One of the major findings from the 27th Annual State of Logistics report is that "gaps" in infrastructure and "accelerating trends for speed" will increasingly put pressure on a logistics system not designed for e-commerce driven "last mile, last minute" delivery service.
Scan-based trading (SBT) is often thought of as a process solely for larger big box retailers. This business model transitions the relationship with suppliers from purchased inventory to vendor-managed inventory, with the checkout scan data serving as the channel to pay for the goods to the distributor. The data collected from the transactions is then delivered to the distributor, as a form of a receipt.
MercuryGate International Inc. has entered into a partnership with Thoroughbred Direct Intermodal Services, Inc. (TDIS), a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Endries International, a distributor of fasteners and related production supplies, is offering its customers an RFID-driven service that automatically replenishes parts inventory. The service is designed to help its customers prevent out-of-stocks, speed up replenishment times and reduce the amount of inventory they need to keep on hand.
Global manufacturing companies say they have realized good results by adopting cloud applications, and they plan to accelerate cloud use dramatically by 2017 - especially in their manufacturing, engineering and operations groups. Some of the biggest benefits have come from lower IT costs, higher employee productivity, better data visibility and gains in process automation.
Technology is an invaluable asset for sourcing teams, but it's not the end-all and be-all. In fact, for many organizations, evaluating vendors and deploying procurement technology can quickly become a major headache due to a lack of differentiation, long implementation time-lines and steep learning curves. Even when implementation goes smoothly, many procurement departments find themselves in a precarious position following deployment - they have a new, powerful technology at their disposal, but not enough people or internal resources to fully take advantage of its benefits and functionality.
Challenge: A distributor of industrial equipment found itself saddled with siloed applications running in a fragmented IT environment that provided little visibility. Productivity suffered as staff had to manually process, import and export data across multiple systems, and a lack of real-time client information was causing needless delays and lost opportunities for sales and customer service.
BlueStar, Inc., a global distributor of ADC, mobility, point-of-sale, radio frequency identification, digital signage and security technology, is now offering the new ZD410 and ZD420 desktop printers from Zebra Technologies.
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