Challenges Today
- The supply chain business face more complex challenges and needs to respond quickly and accurately to uncertainty and variability in market demands – changing global demands, rising costs of labour, increasing customer expectations.
- To transform and adapt, supply chain vendors recognise the need to bring in innovative ways and technology to help tighten the value chain.
- A key universal challenge is to drive productivity and gain cost efficiency throughout the supply chain functions such as asset management, warehouse management, quality control, fleet management, inventory management and field sales & services.
- Bottlenecks can originate from various parts of a business, or at a specific stage in a supply chain network.
Mobility – as a way forward
- Mobility is about enabling real-time responsiveness and collaboration for greater flexibility and an increase in service quality throughout a business organization.
- Mobility solutions provide seamless communication (be it data or voice).
- Mobility solutions help to connect the management and employees who are constantly on the move across the supply chain with real time information so that decisions can be made quickly, products are manufactured in shorter lifecycles, distributed in the right quantities and sent to the right locations, at the right time for a competitive edge.
Transportation & Logistics
- Mobility solutions help gain visibility on movement of goods and services.
- Fleet management, route planning, direct-delivery applications, GPS, load scheduling, product traceability and dispatch services are examples of functions where adoption of durable wifi-enabled handheld computers will benefit.
- Voice and data services on the PDA of a logistics operations manager will allow him to monitor or make decisions quickly on dispatch / routing of delivery batches
- A truck driver can rely on his two-way radio for efficient location updates.
- Proof of delivery solutions for drivers to scan bar codes upon delivery, capture signatures and print delivery receipts at customer sites on mobile devices.
Manufacturing
- Workforce mobility helps to improve operational and cost efficiencies in manufacturing.
- Wireless technologies and mobile enterprise asset management applications help in physical asset maintenance on the shop floor, inventory management, process-oriented applications such as work-in-progress tracking as well as human machine interface (HMI).
- Mobility tools provides a clear focus on ROI and security for management
- Automation and real-time mobilization of data help reduce human errors and latency on the shop floor and warehouse.
Field Sales and Service
- Field workers are empowered to make decisions can carry out operational tasks in a timely and efficient manner through data mobility solutions.
- Order-to delivery process can be efficient by equipping sales force with mobile sales force automation applications for sending orders wirelessly for immediate confirmation.
- Mobility solution reduces on-site errors and increases visibility and real time intelligence to supply chain management.
- A technician to receive work orders electronically on-the-go, as well as getting access to service history, availability of parts and eliminating the need for paperwork, allowing him time to service more customers per day.
- Enterprise grade tools such as the ET1Enterprise Tablet can improve performance from the sales floor to the stock room -accessing information quickly, engaging customers and working smarter.
Embarking on mobility solutions with a right partner from the start
A right partner should be experts in the field, with in-depth knowledge and understanding on the demands and needs of a business current and into the future and capable to draw up a solution proposition that is both conducive and cost-efficient.
How Motorola Solutions enable supply chain businesses to drive productivity and gain cost efficiencies
- Motorola Solutions can help to address the gaps in supply chain management across industries by equipping customers with the right mobility tools
- Motorola’s advanced data capture tools, smart wireless infrastructure to wireless mobility tools will enable communication, real time responsiveness and collaboration
- These devices are durable, reliable, with security options and built to meet demanding needs in different environments.
- Backed by an ecosystem of partners across the globe, Motorola Solutions also offers management services and access to the required applications and integration for the right mobility solution.
