Business Process Management

Food business leaders understand implementing new integrated business software is a significant and technical challenge. But, many overlook things standing in the way of success, like resistance to change.

Yield analysis and management is a complicated topic that most wouldn’t consider a potential source of competitive advantage. But there is some compelling research that suggests that a robust, evidence-based approach to analyzing and optimizing yield can have an enormous impact on a company’s bottom line.

Today, most companies with teams of mobile field technicians are running some type of field service management software. They may have even extended that software to handheld devices used by their technicians in the field. In some cases, that service management software will automate part of the dispatcher’s role by using data on technicians and projects to generate a schedule for the day.

The current proliferation of cloud based service offerings and numerous delivery models that have evolved in a relatively short span of time are re-shaping the IT landscape. What this means for Business Process Management is that more and more vendors want to move their BPM software to the cloud as well.

If you asked the stakeholders in your business whether packaging is perceived as an unwanted cost or a value driving innovation, what would they say?

With a proliferation of cloud-based technologies already improving clinical trial performance, it is surprising that Excel spreadsheets are still a predominant force. Research dating back to the late 1990s and early 2000s documents that Excel was not designed to collect and analyze clinical trial data and it lacks project management capability, yet its extensive use persists.

Drug developers are focusing significant attention on risk-based monitoring (RBM) of clinical trials to improve data quality, trial efficiency and patient safety. Widely encouraged by regulatory agencies, RBM adoption is gradually building momentum as sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) concentrate on developing the right strategies, deploying the most effective technologies and internally managing change.

Mobile computing is becoming more prevalent in the enterprise today as consumers ranging from executives in the C-Suite to forklift operators in a warehouse use a mobile computing device to carry out their jobs. Mobility is the key to advancement, power, and efficiency for both consumers and companies.

All businesses aspire to provide the ultimate omnichannel customer experience. Aspiring is easy, but achieving is difficult, with fulfillment often being the most challenging area to master. Delivering the perfect order requires a delicate balance of inventory visibility, routing logic and strategies for dealing with exceptions. Explore the 3 critical components to delivering the perfect order.

Graniterock is one of California's premier construction materials producer, delivering hot mix asphalt, recycled asphalt, concrete and other materials to roads, highways, runways and bridges from San Francisco to Monterey. Safety is a core value at Graniterock, and the company requires employees to adhere to safe work practices at all times. The company wanted to update its slow, paper-based process for equipment and safety inspections to a more efficient solution based on mobile devices and cloud-connected services.

Once it has discovered a new drug, a drug manufacturer has a limited amount of time to reap the rewards of its invention before its patent expires and generic products enter the market.

Running a physician practice has never been easy, something that isn’t going to change any time soon. Today’s environment requires even more than clinical and business expertise — it demands adaptability. It involves building a long-term strategy to handle change.