The top driver for change in supply chains is the need to retain customers yet the least important element of a supply chain is the quality of service, according to a 2016 IDC Manufacturing Insights supply chain survey. Looking at priorities through 2017, reducing costs and eliminating waste was the top priority and customer-centricity...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
The Future of Business is Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI), also known as cognitive technology, is increasingly being adopted by leading businesses –and one of the initial trending areas of application is in supply chain.
Like other significant technological innovations of the past...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Cognitive technologies, also known as artificial intelligence, are perhaps the most transformative of our era. In fact, technology and economics are aligning in a way that puts society at a tipping point.
Cognitive technologies can understand all forms of data and continually learn about that data and related subjects...
Published: Aug 29, 2018
Some of the major and key challenges that have arisen today are that the majority of retailers lack experience in implementing a distributed order management (DOM) system, resulting in challenges around design, scope, implementation time scales and costs. These can cause unplanned compromises in the final implementation....
Published: Aug 22, 2018
How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank?
See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory:
Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas
Optimize in real-time...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Eine aktuelle Studie von Aberdeen hat ergenem, dass Vertriebs-Teams im Durchschnitt nur 55% des angestrebten Jahresumsatzes erzielen. Das auf den Performance-Statistiken aller befragten Vertriebsorganisation basierende Ergebis ist besorgnisationen.
In diesem Zusammenhang gaben 44% der Vertrieborganisationen...
Published: Jun 19, 2018
New game, new rules. It did not happen overnight, but it happened. Commoditization and global competition have put the squeeze on nearly every industry. To make matters worse, financial markets have become more demanding than in decades past. Everyone is looking for sustainable growth, but few have found the secret formula...
Published: Jun 08, 2013
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Published: Jun 07, 2016
It's no secret: content creators are finding it impossible to keep up with the demand for unique experiences among the explosion of devices, channels, and markets. On average, enterprises manage 268 customer-facing websites and mobile apps*, but amid this complex digital ecosystem, there has been no easy...
Published: May 04, 2016
The digital tools powering today's modern businesses make work faster, easier and more accurate. But there's still one tool that many companies have yet to adopt - the electronic signature.
If you're still using archaic, paper-based processes to get documents signed, you're not alone. 80% of business...
Published: Jun 19, 2018
The role of those in charge of employees in a company have various methods that can be used to help make the company and all employees better suited for one another. It is typically through benefits, salary and work environment that employees become better workers and more loyal to a firm. This, however, can be supported...
Published: Mar 29, 2013
Tips for Managing Employees Working from Home, Copyright ®, All Rights Reserved. 1Telecommuting. Working from home. Remote employees. Regardless to what it is called, working from anywhere other than the company office is becoming increasingly popular for employees and employers alike. The ability for more employers...
Published: Mar 09, 2014
In this on-demand webinar we will go beyond the basic explanation of how to handle an OSHA inspection. This program will cover specific strategies to effectively manage the process in today’s environment where OSHA citations can cost an employer and its customers thousands of dollars in repeat citations. This on-demand...
Published: Jan 12, 2013
The threshold issue to address in determining whether ERISA, which stands for the Employee Retirement Security Income Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001, et seq., governs employee benefit plans or claims is to determine whether or not a “plan” exists within the meaning of the ERISA statute. It has been...
Published: Apr 12, 2015