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Goods Transportation & Logistics
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Goods Transportation and Logistics - Critical Projects
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry Trends
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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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Priorities for Adopting an Exponential IT Mindset in the Transportation & Logistics Industry
- Predict shifts in market priorities and technology.
- Enable technology spend proactively tied to customer satisfaction and employee wellbeing.
- Modernize through Exponential IT to combat disruption and accelerate adoption of game-changing technologies.
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
How CIOs Can Get Manufacturing Demand Planning Right
Improving demand planning has an impact on both the top-line and bottom-line.
Strategy Alignment
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
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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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Generative AI Use Case Library for the Goods Transportation Industry
Info-Tech’s use case library provides practical guidance to help Goods Transportation accelerate value-driven Gen AI use case adoption.
Top Trends
Transportation Technology Trends 2022 Report
Use this trends report to identify three technology trends in the transportation industry and align your technology initiatives to them.Top Trends
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.
Top Trends
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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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
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
Real-Time Transportation Visibility (Logistic Visibility Systems)
- Predict problems and identify opportunities to streamline processes.
- Enable higher levels of customer satisfaction.
- See how processes can be streamlined to meet OTIF targets.
Core Industry Technologies
Using Supply Chain Control Tower for Competitive Differentiation
A supply chain control tower allows organizations to:
- Predict problems across the supply chain.
- Enable real-time information and decision-making capabilities.
- See where goods are and any bottlenecks that may be occurring.
Core Industry Technologies
Enable the Next-Generation Goods Transportation Management System
- Identify the kinds of tools and activities that are most important to customers right now.
- Prioritize tools and technology that will meet your needs based on critical features and functions that can be leveraged to increase efficiency and profitability, lower cost, and enhance collaboration.
- Align the team: After establishing what technologies are needed for your TMS solution, form the team that will be needed for the selection and implementation.
Core Industry Technologies
Practical Use Cases for AI in Fleet Management
- Predict any potential problems or roadblocks.
- Enable higher levels of collaboration and delivery execution.
- See greater efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Core Industry Technologies
Deliver Operational Efficiency Through Predictive Maintenance
- Predict: problems based on tolerance.
- Enable: proactive actions (predictive instead of reactive maintenance).
- See: prevention of downtime, increased productivity, and higher customer satisfaction.
Core Industry Technologies
Adopt Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency
- Distinguish blockchain from bitcoin by introducing a business-centric definition of blockchain around its unique and competitive technological features.
- Discover successful blockchain use cases in different industries; business leaders can leverage tangible real-life examples to interpret the impact of blockchain on their own industry.
- By analyzing the value chain of their business, CIOs can understand stakeholder pain points and craft a blockchain use case around them.
Core Industry Technologies
Advanced Inventory Management
Effective, technology-led inventory management can help address supply chain challenges. This research presents a playbook to deploy advanced technology and improve your inventory management maturity. Critical components of this playbook include an overview of inventory management systems and their advanced capabilities, an introduction to KPIs for effective performance management, and a technology maturity map to show you what good inventory management looks like. This will ultimately arm you with the ability to plan better, procure more efficiently, and fulfill in an optimized manner across more channels, customer types, and geographies.
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.
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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.