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What Drives an Investment in a Warehouse Management System? 5 Considerations for Your Selection

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This includes improving processes in inventory management and saving space. A WMS improve worker productivity by enhancing training procedures, reducing human-errors, and eliminating lengthy, manual inventories of product. The best-laid transportation management strategies are completely undone with improper inventory management.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Supply Chain Mobility & How it is Creating More Efficient Manufacturing Productivity

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Each of these definitions applies to a manufacturer’s ability to produce a surplus of a product. However, modern manufacturing is not about creating surplus inventories, but creating the right amount of product, at the right time, for the right consumer- the Holy Trinity of Manufacturing. Causing or resulting in something.

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Technology’s Ever-increasing Role in Supply Chain Functions

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In a Logistics Viewpoint survey , 50 percent of businesses reported sharing inventory across all channels or engaging in omni-channel practices. Additionally, the overwhelming majority, 98 percent, of businesses reported sharing inventory between online and retail locations. Smartphones Impact Real-Time Data Capture.

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Nearshoring & Reshoring Will Continue to Increase Thanks to these Main Benefits

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It was cheaper than producing products in the US, manufacturers could produce large inventories with little capital up front, and consumers did not really have a public voice. Yet, understanding these concepts requires a bit more than this simple definition. Reshoring Vs. Nearshoring.What's the Difference?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Industry 4.0: Powered by the Internet of Things & Digital Manufacturing

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Companies will be able to do predictive maintenance to reduce downtime, better manage their inventories, and also to become more flexible and responsive to changes in market conditions. A SAS survey found that 18 percent of industrial machinery companies have already started to use ‘IoT devices’ to increase production and reduce costs.