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4 Ways to Improve Productivity on the Shop Floor

Global Shop

With the Advanced Planning & Scheduling application , CSS now schedules more than 600 workcenters efficiently and accurately by automating the entire process. Manually building huge BOMs is a time-consuming, costly process in which mistakes are detrimental.

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How Retailers can Combat Inventory Shrinkage with Drone-Powered Warehouse Monitoring

Retail TouchPoints

Distribution centers (DCs) now need to be able to provide supplies directly to stores but also shift to direct-to-consumer (DTC) for online purchases. The drones photograph pallets (day or night); machine learning (ML) algorithms read bar codes and text and show warehouse management system (WMS) discrepancies in real time.

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Nike’s eCommerce Strategy, 4 Reasons Why Digital Sales are Soaring

Indigo 9 Digital

That year Nike launched its Consumer Direct Offence , an initiative “fueled by Nike’s Triple Double strategy: 2X Innovation, 2X Speed and 2X Direct connections with consumers.” One of the strategic moves Nike made to provide more direct connections with consumers was to rationalize its wholesale business.