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The Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative

Logistics Viewpoints

In today’s fast-paced, hyper-competitive, omni-channel world, warehouses play a critical role in maximizing service and fulfilling the ambitious customer promises that are required today. Warehouses also represent an enormous cost center. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change.

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Warehouse Digitalization: The Warehouse of Tomorrow

Vinculum

The Digi-Smart manufacturing process empowers enterprises to gain control of their warehouses and ensures that products can be delivered to customers as quickly as possible. This wave of change has made warehouses smarter and more agile. Some experts say that within five years high-performance warehouses will be fully autonomous.

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Addressing the Talent Gap in Logistics and Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The mismatch between the high demands by employers and the supply of logistics skills and knowledge is resulting in a growing gap in the logistics & supply chain market”. Talent gaps in logistics and supply chain, continues to be a top challenge and a source of high risk for many companies.

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Choosing the Right WES: What to Look For

BlueYonder

My previous blog post focused on defining what a Warehouse Execution System (WES) is, as well as the benefits this solution delivers for retailers, manufacturers and logistics services providers (LSPs). Joe recently joined me for a LinkedIn Live event called “Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative.”

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The Future of Digital Supply Chains

DynaSys

Internal demand planners and logistics teams. Supply chain operations such as distribution and warehousing will also use this approach facilitated by companies such as Uberfreight and DHL. A supply chain analyst wrote in 2019 that by 2029, the only economy will be the circular economy. Collaboration is white-board centric.

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Market Forecast of Omni-channel And Warehouse Management Systems till 2029

Vinculum

The Omni-channel and warehouse management systems market survey includes a brief idea about the organization. It gives the vision to shape the insight of the business in a better way and understand the factors related to the success of such a business model using the Omni-channel and warehouse management system is a great way.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2020 (Who knew I’d still be writing this blog 18 years later!)

NC State SCRC

Some of these events will not likely occur in the next year, as I’ve tried to extend these predictions and recommendations for managers out to a timeline spanning 2020-2029, (which also gives me a bit of room for error).