IDC Manufacturing Insights

Our top technology analysts give us an in-depth look at the current penetration of wireless and mobility outside of the four walls and offer their outlook on the future of real-time, 24/7 supply chain monitoring.

WMS is now called upon to support omni-channel fulfillment and the increased use of automation that’s necessary to make it all work. Here’s how retailers, manufacturers, and distributors are continuing to drive the evolution of the market’s most mature software.

High-tech companies are making strategic shifts to their supply chain models to enable greater customer-centricity, meet changing consumer demand patterns and capture new growth opportunities. Findings come from the 4th annual global UPS Change in the (Supply) Chain survey, conducted by IDC Manufacturing Insights.

Retailers expected to pursue real-time capabilities for customized, personalized and localized customer service.

This year, the survey, conducted by IDC Manufacturing Insights, gathers insights from nearly 350 executives in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, on their current and upcoming plans for driving change in the “chain.” The following pages of this executive summary reveal the top findings around areas where high-tech logistics executives prepare to skillfully shift gears in their supply chains.

This Market Spotlight combines past research with current thinking about the challenges that continue to face manufacturers. It also discusses how visibility defined, and then enabled through cloud-based collaborative networks, can be a powerful tool in both solving existing business problems and anticipating new ones.

Linking ERP with an automated wireless parts replenishment solution gives the concept of continuous improvement real meaning.

Samsung unveiled its highly anticipated digital wristwatch Wednesday, beating Apple to what could become this year's must-have holiday gift item.

Manufacturing supply chains must prioritize flexibility and visibility if they are to adapt to a global marketplace that is evolving to be simultaneously volatile, personalized, and demanding of quality in product and service.

Global Supply Chain Risk Is Concentrated and Concealed in Sub-Tier Suppliers According to New Findings.

We call this progress the Product Value Chain, an integrated business model powered by Oracle that offers rich new strategies for executives to collectively leverage enterprise Agile PLM, Product Data Hub, Enterprise Data Quality for Products, and other industry leading Oracle applications to achieve further incremental value.

To support the productive enterprise, supply chains must embrace resiliency and become “massively multidimensional.”

The emergence of cloud computing is having a direct and positive impact on manufacturers’ IT performance and subsequently supply chain operations, according to a report from IDC Manufacturing Insights.