Technology

As interest in cloud computing increases, so does the confusion surrounding it. Learn the basics you should know in order to make an informed decision: the language of the cloud, costs variances, “public” vs. “private” cloud computing, and more!

The decision was made to completely outsource its transportation management to a third party logistics (3PL) provider, which allowed company leadership to keep its focus on continuing the growth of its business and strengthening its core competency of producing juice-based drinks.

LLamasoft, the global leader in supply chain design software solutions, today announced that Mu Sigma, one of the world’s largest decision sciences and analytics firms, has selected LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru to help its clients harness big data to generate more effective supply chain designs.

Join Group Editorial Director, Michael Levans and LLamasoft Executive Vice President, Toby Brzoznowski for this Webcast, as they explore why supply chain design has become such a critical business function during this special Webcast

Production modeling was once only used by plant-level operations engineers to help utilize capacity or schedule production. Today, many of the world’s leading companies have found that modeling production footprint, operations and capacity as part of their end-to-end supply chain practice can be the key to outperforming the competition. And that extends far beyond the four walls.

How does your IT team today determine your company’s current industrial wireless system needs and assess whether they are being met? When was the last time the wireless network at your industrial sites was upgraded or refreshed – does it lag behind the deployment of new mobile devices or applications?

With the powerful on-premise or cloud Microsoft Dynamics SL solution for professional services, operations, field services and construction management, you can be confident that projects are estimated correctly, completed on time, and meet your customers’ requirements.

With suppliers jumping on the RFID bandwagon and more deployments looming on the horizon, the future of RFID remains promising. Here are the market drivers that continue to push ADC/RFID adoption and examples of facilities that are putting it to work.

In our recent shopper survey, Shoppers today indicated that their top 5 uses of mobile phones in the store included: Looking up store information, Browsing online websites for products, Checking for sales, specials, or coupons, Looking for competitive pricing, and Using mobile coupons.

Modern Material Handling readers evaluate their usage of materials handling software technology, its value to their organizations, and spending plans for expanding and updating existing applications.

Learn how the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) deployed the Intermec CN50 and Intermec CK71 rugged mobile computers with the help of Scan Read Technologies to boost data capture capabilities at high stakes tournaments. As a result, they expect an excess of $3 million in savings by 2016.

Sorting through the smart phones, PDAs and ruggedized computers available for business use is no easy task. Dozens of manufacturers offer hundreds of devices in thousands of configurations, but only one may be best suited for your particular environment and workforce.

Sales associates in Lord & Taylor's flagship New York Fifth Avenue store now use RFID to automatically improve display sample inventory processes and visibility, and can attribute a 4% increase in sales to more complete floor displays.

Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

GT Nexus Cloud Tools enables you to manage that change and support the complex network of data which form the backbone of your supply chain. Once you are on the platform with GT Nexus, you may be receiving data from suppliers, carriers, third party logistics providers, agents and banks.

Using Software to Enhance & Improve Your Supply Chain - Supply chain efficiency has forever been a mystery that C-level executives are inundated with deciphering - Advanced tools are needed to monitor and forecast results, providing executives with actionable business intelligence to ultimately reduce supply chain expenditures.

How can you make strategic supply chain decisions faster and more effectively? For HP, one answer lies in a technique called Geographic Analytics—the visualization of network information on a map in order to drive supply chain optimization. Flexible, transparent, and intuitive, GA has greatly enhanced HP’s toolbox for strategic assessments.

In a presentation on its first-ever annual analyst day today, Urban Outfitters made an announcement: The chain, CIO Calvin Hollinger said, will switch from cash registers to Apple products. "Sales people will have iPod touches," Joe Weistenthal reports, "and cash registers are being phased out in favor of iPads on a swivel."

Starmount software solutions help retailers optimize the shopper experience, and leading retailers are using our products to bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store to enhance customer engagement and increase sales.

Next Generation Logistics, Inc., (NGL) a leading provider of managed freight services, TMS software, and supply chain consulting announces achieving a quarter-century servicing the supply chain industry.