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The benefits of supply chain and logistics technology are well known: Automation and speed increase, assets are used more efficiently, costs are lowered and customer satisfaction improves. But what’s far more difficult – and less understood – is determining which technology to invest in order to...

Our own Chuck Fuerst and Dan Radunz contributed commentary on supply chain management to this month’s Food Logistics magazine. In the cover story about warehouse automation, Fuerst is quoted on the success of HighJump’s App Station. In the article “Six Ways WMS Can Improve Operations,” Radunz...

  Chuck Fuerst’s latest commentary on the Logistics Viewpoints site discusses the macro-level lifestyle trends influencing supply chain management and software solutions. The consumerization of IT has changed how the entire business world interacts with data. This holds true for the supply chain...

HighJump’s senior vice president of product strategy and development, Dan Radunz, was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of supply chain software challenges and solutions. That discussion can be found in Part 1 and Part 2 on Manufacturing Business Technology’s website. Dan notes some of...

More manufacturers are moving back due to supply chain management systems uncertainty abroad, coupled with heightened labor rates in China and increased U.S. shipping costs. According to a Los Angeles Times article, a quarterly survey by Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation...

In Inbound Logistics, our own Chuck Fuerst recently discussed how 3PLs can make their business more attractive to current and potential clients by proactively responding to market demands and distinguishing themselves in a commoditized logistics industry. For example, providing clients access to...

A recent SupplyChainBrain article reported on “supply chain segmentation” with Chris Gordon of Wipro Technologies explaining the idea and its benefits.   Companies segmenting supply chains based on category are common, though the less common approach is the “cost to serve” concept. This is when a...

HighJump's director of product strategy, Chuck Fuerst, authored this article in Manufacturing Business Technology about cloud-based warehouse management systems (WMS). HighJump was one of the first WMS companies to deploy in the cloud, and our software provides a foundation of best practices for...

DC Velocity recently polled 333 respondents on their expectations for the economy and plans for purchasing supply chain management and logistics services. Just over a fourth of the survey respondents were from the manufacturing sector, 26 percent from distribution, 23 percent were service providers,...

A recent SupplyChainBrain article reported on a study by Procurian which found that tighter handling of indirect spending in areas such as IT, supply chain management, marketing and energy could save big businesses millions when managed with a continuous and holistic approach. According to...