LMS

Thanks to major advances, you can expect a lot more from modern labor management systems.

As global supply chains grow more complex, supply chain management (SCM) software developers are rising to the challenge. With innovations like AI and generative AI, they’re creating tools to streamline operations and address mounting logistics challenges.

Key findings from Modern Materials Handling’s 2024 software reader survey reveal tech adoption trends, current tech spending and the role that software plays in today’s materials handling environments.

Smart companies are doing everything they can to minimize turnover, improve employee engagement, and maximize the value of their human workforces.

The modern LMS has come a long way since replacing industrial engineers who used stopwatches and clipboards to conduct time-and-motion studies on the warehouse floor. Today, LMS helps companies get more out of their workforces while also supporting a more flexible work environment for employees.

The Annual Salary Survey by Logistics Management reveals that despite economic challenges, salaries in logistics remained stable with increased job satisfaction driven by a sense of accomplishment, relationships, location, and benefits, highlighting progressive company practices and technology to enhance employee engagement and retention.

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.