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…here. As Mike Noll of St. Onge explains, ROI continues to be important in equipment buying decisions, but its relative importance overall has shifted. “Go back just a couple of years, and ROI was 90% of the discussion,” he says. “But now it only accounts for 20% with other benefits ranging from operational efficiencies and flexibility being the other 80%.”…
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…Howard Turner, project director at St. Onge Company, takes a closer look at how businesses of all sizes can use TMS solutions to drive efficiency and flexibility while proactively positioning themselves for success. Turner starts with a quick overview of TMS and its capabilities, noting that the software manages inbound, internal, and outbound shipments. Transportation networks are extremely complex with…
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…managing director at consulting firm St. Onge, who notes that the Top 20 companies remained largely in the same order and many showed gains. Following two years of double-digit growth, the list’s combined revenues grew 7.3% in 2019 to more than $23 billion. Norm Saenz, managing director at consulting firm St. Onge: “This is what we were seeing over the…
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…the design and consulting firm St. Onge. “If you’d asked me that question in February, I would’ve given you a very different answer than now,” Jensen says. “We don’t know whether we’ll still be experience labor challenges and high turnover with a high unemployment rate.” Still, we know what too many workers are saying now, as they grab at their…
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…managing director at consulting firm St. Onge, who notes that the Top 20 companies remained largely in the same order and many showed gains. Following two years of double-digit growth, the list’s combined revenues grew 7.3% in 2019 to more than $23 billion. “This is what we were seeing over the last year, as many companies looked to automation to…
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…Norm Saenz, managing director with St. Onge, a supply chain engineering and consulting company that works in partnership with Logistics Management on the study results, believes that the survey shows many positives, but also reflects the reality that many organizations need to layer in some traditional equipment, systems and processes before rushing into technologies like mobile robots, drones or artificial…
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…strategy and logistics consulting firm St. Onge Co., says, at least conceptually, comprehensive location data is not at all new. “Now we have the technology,” Hill says. “I love the idea of being able to identify something’s location down to the centimeter. That’s wonderful. But, people assume you can just do it. ‘Why not put a tag on everything, then…
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…and executive vice president of St. Onge Co. “The question is: How do you deal with it? Variability will not go away, and, yet, you need to figure out how to balance equipment investment and staffing.” “The best solution is to cover peaks with investment not people,” says Jensen. But he’s not talking about installing two more high-speed sorters. The…
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…and executive vice president at St. Onge Co., says he’s also seeing healthy levels of interest in warehouse automation right now, with the tight labor market as a key driver. “If you’re in a distribution operation that is level-loaded and doesn’t have large seasonal, inter-week, inter-month or inter-quarter peaks, automation can be very effective in justifying itself through labor reduction,”…
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…Derewecki, a senior consultant with St. Onge Company, a supply chain engineering and consulting firm that assists our research team in this annual study. “Overall, there’s continued optimism projected in 2019.” Both Derewecki and Norm Saenz, a managing director with St. Onge, see findings such as increased interest in 3PLs as mirroring what they see in their client base—companies under…
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…the supply chain consulting firm St. Onge Co., says he’s seeing fewer paper- and clipboard-based tracking systems and says that even radio frequency (RF) barcode scanning is being replaced by more advanced systems. And while most shippers rely on the latter—or, are still stuck in their paper-based ways—Saenz does see a time in the future when barcodes become “old technology”…
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…laurels. Still a director at St. Onge, he recently attended a conference on automatic identification that brought together more than 400 experts to Google’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. When he looks at the new mechanical and technology solutions coming to market, he sees the seeds planted back in the 1970s and 1980s now bearing fruit. “We’ve finally come to where…
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…director at supply chain consultancy St. Onge Company, says that the analysts at his firm are seeing a “surprising” number of new, dock-centric robotics developments, including several new prototypes that have surfaced over the last few years. “At first, we saw a few installations here and there,” he says, “but now we’re seeing some definite development taking place, with robots…
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…director at supply chain consultancy St. Onge Co. “Even the larger shippers are trying to get better in areas like automation, robotics, virtual reality, voice and radio frequency identification, in an effort to get to the ‘next level’ with their warehousing.” The good news is that software and equipment vendors aren’t resting on their laurels, nor are they standing by…
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…Norm Saenz, managing director with St. Onge Company, a supply chain engineering and consulting firm. “While there are clear indications for growth in the survey, I believe companies are being tactical about investments. They want investments that will bring them quick improvements, while some are thinking about outsourcing.” Indeed, when it comes to new purchases, areas with rising interest not…
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