I wrote a lot about Business Intelligence (BI) last year (see “Making Smarter Decisions Faster“), and it’s one of the “attributes of tomorrow’s industry leaders” that I’ve been speaking about recently. What is BI? Here is my quick definition: “BI is about empowering people, across all levels of the organization, to make smarter and faster business decisions by providing them with a more detailed, accurate, and timely understanding
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Archive for March 2009 – Page 2
Over the past two months, I’ve been interviewing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) vendors, as I update our annual Warehouse Management Systems Worldwide Outlook study. Many vendors told a similar story of woe about 2008. The year started well, and then selling cycles began to lengthen in the third quarter. Many suppliers, particularly mid-size and smaller vendors, were not able to close any new software deals in the fourth quarter… Continue reading
Categories : Logistics Software Vendors, Logistics Technologies, Warehouse Management Systems
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Last week, my colleague Steve Banker wrote a posting on evaluating the B2B communication capabilities of logistics service providers (3PLs). Among the things he highlighted was the need to have “high tech, low tech, and no tech” approaches to on-boarding trading partners. This got me thinking again about something I wrote about last year: is there a role for social media technologies, like Twitter or Facebook, in… Continue reading
The desire to improve service is the main reason many companies are investing in information technology (IT). Achieving this goal is very difficult without a robust Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. The goal of sales and operations planning is to achieve high service levels by effectively balancing demand with supply. This requires both internal and external collaboration. Internally, at a minimum, the manufacturing, demand planning, and sales and marketing… Continue reading
Categories : Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Logistics Technologies, Supply Chain Planning
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It’s been more than a decade in the making, but Mexico is finally taking action against the United States for violating the terms of NAFTA. Specifically, the U.S. was supposed to allow Mexican trucks to travel on border-state roads in 1995, and to drive anywhere in the country by January 2000. Citing safety concerns, the U.S. has kept this NAFTA provision stuck in 1995, restricting Mexican truckers to a 20-mile… Continue reading
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