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Metrics that Matter: Inventory Effectiveness

QAD

Managing an Inventory Investment. Inventory effectiveness measures the process that delivers the right part to the right place at the right time, while minimizing investment and meeting customer requirements. Inventory Turns: This represents the number of times a company sells and replaces its stock of goods during a given period.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network. This enables improved estimated arrival times of goods. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages.

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IoT Benefits for Supply Chain Operations

Enterra Insights

1] Because IoT solutions affect every stage of supply chain operations, all supply chain professionals need to be better informed, not just manufacturing professionals. ” Inventory Management. Inventory embedded with the proper sensors can be tracked in real-time via the IoT. Now, the cobot brings everything to the picker.”

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Supply Chain Digitization: Starting the Journey

Requis

Still others have invested in expensive enterprise resource planning systems, only to abandon them because they just don’t map to the natural workflows of procurement, asset management, and disposition. As a discipline, supply chain is just starting on the digitization journey. It’s easy to see why. The Imperative.

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Supply Chain Digitization: Starting the Journey

Requis

Still others have invested in expensive enterprise resource planning systems, only to abandon them because they just don’t map to the natural workflows of procurement, asset management, and disposition. As a discipline, supply chain is just starting on the digitization journey. It’s easy to see why. The Imperative.

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Companies Using ERP: Case Studies

QAD

Initially, the motivation was optimizing their financial and accounting operations, but eventually management and IT teams also wanted one source of truth to support company-wide processes, like sales forecasting and planning, maintenance planning, quality management and fixed asset management. Time and cost savings.

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Laying the Groundwork for IoT Innovation in the Warehouse

RFgen

Organizations that hope to leverage IoT systems in the warehouse need to lay the groundwork through data-focused innovation. This is especially evident in warehouse settings, where connected devices of various sorts have long been in use to handle complex inventory and asset management tasks. The IoT on the Rise.