The Connected Logistics Frontline: A New Frontier for Manufacturers: Part 2

Feb 16, 2023 11:14:00 AM . Julia Walsh

Understanding the challenges of connecting outbound and inbound logistics activities while connecting the frontline with the rest of the enterprise and making the most of digitization tools: Part 2

The initial post in this series explained how the warehouse-management landscape is changing and why considering logistics within this paradigm shift is important for manufacturers. As manufacturers pursue digital transformation, they often prioritize certain use cases and start with the areas most in need of digital tools before working toward lesser-priority items. When following this strategy, they often end up with complex IT infrastructures with multiple software applications and platforms, defeating the original purpose of digital transformation and replacing old legacy point solutions with shiny new ones.

The Connected Logistics Frontline: A New Frontier for Manufacturers

Feb 9, 2023 11:10:00 AM . Julia Walsh

Understanding the challenges of connecting outbound and inbound logistics activities while connecting the frontline with the rest of the enterprise and making the most of digitization tools: Part 1

As with most organizational projects, digitization has clearly defined priorities. Manufacturers tend to focus their digitization efforts on the production process and only move toward other functional areas after they have been able to establish a clear digital baseline for their operations. For functional areas beyond the shop floor like sales, marketing, customer service, supply chain, purchase, finance, and administration, there are software applications to partially, if not fully, control activities. However, even in highly digital value chains, logistical functions are either overlooked or kept at the end of the line for digitization.

Industrial Metaverse and the Relevance of the Workforce Intelligence Center

Feb 7, 2023 11:23:00 AM . Julia Walsh

“The industrial metaverse combines physical-digital fusion and human augmentation for industrial applications and contains digital representations of physical industrial environments, systems, assets and spaces that people can control, communicate, and interact with.” *Thierry Klein, President Bell Labs***

The word “metaverse” creates a thousand images and perhaps even more questions in our minds. Everyone is talking about this ubiquitous and unprecedented convergence of the virtual, real, and digital landscapes. While applications of VR, AR, and MR have existed for a while, it is the immersive nature of the metaverse and its ability to cause meaningful actions in the real world through actions taken in the virtual domain, and vice versa, that make it so interesting.

The Connected Logistics Frontline: A New Frontier for Manufacturers: Part 2

Understanding the challenges of connecting outbound and inbound logistics activities while connecting the frontline with the rest of the enterprise and making the most of digitization tools: Part 2

The Connected Logistics Frontline: A New Frontier for Manufacturers

Understanding the challenges of connecting outbound and inbound logistics activities while connecting the frontline with the rest of the enterprise and making the most of digitization tools: Part 1

Industrial Metaverse and the Relevance of the Workforce Intelligence Center

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