September kicked off another busy season of conferences, and first up for me was MercuryGate’s User Conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. This was the fifth consecutive year that I’ve attended and spoken at this conference (the focus of my talk this year was “Mobile Technologies in Supply Chain”) and my immediate observation was how large the event has grown, both in terms of attendees and agenda scope… Continue reading
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(Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a series of postings on labor standards. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2).
Discrete labor standards are more accurate than other types of standards, such as single and multi-variable, for several reasons.
First, with discrete standards, travel time allocation is based on a warehouse map, which you can use to calculate the distance an associate… Continue reading
As we have written about in previous Logistics Viewpoints postings, most retailers admit that they do a poor job at in-store logistics. Per our definition, in-store logistics spans from the store’s loading dock to the shelf. HBS Working Knowledge recently published an article by Julia Hanna (“How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ‘Last 10 Yards’ Problem”) based on research conducted by Zeynep Ton, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations… Continue reading
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for news. Here are some of the items that caught our attention:
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Guest Commentary: Transportation’s Next Iteration of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is an integral part of advanced transportation management systems (TMS) and is largely viewed as providing the greatest time to value (see recent posting by Adrian Gonzalez of ARC Advisory Group titled, “Time-to-Value: Developing a SaaS Equivalent for 3PLs”). But as often happens when an innovative technology becomes widely adopted, users’ expectations rise a notch, opening the way for further refinements (see diagram below). In this case… Continue reading
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