LMS

New types of third-party software solutions can enhance WMS in many ways, including gains in inventory accuracy, better tools for creating workflows and user interfaces for task execution, and simplified integration with mobile robots and other forms of automation.

As more companies work to make their global supply chains more resilient, strong, and efficient, supply chain management software continue to play an important role in those efforts.

To better manage through the constrained labor market, logistics operations are courting more women and other diverse job candidates; ramping up their training programs; investing in automation; and ensuring that positions offer the work-life balance that many new recruits are seeking.

Companies of all sizes are leveraging labor management systems to detect workforce issues, improve asset utilization, and incentivize employees across a distributed network.

Technology like assistive picking mobile robots, intuitive mobile devices and LMS can help overcome labor management challenges. But it also takes best practices like structured goal setting, in-person communication and employee engagement to be best positioned to maximize labor resources.

While the turbulent market has created headaches for shippers, carriers, and service providers, our study also focused on one of the most critical threats facing today’s logistics and supply chain leaders: people.

To find new solutions, it's important for workplaces to understand why traditional staffing solutions no longer work. That's why Bluecrew published its latest eBook, What Workplaces Need and Aren’t Getting From Hourly Staffing Providers.

With no end in sight to the labor shortage, companies are turning to labor management system technology for help optimizing their current labor resources.

Dotcom Distribution, with implementation services and project management from Open Sky, is deploying Blue Yonder's supply chain solutions and Optricity's slotting solution in a high velocity e-commerce and multi-channel distribution environment

Realistic strategies to address the chronic warehouse challenge.

A perfect storm of factors is making employee recruitment and retention particularly difficult in 2021. Here’s how warehouse and distribution centers can position themselves as “employers of choice” in this challenging environment.

The days of LMS being used as a narrow measuring stick are over. Today’s warehouse labor management software is highly mobile and provides metrics to change performance as work unfolds. The integration of LMS and WES is nascent and may vary by solution specifics, but it is a frontier to watch.

“Today we’re seeing LMS being integrated with enterprise systems through mobile user interfaces that create more advanced analytics"

Better body mechanics. Less potential Covid exposure. Improved picking performance. Fewer injuries. Those are four of the benefits that wearables and warehouse software are bringing to people out on the DC floor.

LogistiPoint Consulting offers retail and consumer product companies supply chain consulting, including distribution center-focused services