New technologies could soon provide even more facility workers in manufacturing and supply chains with the opportunity to take on their job without being on site.
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Q3 2021 MHI Solutions: Digital Supply Chains Are Now Table Stakes
While the pandemic shows signs of waning, the world and your supply chain will never be the same. Transparent and resilient supply chains are now table stakes. The good news is the technology tools are available, it is just a matter of prioritizing and planning these critical supply chain investments. Firms that answer that call will be ready to respond, ...
Read More »Digital Supply Chains Are Now Table Stakes
Some companies have thrived over the last year—largely because they made forward looking investments in digital supply chain innovation.
Read More »Q2 2021 MHI Solutions: Innovation Driven Resilience
It is now clear that the supply chain transparency and resilience provided by digital innovation is the difference-maker between companies that can respond, recover and thrive when disruption hits and those that cannot. COVID will not be the last disruption and future survival depends on investment in innovation driven resilience. This issue of MHI Solutions focuses on the top technologies ...
Read More »Supply Chain Resilience Is Key to Responding, Recovering and Thriving Amid Disruption
By John Paxton, CEO, MHI Digital supply chain innovation has been the common theme over the last eight MHI Annual Industry Reports. However, the pandemic drove home the necessity of digital innovation as a core supply chain competency—and it has catapulted this opportunity to the top of CEOs’ agendas. For some, the pandemic served as a proof of concept for ...
Read More »Powering Up: Battery and Charging Innovations Support Productivity Improvements
By Sheryl S. Jackson In the quest to improve productivity, decrease costs and enhance safety in the warehouse or distribution facility, owners and managers look to a variety of equipment, technology and training. There is, however, one area that usually does not top the list of actions considered essential for performance improvement. “Batteries and battery charging technology are often overlooked ...
Read More »Q1 2021 MHI Solutions: The Age of Robotics and Automation in the Supply Chain
Merging these robotics and automated solutions with other digital technologies like IoT, AI, advanced analytics, AR/VR and cloud computing grows the resiliency firms need and builds in the visibility necessary to deliver on ever-changing consumer demands as well as mitigating future shocks. This issue of MHI Solutions tackles this important topic to help you answer these questions with best practices, ...
Read More »The New Age of Supply Chain Automation
By John Paxton, CEO, MHI The pandemic has thrown many challenges into supply chains, and rarely have leaders faced such complex and changing conditions. What COVID-19 revealed is that many supply chains grew brittle in their decades-long quest for cost-savings while others that invested in emerging technologies and risk-planning proved to be agile and resilient enough to survive, and even ...
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