November, 2016

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Drax enlists the support of Crimson & Co to help revolutionise its planning processes

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Energy firm Drax, which supplies up to approximately eight per cent of the UK's electricity needs, is enhancing its business processes following the successful implementation of a new Advanced Planning Scheduling (APS) system.

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Demystifying cobot safety: The four types of collaborative operation

Universal Robots

Collaborative robots have become the buzzword in industrial automation. At Universal Robots, we define ‘collaborative‘ by ease-of-use, ease of integration, and affordability, and safe. In this blog, we focus on how the safety aspect is defined by the current safety standard. In February, Universal Robots welcomed the new.

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Keep Calm. You're Prepared. (Right?)

Manufacturers Alliance

While the events most often planned for are site- or natural disaster–related, businesses should also include workplace violence, terrorism, and cyberattacks in their business preparedness efforts. This is especially true given the nature of black swan events as those that (1) take place outside of regular expectations, (2) carry an extreme impact, and (3) seem obvious, explainable, and predictable in hindsight.

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Supply chain complexity and too many KPIs named as the key challenges logistics professionals are facing

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

An international survey of 500 global logistics professionals reveals agreement on the need to reduce supply chain complexities, fine tune key performance indicators (KPIs) and offer a consistent customer experience across all channels.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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NeoGrid to attend Argyle’s 2016 Leadership in Supply Chain Management & Procurement Forum

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

NeoGrid, a global technology provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, is the Senior Supporter Partner of the Argyle Executive Forum's 2016 Leadership in Supply Chain Management & Procurement Forum on Nov. 16, 2016 at The Fitzpatrick Grand Central in New York City.

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Chief Robotics Officer - a leader in innovation

Universal Robots

Technology has always been a crucial driver of change in human history; the invention of the wheel, the steam engine, or the internet. Robotics and automation technologies will definitely be seen as a game-changer, even if the extent of change brought about is still to come. While robots have been used in industrial processes.

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New Blue Yonder solution helps grocers to optimise replenishment for fresh assortments

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Set against a backdrop of declining profitability and significant changes in consumer lifestyles, retailers are under pressure to deliver the best freshness and optimal availability to their customers without the ability manage cost-to-serve.

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Three in four Brits snub retailers with slow customer service

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., provider of cloud services for customer engagement, communications and collaboration, has released research revealing that over three quarters of UK consumers (79 per cent) will use a different retailer if they don't receive a timely response from customer service.

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Key manufacturing takeaways from JDA FocusConnect 2016

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Franck Lheureux, Regional Vice President, EMEA, JDA Software. As 2016 draws to a close, it's clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry.

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Cooper Software to undertake further QlikView product for Butcher’s Pet Care

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Following on from the success of previous IFS, ACQUIRE and QlikView projects for leading independent pet food manufacturer, Butcher's Pet Care, Cooper Software has been selected to deliver a further QlikView project for the company.

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Modernizing MES: A Guide for Complex Manufacturers Adapting to Industry 4.0

As engineers push the boundaries of innovation with groundbreaking hardware products, their success depends largely on the speed and efficiency of production. The challenge? Manual processes and disparate systems lead to multiple versions of documents, incomplete records, and duplicated work, creating a chaotic system of records that is difficult to manage.

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68% of the manufacturing industry ‘is incentivised with gifts from suppliers’

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Rewarding corporate clients for their custom and loyalty has always been big business, but new data has revealed that the practice is more common place in the manufacturing industry than any other.

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New study finds 93% of UK Millennials lack trust in online retail, despite e-commerce on the rise

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

UK Millennials have growing security concerns around sharing personal information with retailers, but their need for a convenient shopping experience still outweighs these worries, according to new research released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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Ashley Furniture selects LLamasoft as supply chain design technology of choice

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

LLamasoft, the supply chain design software solutions provider, has announced that Ashley Furniture Industries (Ashley) has selected LLamasoft as its supply chain design software provider of choice.

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Consistent product data crucial to optimising processes

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Quick access to shipping information enables businesses to plan their processes more efficiently.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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A10 Networks' Cloud vision comes to life with introduction of A10 Lightning Application Delivery Service (ADS) for Cloud applications

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A10 Networks, the secure application services company, has rolled out its A10 Lightning Application Delivery Service (ADS) — a Cloud-native software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to boost the delivery and security of applications and microservices across public, private and hybrid clouds.

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Supply chain transformation - having the competitive edge

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Mikko Kärkkäinen, Group CEO, Relex Solutions. Supply chain management was once a relative backwater, but in recent years it has moved decisively center stage. A well-managed supply chain operation is, increasingly, a critical factor, even the critical factor, in a business's success.

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Fear of supply chain collapse keeps many online retailers in unhappy relationships

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

According to William Walker, sales director of Berkshire-based Walker Logistics Ltd, online retailers continue to employ under-performing fulfilment services partners for far longer than they should because of a misguided fear that switching to another supplier will result in a hiatus when customer orders will go unfulfilled.

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TIBCO Insight Platform enhances intelligent business operations with data management and analytics logic

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

TIBCO Software Inc., a global provider of integration, API management, and analytics solutions, has announced its TIBCO Insight Platform solution for facilitating faster and more informed decisions and actions on the business.

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Mastering Digital Transformation: Your Guide to a Successful MES Implementation

70% of digital transformation projects fail (BCG, 2020). In an industry where most large software implementations falter, we recognize the importance of planning, optimization, and execution. With over 25 years of industry experience and countless successful implementations, MASS Group is opening the vault of tips and tricks to provide a complimentary step-by-step guide in implementing a Work-In-Progress (WIP) tracking software.

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Thinking outside the box when it comes to Christmas discounting

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Ian Webster, Chief Customer Officer, Big Data For Humans. Christmas is now just over 4 weeks away and we all know what that means for retailers.

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