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Goods Transportation & Logistics
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Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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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.
Strategy Alignment
Strategically Phase in Technology to Bolster Supply Chain Management
- Adopt a holistic perspective on supply chain management (SCM) that breaks the siloes. Understand what SCM is to your organization.
- Improve alignment of the technology initiatives with business goals and provide a foundation for SCM solution business case.
- Evaluate the current state of your Supply Chain capabilities and identify ideal state prior to choosing a solution.
- Establish competitive and future-looking differentiation in SCM practices where it can be enabled by technology.
- Leverage best industry practices and evaluate your key differentiating abilities against technological maturity and the value it is capable of bringing.
- Develop a practical roadmap the whole organization can buy into and engage and equip SCM with decision-making tools to meet business objectives and drive business strategy.
Strategy Alignment
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 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.
Top Trends
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 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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Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
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.
Peer Benchmarking
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. IT staffing is stretched thin.
- By taking the IT Staffing Assessment Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend benchmarking, you will gain critical information to position your team to be seen as strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Goods Transportation & Logistics IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
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.
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.
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.
Strategically Phase in Technology to Bolster Supply Chain Management – Executive Brief
Date published
February 23, 2022
Author:
Read this Executive Brief to find out why you should build SCM system strategy first, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you in completing this project
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in Transportation and Supply Chain Logistics Is an Important Complement to the IT Strategy
Date published
May 18, 2021
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.
Cyber Physical Systems: The Low Hanging Fruit Between Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Understand the high potential of using artificial intelligence to defend critical infrastructure, smart grid technology, autonomous vehicles, and other cyber physical systems.
Take Autonomous Fleets Out of Your Blindspot – Preparing for Change With New Workflow
Date published
May 18, 2021
Author:
Autonomous commercial vehicles are coming. The industry does not have consensus about how soon, but given the number of major tech and automotive players investing in Level 4 (High Automation) and Level 5 (Full Automation) vehicles, it is just a matter of time. Organizations need to prepare for the changes in operating technology and systems.
Strategically Phase in Technology to Bolster Supply Chain Management
Date published
February 23, 2022
This research is for IT leaders looking for creating a comprehensive SCM strategy in order to make solution recommendations and augment the functionality of their current ERP or streamline and organize the disparate applications supporting supply chain management capabilities.
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