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Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is the topic du jour
everywhere you turn in the press and analyst community lately, and for good reason. But,
the real question is, what does it mean for enVista clients, and how do you stand to benefit?
Industry Shift Toward Cloud Computing
I recently attended Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference in Washington, DC. The event was quite impressive with over 9,500 participants from around the world. The overall conference theme was “Cloud Computing.” While the concept of cloud computing is not necessarily new, for a company like Microsoft where software revenue streams have been built on perpetual licenses, the fact that their entire Worldwide Partner Conference centered on this concept connotes a major shift in strategy...
Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates, a recognized leader in supply chain market research and a significant resource for companies selecting third-party logistics providers (3PLs), recently wrote this report, highlighting the strength of enVista’s services and vision...
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enVista invites you to attend a free, half-day educational workshop, “Achieving Supply Chain Cost Management and Labor Efficiency,” including a tour of Diamond Comic's new state-of-the-art distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
Join us and a select group of supply chain professionals for an interactive learning session on August 6, 2010 from 10:30am - 2:00pm EST on how to identify and address supply chain cost management opportunities to transform your business processes and achieve results.
As part of this workshop, attendees will tour Diamond Comic's newest facility which was recently featured as the cover story in Modern Materials Handling...
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WMS and automated materials handling technologies came to the assistance of Diamond Comics in a new distribution center. The result: better throughput and room to grow.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a... new order fulfillment system bringing big changes to Diamond Comic Distributors in a 600,000-square-foot distribution center in Olive Branch, MS!
Diamond Comics’ archenemy wasn’t The Joker, Dr. Doom or even Darth Vader. It was too much of a good thing: As Diamond Comics’ business expanded in recent years, so has the number of products—comics, graphic novels, action figures—and SKUs it ships to major retailers and mom and pop comic book stores both here and abroad...
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A big supply chain overhaul helped Nature’s Best maintain its competitive advantage.
If you were to ask Brian McCarthy, senior vice president of operations at Nature’s Best, about the scope of the company’s recent distribution overhaul, he would tell you, “it was one of the most challenging of his career.”
He says this in part because the project had so many interdependent moving parts—and because the scope was so large. To put this into perspective, the company transitioned from a four-building, multi-touch mechanized operation into a lean, one-touch, right-touch, one building system...
Excerpt from ARC's This Week in Logistics News (June 21-25, 2010) by Adrian Gonzalez
"The Next View-enVista alliance is interesting. Normally, consulting firms and SaaS vendors don’t mix together well. One of the benefits of SaaS, after all, is simplified implementation, which translates into minimal implementation services revenues for consulting firms. Then again, SaaS does not eliminate the need for quality engineering (including establishing labor standards), training, and project managementent, which is what enVista will focus on.
Also, enVista already works with a SaaS TMS vendor, MercuryGate, which the company uses to power its outsourced freight management service. A consulting firm providing managed transportation services—yet another example of the convergence I wrote about earlier this week in “Time-to-Value: Developing a SaaS Equivalent for 3PLs.”
by Eddie Capel, EVP Global Operations, Manhattan Associates
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enVista Fills Market Gap for Experienced Western European Supply Chain Consulting Resources with Firm Knowledge of Regional Business and Culture
...According to enVista President Jim Barnes, “As globalization continues to feed supply chain complexity, enVista has been increasingly consulting on and even managing clients’ European supply chain operations. Last year enVista announced its consulting presence in strategic locations throughout Europe. However, demand has increased to the point that we needed to establish formal European operations to better serve our transportation and distribution centric clients...”
Microsoft and enVista recently co-hosted an educational webcast on how leading retail organizations can implement a multi-channel fulfillment strategy for optimizing inventory management and merchandising decisions, improving customer service, and supporting multi-channel operations. Jim Barnes, president of enVista, and Jim Brownell, who has spent the last 25 years in information technology at leading retailers including: GAP, Williams-Sonoma, Coldwater Creek, J. Crew and Toys-R-Us.com, led the webcast.
Click to hear the entire webcast: "Multi-Channel Fulfillment for Retailers."
Al Gagnon, senior account executive with enVista, traces the history of labor-management applications in the warehouse, and talks about why and where the technology is catching on with companies today. Click here to download and watch this ten minute video as featured on supplychainbrain.com.
On-Demand Workforce Productivity Solutions result in 5% to 20% productivity improvements
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Do you have visibility to all of your labor costs? Can you easily identify wasted labor and the cost of that non-value added time? If not, your organization is missing an important opportunity to eliminate waste and save money. This report will present the benefits and saving that are possible with an on-demand Labor Management & Workforce Productivity solution...
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Most parcel agreements signed over the past ten years contain some form of revenue-based incentives. UPS calls them
Portfolio Tier Incentives. FedEx calls them Earned Discounts. Whatever they are called the concept is the same; incentives are at
least partially dependent on how much you spend with the carrier. Most shippers I have worked with have a heartfelt dislike of
revenue-based incentives. But, they don’t have to cause you pain IF you understand them and manage them properly...
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