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Companies Cannot Transform Through AI Alone

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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How Satisfied Are Companies With Their TMS?

Talking Logistics

Read more The post How Satisfied Are Companies With Their TMS? Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of “Satisfaction with TMS Software,” a research report that highlights results from a survey conducted with members of Indago’s supply chain research community and JBF Consulting’s customer community. The global transportation management.

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How Supply Chain & Logistics Companies are Mitigating Labor Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

The study also provided insight into what companies are doing to address it. The research report What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge? In addition, the report shows what companies are doing to attract and retain employees to mitigate workforce challenges today and in the future.

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Labor Shortages: What Are Supply Chain and Logistics Companies Doing to Survive the Challenge?

Talking Logistics

Read more The post Labor Shortages: What Are Supply Chain and Logistics Companies Doing to Survive the Challenge? In a January 2022 episode we discussed, “The Labor Shortage Problem: Why It’s Bigger Than You Think.” A couple of months ago Chris shared insights from a. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Gartner Top 25: The Beauty Contest of Underperformers

Supply Chain Shaman

My LinkedIn news feed is full of congratulatory notes for companies listed on the Gartner Top 25 released yesterday. Tech companies celebrate their companies on the list, consultants give themselves pats on the back, and the companies making the list congratulate their employees. Conclusion Make your own decision.

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Reshoring and Domestic Manufacturing Incentives: Impacts on Supply Chain Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Spearheaded by initiatives like those championed during Donald Trump’s past presidency (and likely during his upcoming term), policies promoting domestic manufacturing—such as tax breaks, tariffs, and regulatory incentives—have redefined how companies approach their supply chains. Compliance with U.S.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. Enter Growth Innovation —a focused, measurable approach that directly drives top-line revenue and company value.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That's what drove the five companies in this eBook to change their approach to analytics. Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today's data-driven applications. And they won’t cut it for your end users, your development team, or your business.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.

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How a Fortune 500 Company Transformed its Supply Chain Using a Digital Twin-Enabled Control Tower

Supply chain plays a crucial role for this Fortune 500 automotive manufacturer. With the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, along with demand and supply fluctuations in the subsequent years, many manufacturers, including this one, saw significant stress on their global supply chains.