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Workforce scheduling is crucial in the transportation and retail logistics industries, where efficiency and customer service are paramount to remaining competitive. These industries, however, are plagued by labor shortages. These staffing pressures have worsened since the pandemic. At the same time, the pandemic has given the e-commerce boom further momentum. Truck drivers are in high demand and hard to come by. Warehouses are also struggling with staffing shortages. How can you improve warehouse employee scheduling and driver scheduling to achieve productivity in this context? How can you attract skilled workers? The key to productive workforce scheduling in transportation and retail logistics lies in a comprehensive workforce management solution.
By Merlijn Gootjes
'I believe in the centaur model: a combination of data-driven and intuitive innovation’
Roland van der Vorst has been Head of Innovation at Rabobank Wholesale Rural for two and a half years, putting him in charge of all international business and corporate business in the Netherlands. Van der Vorst is not a stereotypical banker. He prefers operating at the interface of creativity and strategy, a trait that serves him well in his current position. "I have set myself the goal of capitalizing new revenue models and harnessing our current relationships and strengths to innovate. I strive to create things that will benefit us and others alike, playing a positive-sum game rather than a zero-sum one.”
Interview with Roland van der Vorst, head of innovation at Rabobank
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands: A new release of ORTEC Inventory Routing is now available. With this new release, you can get drastically improved results by combining order forecasting, order generation and route optimization with real-time execution and dispatch.
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Automotive manufacturers have idled production, beverage producers are faced with glass bottle shortages, and demand for paper has been vastly outstripping supply. All this is compounded by acute staff shortages across a variety of industries. Is there any way of avoiding these types of problems in the future? “There’s no reason to stop using global supply chains altogether, unless you’re considering environmental factors. But we must do a better job in identifying bottlenecks and make the system less prone to vulnerabilities, so as to ensure that potential disruptions have a less detrimental impact.”
Interview with Gerrit Timmer, co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) at ORTEC