- 21. Supply Chain and the TCJA Effect on Jobs
- (Management)
- ... to fill picking, packing, and shipping are offering perks rather than increased pay. Some are offering on-site child care or direct reimbursements for that expense. Others are offering game-oriented perks ...
- 22. Hospitals Can Save Money in Supply Chain
- (News)
- According to Healthcare Finance, hospitals overspend $10 million dollars a year in their supply chain. Supply chain costs for hospitals are the second biggest expense, with labor being the largest cost, ...
- 23. Reverse logistics will trash your inventory plans
- (Retail)
- It’s the 4th quarter of the year when retailers are finalizing their stock in anticipation of the holiday season. Historical trends set the stage for quantities, locations, and pricing but a major shift ...
- 24. Advances in transport technologies
- (Logistics)
- ... safer and less expensive. It’s estimated that in 10 years platooning and autonomous / driverless trucks will reduce expenses by more than $1,500 per truck per year. Increased fuel efficiency - Trucks ...
- 25. Looking at Omnichannel Fulfillment Costs
- (News)
- ... it means in a recent blog on his Supply Chain Matters site.Omnichannel shopping is driving top line growth, but expenses are growing even faster and logistics providers need to get them under control. ...
- 26. Need to Trim Supply Chain Costs?
- (News)
- Simple is good, especially when we're looking for ideas on cuttiing supply chain costs, right? In an article on the Business 2 Community site, Christopher Moore gives us a headstart with a few ideas on ...
- 27. Integration is Still an Issue
- (Integration)
- ... in the company will immediately understand the need for integration. Usually the biggest roadblock is the expense of making the commitment. Expenses include the software and systems, but more importantly ...
- 28. Big Data Rules in the Supply Chain
- (Management)
- ... longer periods using more data can be more accurate, thus delivering some measure of ROI against the additional expense of storing and analyzing the data. Category 2 is the area in which we step off the ...
- 29. All Hail to the Cloud
- (Technology)
- To say that software is moving to the cloud would be like coming late to the party. Yes, there is still software on your desktop machines and on your servers. But even the most ardent and heavyweight applications ...
- 30. Mind Your Data
- (Management)
- ... - an increase in its operating margin of more than 60%. OK that's 'operating margin' and not overall profitability. But what other kinds of measures could even be considered that could reduce expenses and ...
- 31. Using Behavior to Your Advantage
- (Management)
- ... in better shape, spend more time with my family, work smarter (not necessarily harder), decrease expenses, increase revenue, be the change I want to see in the world, end world hunger, get a super power... ...
- 32. Integrate Your Systems Now While Transaction Volume is Lower
- (Integration)
- ... is that this is the perfect time to implement an integration initiative. Integrations can be simple but are always a new experience for the company. Better to start when volumes are low (and expenses are ...
- 33. Save Time – And Money – With Electronic Order Processing
- (Management)
- ... Only technical glitches create any kind of delay, meaning when a customer places an order, it is added to your queue immediately. Thus expenses are lowered. Less manual labor is required of all involved ...
- 34. Locally Installed Software Is Dead
- (Management)
- ... tasks, the need for employees to be located in any particular place working on a specific computer will evaporate. For many companies this reality is already delivering higher productivity and lower expenses. ...
- 35. Suppliers in the Chain
- (Supply)
- ... them. The issue hasn’t changed much. It seems retailers still need to test the documents they are asking their suppliers to submit, and suppliers keep trying to lower their expenses by trying to avoid ...
- 36. Here Comes the Industrial IoT
- (Technology)
- ... a great boon to things like personal productivity, expense control, home security, and shopping efficiency. But anyone employed in, interested in, or affected by supply chains (in other words, pretty much ...
- 37. EDIINT, VANs, But Not SaaS?
- (EDI)
- One of the most frequently asked questions regarding EDI is about its cost. There's the initial cost of startup and the ongoing cost per transaction. And while startup costs are relatively easy to calculate, ...
- 38. Are We Putting Too Much Trust in Big Data ?
- (Technology)
- ... longer periods using more data can be more accurate, thus delivering some measure of ROI against the additional expense of storing and analyzing the data. Category 2 is the area in which we step off the ...
- 39. Tags Limit Visibility
- (Technology)
- ... done once and apply it to many customers, spreading the expense and reducing the time to implementation to minutes rather than months. The technology is largely in place and easily available through simple ...
- 40. The Cloud IS the Way... Really?
- (Technology)
- We've been tracking and writing about cloud based systems since the first issue of ec-bp.com. Of course back then in 2003 we referred to is as SaaS or even just 'online applications.' Since that time the ...
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