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  • Portable computing devices e-Con also offers a Smart Client application that can be run offline on portable computing devices.

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  • Important features Product Center introduces important features to Microsoft Dynamics AX, including extended product descriptions, specifications, classifications. read more »
  • Important features Product Center introduces important features to Microsoft Dynamics AX, including extended product descriptions, specifications, classifications. read more »

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  • Manage data User-friendly tool to manage data for manufacturing parts.

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5 Books to Read for Elevating Warehouse Management

Warehouse Management BooksThere are many ways to acquire information to better manage warehouse management. From the Internet to trade publications, there’s a lot from which to choose. No matter your preference, I still like to sit back and focus my attention on a good book.

This is why I thought I would to put together a post about books for warehouse management professionals. Each covers different topics and ways to boost efficiency and lower costs.

Let me know if you’ve read these books and your thoughts on them. Do you have others to add to this list?

Warehouse Management: 3 Elements to the Warehouse Evolution

warehouse management warehouse evolutionChange and evolution are always in the mind of good warehouse professionals– this is especially true in the warehouse management and supply chain management spaces. I know it may sound like a broken record, but if you don’t keep the big picture in mind, your competition will pass you by.

Our own Guido van Osch touched on this in a recent OnWindows.com publication and I would like to share his thoughts with you. I believe he hits the nail on the head here, and that we should all think about in the coming warehouse evolution.

Van Osch writes:

5 Ways to Evaluate Warehouse Management Solutions

evaluating warehouse management solutions

Every warehouse professional knows they can benefit from a system that streamlines and automates processes. In our quest to find the right warehouse management solution, you must first evaluate your options.

Today, I want to give you a few ways to evaluate warehouse management solutions and get you on the road to having better insight and productivity in your organization.

5 Ways To Warehouse Management Solutions

The Tactical Side of Supply Chain Management

supply chain management strategyRunning a supply chain requires many components to make it a completely functional and effective system. This means things like strategies, tactics and daily operations. The problem isn’t necessarily getting everything working; it’s ensuring your choices meet the expectations from your customers.

Today, I want to touch on the tactical side of the supply chain and point out a few areas that are crucial to growing your supply chain management operations – not just maintaining them.

Tactical Supply Chain Management

Inventory

The Technology Behind Retail Warehouse Management

retail warehouse technologiesStaying competitive in the retail warehouse management business is the business equivalent of “keeping up with the Jones’s.” Why? The technology to get warehouse operations in top form is always changing and that means keeping up with those competitors who understand what technology means to success.

I do believe if you’re the one that competitors have to keep up with, then you set the standard – which is ultimately what you want. To start setting that bar, let’s look at some technologies any retail warehouse management professional should keep in their toolbox for optimal efficiency and staying ahead of the pack.

Flowcharting With Microsoft Dynamics Workflow

Some think in terms of data. Others think of the same data, but require a visual representation of the information. For those who require visual confirmation of manufacturing business operations and processes, Microsoft Dynamics Workflow incorporates flowcharting into it’s features.

This helps both sides of the brain visualize and analyze the big picture. For a more detailed look at what this gives your manufacturing business, let’s take a deeper look at the merger of processing and visual decision-making.

Microsoft Dynamics Workflow Flowcharting

The flow of data in a manufacturing business is never ending. This data, along with how it impacts processes needs a visual representation of its “flow.”

How Notification Management Shrinks – And Expands – Your Warehouse

Expanding your warehouse management system is a topic that might loom over your head – maybe even more now than ever. With expansion come challenges and opportunities, but how do you widen your warehouse’s reach and keep your team tighter and in sync?

Let me step back a second and give you this scenario instead:

You’re away from the office and there’s an important issue with the import of an outside ERP dataset, which results in a delay in your chain schedule. How did you know about it? With notification management, you receive a message to your mobile phone or other device; now you can manage the situation from anywhere, at anytime.

5 Simple, Powerful Ways to Tighten Warehouse Notification Processes

As your warehouse operations expand and require additional management, does your notification management system contribute to process efficiency or simply broadcast messages to your organization?

Notifying key personnel of real-time statuses is critical, but taking advantage of the system’s advanced abilities makes notification management more efficient; this can lead to more effective warehouse management.

Although most WMS solutions have a host of additional features, for now, let’s focus on 5 key components that add the most value to your warehouse notification strategy.

5 Ways to Make Your Notification Management More Efficient

5 Steps to Reducing Industrial Equipment Manufacturing Costs in 2012

One of the main goals of every manufacturing equipment management department is to lower costs. Building richer functionality out-of-the-box while reducing unnecessary costs is on all of our minds. As we move into the year 2012, we have an opportunity to consider how we improve upon existing methods.

So how do we go about reducing the costs of high-tech machinery manufacturing, but still generate opportunities for further efficiency in our operations?

I’ve thought about this and I’ve broken down this answer into five steps. Let’s consider each and see how we can start reducing manufacturing and management costs in 2012:

Microsoft Dynamics WMS Video Case Study: SparKjøp Keeps Pace With Retail Trends & Retail Customers

See How Microsoft Dynamics WMS Helps SparKjøp Keep Up With Retail Trends - Keep Up With Retail Customers

Blog posts and articles talk a lot about keeping up with the latest retail trends.  But what about keeping up with retail customers?

SparKjøp, one of Norway’s largest mail order retailers, depends on keeping up with retail trends – including leveraging the latest retail supply chain management technology.  But with revenue of 115 million Euros per year, it is vital that every new piece of technology implemented ties back to how ensuring the right customers receive the right product within the timeframe it was promised.

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