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Don’t Wait to Innovate: 3 Key Benefits of Causal Forecasting

Logility

Let’s consider a simple example—daily sales of ice cream. For example, the sales of ice cream (dependent variable) could be influenced by the average temperature (independent variable), the day of the week, the season of the year, promotional activities, etc. Don’t wait to reap these benefits.

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Evaluating Innovative Technology with Warehouse Simulation

Logistics Viewpoints

Examples of use. For example, you can compare fixed automation with the use of autonomous mobile robots. Further customization in the simulation software, for example, allows adjustment of the height or width of a rack and the number of storage locations. Driving performance. Making the best use of space. Tying it all together.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. It also includes information taken from HWI’s web site. For example, the bricks in a pizza oven are refractory bricks.

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Trends and Predictions 2020: Information Technology

Enterra Insights

Information technology (IT) is an umbrella term covering a variety of technologies. Bill Gates ( @BillGates ) once stated, “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. In this article, I’m equating “information” with “data.” ” IT predictions.

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How manufacturers can enable innovation on the factory floor

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There is a common cliche that necessity is the mother of invention – and by extension, innovation. The past two and half years have certainly brought a variety of challenges and opportunities that have made innovation not just a preference, but essential for manufacturers and distributors to thrive into the future.

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Necessity is the Mother of Innovation

Logility

In the midst of the seeming chaos many brilliant minds have been working in overdrive to develop innovative solutions to many of obstacles that lie in our way. These are just a few of the countless and amazing innovations we hear about on a daily basis. For example, why is the U.S. But that’s not the whole story.

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How to Create Successful and Innovative Products!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Product innovation is at the center of many success stories. Every product that exists now, or that existed before, was once an innovation. The most notable innovative products of late have been mostly technological. The term ‘disruptive innovation’ is used quite a lot these days. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.