Last month, HighJump issued a press release that really caught my eye. It wasn’t so much the headline (“HighJump Software Offers Promotion Including Complementary ROI Assessment for Its Labor Management System”), but a sentence buried deep in the press release: “This special offer for HighJump Labor Advantage allows companies with constrained capital budgets to realize the benefits of a labor management system before paying for the license
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Archive for February 2009 – Page 2
Categories : Consulting Services, Labor, Logistics Software Vendors, Logistics Technologies
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I read a thought-provoking article in BusinessWeek last week by Jeff Jarvis (author of “What Would Google Do?”) that asked the following question: If Google ran a car company, what would it look like? You can read the article for Jeff’s ideas, but in a nutshell, he thinks The Big Three (can we still call them big?) need to transform their product design process, from a closed and… Continue reading
Video game visualization technology has come to the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) market. These new products and modules are not merely “slick” packages that are “nice to have” additions to a WMS solution. Whenever a software solution’s usability improves, new forms of productivity are enabled. The personal computer revolution, after all, was based as much on improved user interfaces as it was on increased computing power. These new video game-like… Continue reading
Categories : Logistics Software Vendors, Logistics Technologies, Warehouse Management Systems
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In medicine, researchers often study people who don’t get sick after getting exposed to an otherwise deadly virus to understand what enables their immunity, which can accelerate the development of a successful vaccine. Similarly, when it comes to logistics outsourcing, it’s sometimes useful to study the outliers to get a different perspective on what’s happening in the industry.
I use the medicine analogy because the “outlier” I’m focusing on… Continue reading
Categories : Logistics Outsourcing, Logistics Service Providers, Logistics Trends, Pharma & Life Sciences
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Congress passed the $787 billion “stimulus bill” this weekend and President Obama is scheduled to sign it tomorrow. One item that made it into the final version of the bill, despite some opposition, is a “Buy American” provision that reads “None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or… Continue reading
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