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Tear Down This Wall! (Pt.1)
This whitepaper is the first in a three part series that will describe an achievable strategy for inbound logistics organizations to elevate freight savings by 20-30%, through a collaborative, technology-enabled approach to Logistics and Purchasing planning.
What is the Value of 5 Minutes of Labor in Your Supply Chain?
Performance improvement through effective labor management is critical to the success of any labor-driven operation and effectively managing your labor expense is often the single biggest opportunity for performance improvement and cost reduction in your distribution center, manufacturing plant, retail store and/or delivery operation.
7 Actions to Boost Distribution Labor Productivity
Logistics organizations are expected to make additional contributions to the bottom line by continually eliminating costs and increasing workforce productivity.
The “Ins and Outs” of Improving Workforce Productivity
This white paper compares the pros and cons of using a temporary staffing firm, employing a managed services/insouring vendor, or outsourcing to a third party logistics company. Find out the cost, risks and benefit of each approach…and which strategy best fits your current workforce performance level.
Supply Chain Modeling to Find Hidden Cost Savings
Modeling technology can uncover millions of dollars in supply chain savings just by optimizing existing assets and processes. Oftentimes, simply visualizing existing supply chain structure and flows can reveal hidden inefficiencies and present opportunities for further analysis and optimization.
The Path to Peak Supply Chain Performance
Linking ERP with an automated wireless parts replenishment solution gives the concept of continuous improvement real meaning.
Ignify eCommerce Statement of Direction and Roadmap
The roadmap in addition to our statement of production also re-affirms our commitment to continue to invest in the product for at least the next five years.
Dynamic Business: from Aspiration to Reality
We are already seeing the impact as customers make the transformation, and Microsoft is committed to delivering modern business solutions, built using the broad portfolio of Microsoft technology, with intentional simplicity as a core design element.
Determining a Total Solution Cost for an Analytic Data Solution
The report presents two big data application examples and shows how each would be implemented using 1) data warehouse technology and 2) Hadoop. It then calculates the five-year TCOD for each solution.
Gartner Says Big Data Creates Big Jobs: 4.4 Million IT Jobs Globally to Support Big Data By 2015
“By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States,” said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research.
Harnessing the Value of Big Data Analytics
Learn how to gain business insight using MapReduce and Apache Hadoop with SQL-based analytics.
Project Management in Software Development: Taking the complexity out of complex projects
This Analyst Insight will illustrate Best-in-Class strategies for delivering software that provides the organization with high Return on Investment (ROI) while managing the triangle of quality, cost, and time.
Making the Supply Chain Software Business Case
In making a strong business case for supply chain software, it pays to focus on three categories of benefits: efficiency, asset utilization, and customer response.
Global Virtual Teams: How Are They Performing?
Our preliminary analyses suggest that the biggest gain could come from initiatives to build trust among the team members. Managers should also make an effort to nurture this trusting environment over time.
Cloud ERP Selection and Planning Guide
As host to the largest Microsoft Dynamics customer base in North America, and the leading provider of Dynamics ERP in the cloud, Tribridge created this guide to help decision makers choose the right deployment model for their accounting and ERP solution, including key considerations and steps specific to cloud ERP.
Mapping the Logistics of Megacities
Megacities – cities with a population of at least 10 million people – are increasing in both number and size, and their share of world GDP is expected to grow from about 14% to over 20% in a decade. Most of the 23 megacities that currently exist are located in emerging markets.
Advanced Supplier Management
This “Control Tower” dashboard should be accessible to any authorized person in the organization to constantly monitor and respond to events as they occur, monitor supplier health and performance, assess the effectiveness of mitigation activities and continuously improve your operations and exposure to risk.
8 Elements of Successful Supplier Control Towers
Control towers can be used within many industries for different purposes: airports and train depots use them for traffic control; power plants, especially nuclear plants have elaborate control rooms to monitor operations and third party logistics providers deploy them to track distribution and transportation activities.
Streamline Supply Chain Using Social Media
Social Media has been widely used in general business and marketing but the application in supply chain management context seems to be lagging behind. As a matter of fact, social media can be utilized to improve various aspects of supply chain and business results can be achieved rapidly.
Cloud Information Technology: A Model for the Networked Company
The best cloud offerings in supply chain will not only provide a platform. They will include tools that the IT team can use to configure the software to meet their unique business needs, gain access to a community of partners, connect seamlessly to other systems, and analyze high quality data from a single information source.
Featured Companies
Founded in 2004, TruckerCloud has been a pioneer in trucking solutions and supply chain management. Our mission is to connect Transportation Logistics professionals and organizations to make them more productive and successful.
Uber Freight is essentially 'Uber for trucking'. Our mission at Uber Freight is to make the day-to-day lives of truck drivers easier and their work more efficient by leveling the playing field.
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure…
Infor Supply Chain Management combines best in class solutions with industry-specific functionality, giving you the power to plan and execute your supply chain strategies faster and more profitably, from strategic and tactical planning to execution. With analytics at the core,…
LogiStar specializes in providing a range of SAP supply chain execution solutions and services. The company helps organizations better align their critical business processes and strategies to create superior competitive advantage through increased operational efficiencies, reduced supply chain operations costs,…
FreightWaves provides news focused on economic and innovative technology drivers for the freight transportation ecosystem.
RIS Retail Info Systems News
This magazine advises retailers on how to improve their business performance through the use of information technologies, thus generating greater productivity, profitability and competitive advantages. It covers current ideas on how to use technology to improve operating efficiencies and much…
SMC³ is the one-stop knowledge hub for less than truckload technology, data and education. The API-powered SMC³ Platform delivers unrivaled LTL analytical capabilities and shipment visibility data. Best known for its trusted CzarLite®, RateWare® and CarrierConnect® rating and transit solutions,…
Flintfox develops trade and revenue management software and provides ERP consulting and implementation services. We have over 29 years of experience delivering solutions for pricing, accruals and rebates to the retail, consumer goods, manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries. To support our…
OnProcess Technology is a managed services provider specializing in complex, global service supply chain operations – the flow of people, parts and services following the sale of a product. Since our founding in 1998, we’ve helped many of the world’s…
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