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Editor’s Pick: Fundamentals of a Successful Transportation Management System

Talking Logistics

Read more The post Editor’s Pick: Fundamentals of a Successful Transportation Management System appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. This recent post by Brad Forester from JBF Consulting’s blog highlights the most frequent traps shippers fall into during the project phase.

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Exotec’s Skypod System – A Unique Solution Designed to Address Supply Chain Challenges

Logistics Viewpoints

This week, EXOTEC launched the next generation of its Skypod System, designed to address supply chain challenges with robotic automation. These requirements necessitate solutions that can address the need for high throughput, warehouse storage density, and a goods-to-person system capable of handling both case and each picking.

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The Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the average company struggles to integrate robots from multiple vendors with their existing systems and processes, as well as divide and orchestrate work across humans and machines. Enter the Warehouse Execution System Fortunately, this purpose-built solution already exists, and it’s called a warehouse execution system (WES).

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What Does a Tier 1 Warehouse Management System Include?

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A Tier 1 WMS Should be Capable of Complex Optimization ARC Advisory Group does global market research on the warehouse management system market. Warehouse execution systems emerged to optimize work across both the manual and more automated parts of the warehouse. We write about trends in this study.

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment.

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Lucas Systems is more than a Voice Vendor; They are a Warehouse Optimization Solution

Logistics Viewpoints

Lucas Systems Offers Warehouse Optimization Warehouse management systems, once known as supply chain execution systems, have evolved significantly. Adjoining systems—like Voice Recognition, Vision-directed Workflow solutions, and Robotics solutions—can also provide significant warehouse optimization capabilities.

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Three Transportation Management System (TMS) Essentials Your Logistics Teams May Be Missing Out On

Talking Logistics

The second-best thing they can do is to equip those experts with a best-in-class Transportation Management System (TMS). The modern transportation management system (TMS) is the cornerstone.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier. For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

They integrate reasoning with LLM inputs so that employees can provide directions in natural language and the agents will pull data and interact directly through internal systems and external stakeholders. These agents self-reflect with a memory engine that allows them to learn from mistakes.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

We’ll show you how to create a unified system with your sales team to help them land more qualified opportunities and connect with prospects like never before. In this ebook, we’ll walk you through how to leverage strong data and go-to-market tools to unlock the five stages of ABM: define, identify, engage, convert, and connect.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system. Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

Brittle supply chains, fragmented systems landscapes, unreliable and inaccurate data, as well as poorly managed IT and business networks are consistently reported as top concerns, which is why executives are increasingly prioritizing digital transformation.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Strategically aligning your systems and teams. In this eBook, we’ll discuss leading strategies to create a marketing-led growth strategy for 2021 and beyond, including: Positioning your organization for automation. Getting consensus on how to define “qualified leads”.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

📈 Scaling for Seasonal Peaks: Prepare for fluctuations like spring DIY trends or holiday surges with flexible, scalable systems. . 🚚 Tailored Customer Delivery: Deliver exceptional experiences through specialized services that align with customer expectations.

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

The "TMS+" approach is more than a standalone Transportation Management System (TMS). Today’s question becomes: How do you leverage data to automate and optimize across the full order lifecycle?