LMS

As more companies work to make their global supply chains more resilient, strong, and efficient, supply chain management software continue to play an important role in those efforts.

To better manage through the constrained labor market, logistics operations are courting more women and other diverse job candidates; ramping up their training programs; investing in automation; and ensuring that positions offer the work-life balance that many new recruits are seeking.

Companies of all sizes are leveraging labor management systems to detect workforce issues, improve asset utilization, and incentivize employees across a distributed network.

While the turbulent market has created headaches for shippers, carriers, and service providers, our study also focused on one of the most critical threats facing today’s logistics and supply chain leaders: people.

To find new solutions, it's important for workplaces to understand why traditional staffing solutions no longer work. That's why Bluecrew published its latest eBook, What Workplaces Need and Aren’t Getting From Hourly Staffing Providers.

With no end in sight to the labor shortage, companies are turning to labor management system technology for help optimizing their current labor resources.

Realistic strategies to address the chronic warehouse challenge.

A perfect storm of factors is making employee recruitment and retention particularly difficult in 2021. Here’s how warehouse and distribution centers can position themselves as “employers of choice” in this challenging environment.

The days of LMS being used as a narrow measuring stick are over. Today’s warehouse labor management software is highly mobile and provides metrics to change performance as work unfolds. The integration of LMS and WES is nascent and may vary by solution specifics, but it is a frontier to watch.

“Today we’re seeing LMS being integrated with enterprise systems through mobile user interfaces that create more advanced analytics"

We began 2020 with an unemployment rate of only 3.5%, and our nation’s logistics, warehouse and distribution center operations—as well as our carrier partners—were experiencing one of the tightest labor markets in a generation.

Here’s how companies are using their labor management systems (LMS) to improve workforce performance, increase logistics resilience, and prepare to engage employees far into the future.

Over the years, we’ve tried to steer clear of too many themed issues because we’re proud to offer our readers a wide breadth of industry information. The logistics and transportation market is so diverse, and shippers are looking to solve a multitude of challenges across a number of modes and services areas—never just one.

The current labor crisis has put a new spin on how logistics professionals are leveraging their labor management systems (LMS) to work more efficiently in today’s e-commerce, omni-channel environment.

This white paper demonstrates how LMS has proven to be an effective tool for retailers in their DCs.