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Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem of factors that impact the Goods Transportation and Logistics (T&L) industry.
- Explore how your IT team is set to deal with those factors from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective.
- Leverage expert insights and takeaways and update your IT strategy accordingly.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Goods Transportation & Logistics Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Goods Transportation & Logistics Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics Data-Driven Everything Report
- Data is the new currency. The massive amount of data being generated through emerging technologies is an ever-increasing challenge for IT.
- Enabling analytics through big data and machine learning/artificial intelligence can optimize planning and performance analyses, improve response to threats, and provide visibility into execution.
- Learn about how the data-driven everything trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics Extreme Automation Report
- Automation eliminates the trade-off between service levels and essential labor costs when it’s part of a logistics operating model, but IT’s role in automation isn’t always clear.
- Learn about how the extreme automation trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics New Tech Business Models Report
- Competition has forced traditional Goods T&L companies to develop new business models that heavily depend on technology.
- While new tech brings plenty of challenges to IT departments, it also brings a wealth of opportunities with a new level of leadership required to champion the changes.
- Learn about how the new tech business models trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. Transportation & Logistics IT staffing is stretched thin.
- Higher-than-normal turnover and a lack of new talent coming in suggests that T&L IT could be facing a tough future as it contends with accelerating adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more strategic.
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Goods Transportation & Logistics IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- Transportation & Logistics organizations receive high satisfaction marks from their stakeholders, yet client-facing technology and data quality, two areas very important to business strategy and operations, require more investment and attention.
- Understand important common focus areas to address, and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Goods Transportation & Logistics IT teams.
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Core Industry Technologies
Goods Transportation & Logistics Transportation Management Systems Report
- Transportation management systems (TMSs) are deployed to improve shipping efficiency, reduce costs, gain real-time supply chain visibility, and ensure customer satisfaction.
- SaaS deployment reduces risk and makes TMS accessible and essential for any Goods T&L business because of its ROI, driven by reduced freight costs and increased service levels.
- Learn about what a TMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Goods Transportation & Logistics Enterprise Resource Planning Report
- Modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have a lot to offer in automating processes, reducing the amount of manual and routine work, and facilitating the flow of information across business units.
- But ERP implementation projects are long, complex, and costly initiatives, which drive massive changes to the way people work.
- Learn about what ERP is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Goods Transportation & Logistics Warehouse Management Systems Report
- A WMS is deployed to decrease errors in picking and shipping goods, improve inventory accuracy and visibility, and reduce dock-to-stock and receiving dwell time.
- A player in the Goods T&L industry needs to understand where the greatest WMS value is and select solutions accordingly.
- Learn about what a WMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Goods Transportation & Logistics Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Transportation & Logistics – The Essential Ten-Step Guide: Building and Communicating Your CIO Strategy for COVID-19
Date published
April 23, 2020
Author:
CIOs in Transportation & Logistics will play a critical role during the COVID-19 crisis. This is an opportunity to shine. Use this plan to help you build and communicate a clear strategy for the next 90 days, allowing you to demonstrate both leadership and technology capability.
Transportation & Logistics: Next Steps From the CIO COVID-19 Strategy Webinar
Date published
April 23, 2020
Author:
The CIO will play a critical role across this crisis, and it is an opportunity to shine. This is a key time for CIOs to demonstrate leadership and technology capability. Transportation & Logistics organizations will look to IT for a clear technology strategy to support recovery efforts and readiness for the next crisis.
Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Transportation & Logistics Industry Roundtable
Date published
December 19, 2019
Authors:
Info-Tech LIVE took place November 19-21 in Las Vegas, NV. Here, we hosted nine Industry Roundtables focused on the direct and longer-term ripple effects of Industry 4.0 and its hallmark technologies on the different industry sectors. Read this summary of the Transportation & Logistics conversation to learn the main challenges and opportunities your peers think Industry 4.0 presents, and what they think are the next steps to manage this sea change successfully.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in Transportation and Supply Chain Logistics Is an Important Complement to the IT Strategy
Date published
August 15, 2019
Author:
The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.
Problematic IT Processes for Transportation and Warehousing: Performance Measurement, Managing Service Catalog, and Business Process Controls & Internal Audit
Date published
May 13, 2019
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Goods Transportation & Logistics Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.