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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. To understand this question, we will need to understand what are the differences between digitization and digitalization?

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Digital twins help postal and logistics companies plan for the future

Logistics Business Magazine

However, postal services and logistics companies are building digital twins to achieve just that. Powered by data-driven virtual models that can simulate real-world operations, digital twins are allowing the sector to predict the future and plan for it. This can be replicated in the digital twin and the effects observed.

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Killing Ghost Loads and Phantom Data with Michael Darden

The Logistics of Logistics

Michael is the CEO of DFM Data Corp, a utility company designed to be a tool between digital partners moving freight in the USA and Canada. Michael Darden is the Founder and CEO of DFM Data, where he and his team help accelerate adoption of digital freight services by shippers, carriers and brokers. About Michael Darden.

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Digital technology helps mitigate climate change risk

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, in a future that includes raw material scarcity and trade uncertainty, organisations that rely on more resilient inputs such as drought resistant crops can gain a competitive advantage,” Wheatley said. Only 19% of surveyed companies are using digital technology to help understand climate change risks.

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Because there’s so little face-to-face contact in the digital world, it’s a lot harder to figure out who your customers are, how they shop, what they have in common with each other, where they go and what they do when they’re online, and why they’re drawn (or not) to your brand. Here are some of the tools CRM systems offer.

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eBook: Navigating the Journey of Digital Transformation

Logistics Business Magazine

Logistics Business magazine, in association with Aptean, has produced a short digital issue eBook about Transport management operations and cloud-based route planning. In this 8-page special guide, Editor Peter MacLeod talks to Aptean’s spokespeople Gail Skinner and Ben Glossop about the benefits of digitization.

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Better Truckload Operations Efficiency Through Digitalization

Blue Grace Logistics

Digital trucking is bringing unprecedented, large-scale benefits to the national transportation grid. Digitization takes living, real-time data from once futuristic fantasy to practical present-day tools. Digitally integrated metrics also mean the more efficient movement of goods. Hybrid Supply Chains.