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New year’s resolutions: Accelerating digital transformation with ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The first step would be to replace paper-based systems with electronic systems to benefit from accurate real-time manufacturing intelligence and data to enhance collaboration and productivity. Without this information the threat of wastage, unnecessary downtime and poor decision-making is ever present.

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High Ocean Freight Rates Might Spoil Holiday Season Shopping This Year

Turvo

In such tricky times, exercising forward-thinking and planning shipments in advance can help businesses take advantage of the holiday season. For instance, considering earlier deadlines to stock up in-store for the holiday season in the present situation, shippers will need to get their products on ocean vessels sailing quickly.

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How to Boost Worker Productivity by Promoting a Positive Mindset

GlobalTranz

Workers who are present but performing less than 100 percent due to illness or stress actually cost companies more on worker productivity than absent workers do, losing an average 12.4 Workplace stress is partly physical, and exercise is one of the best antidotes for the physical component of stress.

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The boss

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

But “The boss” exercises control not only in the mix of products and the layout of supermarkets, but also in the central axis of decision making related to the group’s logistics operations, as they do in other areas of the company. The goal is to have the products with the highest quality and at the lowest price possible.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

What matters most is how effectively the people involved in the process collaborate and overcome the silo mentality prevalent in organisations with multiple functions and business units. Success depends upon a business culture where cross-functional collaboration receives more than mere lip service from stakeholders.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats. The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation.

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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics

Logistics in War

This article was originally prepared in collaboration with ‘ Over The Horizon: Multi-domain operations and strategies’ , a blog which asks the question , ‘what comes after the Joint and inter-agency constructs?’ Unfortunately, these challenges are precisely the point of exercise training. Rules Creep.