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Using optimal cartons to ship orders is a no-brainer and will keep costs down. The question is whether this is actually happening in your operation and if not, what can be done about it.
By Dick Zijlstra, Director of Value Realization and Senior Account Manager at ORTEC
Retailers have been shifting towards a consumer-driven market, which has brought dynamic growth to e-commerce and an ongoing effort to increase revenues while maintaining or even reducing logistics costs. One of the biggest retailers in Europe and second largest in Romania, Carrefour, decided to use the ORTEC Routing and Dispatch software to optimize the trips for its e-commerce platform, one of the first in the country.
Until recently, pilots and experiments would have put organizations solidly ahead of the curve. As a result, companies around the world have spent trillions on data, technology, data science talent and experiments. Yet, a substantial number of companies have seen their investments reach a plateau. One of the culprits is the slow speed with which established firms make the shift to a data-driven culture. Not surprising, since culture is an abstract concept that is difficult to direct or control. Here’s what we learned from experience about the elements of a data-driven culture, based on the most tried and tested cultural dimensions, that creates fertile ground for lasting impact.
This article is part of the Five Components of a Holistic Digital Strategy series. Culture as one of the five components.
An article powered by Rianne Langenberg, Managing Consultant and Hans Spaan, Director.
Patrick Hennen is our new Chief Technology & Innovation Officer (CTO) and member of the Executive Team. In this role, he is responsible for boosting technology and innovation throughout the global ORTEC organization, in close collaboration with our key customers and technology partners.
Personalization is currently one of the major trends in the travel industry. Numerous organizations rely on this trend to build customer loyalty and stand out from the crowd. For travelers, personalization makes it easier and faster to find the vacation of their dreams. While the huge supply and large volume of information in the travel world has left customers unable to see the forest for the trees, personalization enables them to refine their search based on their own individual preferences. Yet how can organizations identify these preferences and respond accordingly? Arnoud Kuiper, Travel Consultant at ORTEC, explains how data and smart technologies can offer the solution.
Wij zijn beiden actief in de zorgsector en daar komen wij elkaar regelmatig tegen. ORTEC ziet in deze sector veel beweging en is zich hierdoor ook snel aan het ontwikkelen. Graag maken wij jullie ook deelgenoot van onze ontwikkelingen. De reden hiervoor is het feit dat we het prettig vinden als onze partners de ORTEC propositie kennen en hier zelf op in kunnen spelen. Zo kunnen wij elkaar waar mogelijk versterken.
Zodoende organiseert ORTEC Healthcare een kennissessie waar wij jou graag voor uitnodigen. Tijdens deze kennissessie willen wij in gesprek gaan over de verschillende ontwikkelingen in de zorg, zoals capaciteitsmanagement, omgang met flexibele inzet, zelfroosteren en plan-algoritmes.
Dear puzzler,
We hope you had fun in cracking our puzzles! If you want to check your answers, or perhaps you were not able to solve all our puzzles, you can find the answers on this page.
If you really liked solving these puzzles and would like to know what kind of puzzles you could solve every day at ORTEC, please check out our careers website. Don’t forget to follow us on LinkedIn as well to see more about how we optimize (y)our world.
ORTEC Recruitment team
Thank you for your interest in ORTEC’s Outside-In. The event has been received with enthusiasm, however the final months of the year proved too busy for our invitees. We have therefore decided to postpone the event until April 9, 2020. You’ll receive an updated invitation for the event in due time!
To stay ahead of competition, companies must think creatively about how to incorporate AI into their strategy. The series on Data and AI in the Boardroom, consisting of four articles, looks at areas where AI in the boardroom can be deployed, some of the issues that may arise and what we should expect to see. For a business to adopt AI with any degree of success, it must be embedded in its strategy. As well as establishing ownership of such a strategy at board level, companies will also need to consider how to deal with any ethical challenges that technology brings.
With volatile demand and prices, dwindling reserves and rising costs, (downstream) energy companies are eager to gain operational insights and optimize their supply chain. To complicate matters, regulations are getting more stringent. Given this market landscape, companies in the energy industry need to embrace new approaches to supply chain management and start leveraging data to provide cutting-edge services if they want to stay competitive.
This article focuses on oil and gas downstream processes within the energy industry.