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Supply Chain Optimization: Everything You Need To Know
Make Logistics Work for Everyone
Great logistics management is the very backbone of an efficiently run supply chain. However, many logistics operations face similar challenges: the sheer volume of tasks coordinating each process and step. From inventory management to order processing, the manual processes involved in these tasks can lead to delays and missed opportunities, causing a knock-on effect on the rest of your supply chain. Mitigate all these challenges and more with intelligent automation for logistics.
Automate Your Logistics, Start to Finish
Intelligent automation (IA) combines robotic process automation (RPA) with other cognitive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and business process management (BPM) to perform all the manual, repetitive and time-consuming processes in your logistics operations. From the very beginning, you can make smarter decisions, innovate faster and drive bigger growth.
How Can Automation Help the Movement of Goods?
The logistics conundrum
Remove manual tasks
Race ahead with automation
The logistics conundrum
Amidst complex supply chain dynamics, logistics must balance efficiency, cost and reliability. Customized services, like differentiated packing, are also important to cater to evolving needs. The management of logistics needs to be as streamlined as possible to compete in such a competitive landscape — in many cases, that means removing the manual, repetitive data entry tasks that are taking up more time than you think. And it starts with automation.
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What Are the Benefits of Automating Logistics?
Enhance freight management
Optimize routes, freight accounting and freight claim management with digital workers. This ensures you can maximize your resources throughout the entire logistics operations and transport goods more efficiently.
Optimize supply and production levels
Get real-time data to anticipate customer needs and automatically adjust stock and production levels to suit them. Easily scale up or down depending on demand and proactively minimize excess inventory, reduce stockouts and enhance overall responsiveness with help from warehouse automation.
Better customer service
Digital workers help improve communication with your customers and suppliers. With faster order processing and accurate inventory management, you can communicate these accurately to your customers and suppliers, fostering trust and satisfaction.
Improve tracking
Ramp up your production with demand, monitor inventory levels, order supplies and efficiently track supply chain deliveries. RPA in your supply chain provides you with real-time data and analytics so you can make the most informed decisions, identify trends and proactively address challenges.
Save costs
Logistics automation can optimize processes and drastically reduce errors, labor costs and waste — leading to cost savings for your operations. This cost-effectiveness arises from increased accuracy, efficiency and reduced rework requirements.
Easy to scale
Logistics automation systems can be easily scaled up or down to adapt to changes in business growth demands. This allows logistics operations to expand or contract without the need for significant adjustments and additional stress on workers.
How Do You Automate Logistics?
Inventory management
Order processing
Route optimization
Predictive maintenance
Order tracking and notifications
Inventory management
After identifying low stock levels, IA, RPA and automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) can automate the replenishment process to ensure you have the right inventory levels. By integrating with inventory management systems, digital workers can generate purchase orders, coordinate with suppliers and track delivery statuses — ensuring timely restocking to prevent stockouts or overstocks.
An automated solution can:
- Integrate seamlessly with inventory management systems, including AS/RS.
- Automatically generate purchase orders based on predefined thresholds.
- Coordinate with suppliers for efficient order processing and delivery.
- Provide real-time updates on the status of replenishment orders.