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Despite Great Investment in Omnichannel, Only 16 Percent of Retailers, CPG Manufacturers Report Profitable Fulfillment

April 17, 2015

Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are spending an enormous amount of money, energy and time to improve their omnichannel sales capabilities, yet a JDA report reveals an unexpected and disturbing fact: despite these significant investments, only 16 percent of companies say they can fulfill omnichannel demand profitably today. Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are spending an enormous amount of money, energy and time to improve their omnichannel sales capabilities, yet a JDA report reveals an unexpected and disturbing fact: despite these significant investments, only 16 percent of companies say they can fulfill omnichannel demand profitably today.

Seeing Benefits of Cloud Computing, Manufacturers Worldwide Adopt the Technology, Study Finds

April 16, 2015

IDC Manufacturing Insights

The transition to "cloud also" or "cloud first" is well under way for manufacturers around the globe, according to survey results from International Data Corporation. In fact, in the United States, 41 percent of manufacturing respondents indicated they are accessing IT resources via the public cloud, based on the IDC Global Technology and Industry Research Organization IT Survey, 2014.

Enterprise Social Collaboration Fuels Innovative S&OP

April 14, 2015

Nathalie Regniers, Director, Industry & Product Marketing, Infor SCM & PLM

As the sales and operations planning (S&OP) leader, there are a few principal responsibilities: setting priorities, planning and executing your supply chain strategies, driving incremental improvements while quickly adapting to changing market and customer requirements, and linking changes in demand to changes in supply while keeping in mind the financial results. But that's just within the average day-to-day activity – it is also expected that advance changes in thinking and execution will be developed to help solve S&OP limitations.

Industry 4.0: The Future of Productivity, Growth in Manufacturing

April 14, 2015

Boston Consulting Group

Technological advances have driven dramatic increases in industrial productivity since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine powered factories in the 19th Century, electrification led to mass production in the early part of the 20th Century, and industry became automated in the 1970s. In the decades that followed, however, industrial technological advancements were only incremental, especially compared with the breakthroughs that transformed IT, mobile communications, and e-commerce.

As E-commerce Sales Boom, Companies Need to Have Digital Strategies

April 13, 2015

Internet Retailer

In a report projecting $780bn in United States B2B e-commerce sales this year and $1.132tr by 2020, Forrester Research encourages companies to get to work now on a digital strategy for dealing with customers.

SATO Expands NX Series with Next-gen 6-inch Industrial Thermal Printer

April 10, 2015

SATO

SATO, a global provider of Auto-ID solutions, has launched the CL6NX, a 6-inch industrial thermal printer designed for intuitive operation, easy integration and industrial-strength durability in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, healthcare and retail environments.

How To Avoid Mistakes When Using Data To Target Specific Retail Customers

April 10, 2015

RIS News

The IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark showed us that consumers are flocking to their computers and mobile devices to buy, browse and research. This all sounds great but, here is the challenge - at the same time their attention spans are at an all-time low. So, what does this mean for marketers and retailers?

IBM Plans Platform to Help Customers Build Internet of Things Systems

April 6, 2015

IBM

IBM says it will invest $3bn over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT systems.

Growth of Solar, Wind Industry to Increasingly Rely on IoT-based Technologies

April 6, 2015

ABI Research

ABI Research expects IoT-connected wind and solar installations to grow at a CAGR of 21 percent between 2014 and 2020 with the total number of connections growing from the almost 2 million in 2014 to 6.3 million in 2020.

Integrating Supply Chain Is Best Medicine for Healthcare Industry

April 1, 2015

Wall Street Journal

Fragmentation in the healthcare industry's supply chain inhibits the ability to evaluate clinical efficacy of purchased supplies, as well as identify opportunities to improve efficiency.