leuze already having decided to switch over to SAP at its company headquarters, they could certainly have used the SAP planning tool.

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Finally – A breakthrough alternative to spreadsheets for managing your Supply Chain

AIMMS

Supply Chain Insights , founded by well-known analyst Lora Cecere, conducts many quantitative studies and reports a couple of key trends, in their report “ Three Reasons Why SAP SC Planning Is a Risk to Your Business ”. SAP Is Discontinuing Support of the Current Supply Chain Planning Technologies. It is an expensive workaround.

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Case Study: Demand Management Efficiency for Brandt Group

Logistics Business Magazine

The company also switched its enterprise systems from Sage to SAP. The business later plans to implement FuturMaster’s Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) tool to help co-ordinate information and reporting between each entity.

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Finally – A breakthrough alternative to spreadsheets for managing your Supply Chain

AIMMS

Supply Chain Insights , founded by well-known analyst Lora Cecere, conducts many quantitative studies and reports a couple of key trends, in their report “ Three Reasons Why SAP SC Planning Is a Risk to Your Business ”. SAP Is Discontinuing Support of the Current Supply Chain Planning Technologies. It is an expensive workaround.

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Dock Delays and Detention are a Big Issue

Trinity Logistics

WAITING, WAITING, WAITING… According to a recent Trucker Tools whitepaper, wait times at shipper and receiver locations have increased compared to a year ago. At the same time, 79 percent of those surveyed in the Trucker Tools whitepaper say that they never or rarely receive detention pay when they wait for more than two hours.

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Where Will Companies Find Their Future I.T. Expertise?

Supply Chain Brain

We’re in the midst of a shift in how work gets done within a business,” says Arun Srinivasan, senior vice president of strategy and customer operations with SAP Fieldglass , a provider of vendor-management systems (VMS) software. And the very nature of that resource is changing.