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Bekaert Corporation: Dock Scheduling improves logistics planning

Transporeon

It definitely helps our teams in each shipping facility better plan. For example, in our Van Buren, Arkansas, facility, they’ve changed the time slot schedule three times in the last four months. Detention charges are definitely easier to validate and sometimes even easy to reject. How has it impacted your customers?

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Dig Deep: What to Know About TMS Hosting, Data Models and Integration

Talking Logistics

Another example is a customer web service API for quotes. Don’t settle for buzzwords and don’t assume that you and your vendor have the same definition of a term. An old-school security data model would mean 20 different integrations points – one for each customer instance.

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Logistics IT: Is there an app for that?

Automotive Logistics

In a further example of Android-based ‘micro-applications’, another customer’s requirement for vehicle data capture had outgrown the capabilities of a simple yard scanner, and so was supplemented by paper-based data capture, recorded on a batch basis. The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Not so monolithic any more.

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Supply Chain Management:'Asset' in Enterprise Asset Management

Infosys Supply Chain Management

We spoke with Rohit Choubey , Lead Consultant - ECS EAM and Rejeesh Gopalan , Consultant - ECS EAM to get their views on significance of Asset definition in EAM and how it can contribute to the emergence. An Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) framework is predominantly based on the definition of Asset. Pharmaceutical and Biotech.

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Supply Chain Management:Maintenance Practice- A standard to be.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

For example, preventive maintenance are either time based or meter based and it appears that it has got nothing to do with equipment dynamics in itself. It is time for some serious introspection but definitely not through the prism of standards. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries.

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Supply Chain Management:A New Lens for Supply Chain Roadmaps

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Are poor results only attributable to the usual suspects such as weak change control board, less than ideal program management, schedule/cost overruns, poor definition of requirements etc? Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries.

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Linear Asset Management and Dynamic Segmentation - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

For example, to replace cathodic plates on a specific section of pipeline, the maintenance planner can specify the work area to be at a specific distance from "Shutoff Valve-4" with respective Y and Z offset defined. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Publishing Resources Industries. Business Services. Business Applications.

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