Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2023

Matt Elenjickal, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FourKites, has pointed out that “data is the raw fuel of a digital transformation.” APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) have conducted best practice and benchmarking research on MDM. In this research, more than 1300 qualified respondents participated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. To define what exactly it is, a digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process, or system. Simulation is the most widely used benefit of a digital twin. Physical change (i.e.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Earlier this month, Brian Gaunt, Senior Director of Accelerated Digitization at DHL, provided me with an update on the company’s warehouse digitization journey. They conduct research, engage with partners (100+), and identify the opportunities that best align with their objectives. DHL Innovation Funnel.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 11, 2022

With respondents’ top growth investment for 2022 being “increasing recruitment and training efforts”, this year’s study reveals the profound effect that current labor shortages are having on digital supply chain transformation. Download the complete report: Digital Supply Chain Planning Outlook 2022 ?.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Most, if not all, business leaders understand that the corporate landscape changed dramatically when the world entered the Digital Age and data became the lifeblood of most enterprises. 6] Trevor Miles, “ Let’s be clear: Digitization is not the same as Digital Transformation ,” Kinaxis Blog, 8 December 2017. [7]

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2022

The past couple of years has been a remarkable time for e-commerce as more and more consumers have discovered the digital path to purchase. Nina Taniguchi, an Ads Research and Insights Manager at Google, writes, “ Much has already been written about how COVID-19 has dramatically changed consumer behavior.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2022

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) continues to rank driver shortages, driver retention, and the costs of extensive regulatory compliance on carrier operations as top concerns for carriers. Many analysts report that shippers are increasingly looking at digital solutions to improve supply chain performance.

Optimal Sourcing 238

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 16, 2021

Today, entangled in digital supply chain discussions is the concept of the digital twin. The term digital twin, while used frequently, all too often, is over-hyped and without meaning. In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers. The Use of the Digital Twin at Philip Morris.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

Two years of digital transformation in two months,” was the comment that one retailer made when discussing how COVID-19 had accelerated their digitalisation journey. Those that were already on a digital path had clear roadmaps in place. Figure 1: PPI – Digital vs Non-Digital Manufacturing Organisations: WW Manufacturing.

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ivalua

JULY 16, 2020

A lack of digital maturity and a focus on supplier cost and quality are also limiting green practices. 16th July 2020, London – Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of spend management cloud solutions, has shown that six-in-ten (60%) UK businesses have decreased their investment in sustainability initiatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Futuristic road transportation technology with digital data transfer graphic showing concept of traffic big data analytic and internet of things. Understanding what digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation mean, is fundamental to guide an implementation and successfully achieving goals.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 6, 2023

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly digital twin technology, is making it much faster for organizations to explore hundreds of scenarios in very little time. ”[1] That simple sentence is packed with information. .”[2] Not all decisions need to be made by human planners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ARC’s Industrial Digital Transformation Top 25. ARC Advisory Group, where I work, recently announced the publication of their analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. D’Aquila is a director of research at ARC. The report takes a holistic approach to what a digital transformation means.

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IT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Digital Marketer. The post Technologies Trends According to Recent Research Papers appeared first on IT Supply Chain. By Ellie Yantsan (pictured).

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2022

We live in a digital age in which, according to Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, big data is an organization’s most valuable asset. With the Digital Revolution in full swing,” they write, “data is to business what oxygen is to mankind.”[2] Data and the Digital Supply Chain.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To help develop a holistic vision, city planners would do well to look at industrial organizations that are implementing digital twin technology to help them with both planning and execution. They are finding that digital twins are saving them time and money as well as improving performance. What is a digital twin? ”[2].

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2022

Digital Champion Best Practices. Most consumers are conducting their own research before making decisions, buying across multiple channels and expecting customized products and services. This is significantly higher than average organizations, and more than double that which is achieved by Digital Novices.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the era of the Digital Retail Revolution, adaptive supply chain management is imperative amid the surge in online retail and the social commerce boom. The digital retail revolution can help in this area by digitizing all processes of receipt and tracking of goods. This, in turn, leads to increased sales and customer loyalty.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

When you think about digital transformation, you probably think of multinational giants like McDonald’s or Sephora. Case in point: Brook Furniture Rental has invested in new technologies to undertake a true digital evolution, significantly improving customer service and reducing operational costs along the way. The Results.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Since the earliest days of the Digital Age, business consultants have been encouraging client companies to transform into digital enterprises. Tech journalist Zach Cooper insists, “Whatever a company’s vision for the future, it must include digital transformation in order to grow.”[1]

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ivalua

AUGUST 29, 2019

The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Ivalua, found that 71% of respondents believed the rate of digitisation in Procurement is low. Overall, 85% of respondents view the Procurement and supplier management function as less digitally mature compared to other departments, such as marketing, human resources or accounting.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a professional, securing your place in any supply chain organization entails developing the supply chain skills needed to ride this global wave into supply chain digital transformation. Data Analytics. The field of data analytics encompasses every massive potential supply chain improvement in the wake of Industry 4.0.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Digital twins are game-changers for businesses as well. McKinsey research indicates 70% of C-suite technology executives at large enterprises are exploring and investing in digital twins. Digital twins are computer models of real-world objects used to predict results through simulation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The times of global pandemic will be remembered as the years of mass digitization. During the pandemic digitization was just the only way things could work. Covid-19 has left us little choice but to leverage digital tools to stay operational. That’s what I continue to believe. But when humans don’t have a choice, they adapt.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This perfect storm of events has also increased the buzz about Autonomous Digital Enterprises (ADEs). ”[1] He believes the ability to pivot is enhanced when a company becomes an Autonomous Digital Enterprise; which he describes as “an organization that embraces intelligent, tech-enabled systems across every facet of the business.”

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A shortage of digitally savvy talent, and a lack of training for technical and soft skills, hinder digital procurement initiatives. Additionally, over half (55%) of UK businesses say that digital skills in procurement are less advanced compared to other departments. Challenges in hiring digital skills in procurement.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The Digital Age has spawned a variety of views about how technology will improve or destroy life as we know it. ”[1] Businesses are certainly having to navigate digital transformation carefully as they seek ways to become more efficient and profitable while trying to avoid data leaks and privacy issues. .”[1] ”[2].

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 9, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, a number of studies concluded organizations only had a short-period of time to begin their digital transformation journeys. We know the digital transformation timeline was thrown off by the pandemic; however, analysts aren’t sure by how much. He prefers the term “digital reinvention.”

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 14, 2021

With so much commerce moving online, digital customer experience (CX) is becoming increasingly important. According to a 2018 Gartner survey, “Across all industries, at least 84 percent of consumers say their experiences with using digital tools and services fall short of expectations.”[1] ” Online Security.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found that procurement has become of growing importance to organizations, with 85% of respondents indicating that executive leadership recognizes procurement’s role in revenue growth. Now is the time to digitalize procurement and use it as a growth driver.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. “At the Digital Supply Chain event at SAP. First great insight from John McNiff: digital mature companies have lower DIO, IBP supports them!” ” My question is, “What is a digitally mature company? The research is generated by SAP. And, how does IBP support them? Let’s take another example.

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