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Tips to Choose the right WMS

Logistics Business Magazine

Based on this analysis, the team needs to prioritize the key functions of the software. For this purpose, it’s crucial to make a qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis, without missing significant direct or indirect consequences. Of course, you should constantly monitor the implementation process.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. For example, you can be doing finance in supply chain, or you can be doing operations. You could be particularly numerate, or into analysis. Sea Change—A Supply Chain Career is now seen as ‘Cool’.

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7 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2018

Logistics Bureau

It’s also the time when I start to think about sharing my thoughts on trends for the coming year , but of course, stop short of trying to make predictions. Examples include SAP Fiori apps and SAP Mobile Platform. 2018 Trend #2: Big Data and Advanced Analytics in the Cloud. 2018 Trend #4: Elastic is the New Lean.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. But hard skills must be coupled with soft skills.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

From the use of archived data on tapes for sales analysis, Wal-Mart went to a system that made each individual sale from each Wal-Mart outlet available for scrutiny in fewer than seven minutes. Premium orange juice for example has a storage life of about 65 days. Everyday Challenges in Warehouse Operations.

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Amazon Go and the Future of Sentient Buildings: An Analysis

Supply Chain Brain

Getting into the store is somewhat similar to entering a mass transit system that has RFID readers with mechanized “saloon doors” (i.e. small swinging doors), except Amazon Go’s doors are clear plastic and you use your phone instead of an RFID card. We are almost certain Amazon is not using RFID for tracking items in their Go store.

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State of Global Logistics: Delivering above and beyond

247 Customs Broker

The collection provides analysis of the key trends affecting the overall industry, and is split into five surveys investigating the freight forwarding, motor carrier, express and warehousing sectors as well as the increasingly important topic of “environment and ethics” in global logistics.