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7 Leading Procurement Software Providers

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7 Leading Procurement Software Providers

Procurement in 2022 is no longer that rag-tag crew operating autonomously next to Accounting. No, procurement in many ways is its own strategy, directly impacting corporate identity, the company’s position in the market, as well as human resources. While the department is spearheaded by its people, procurement software platforms are shaping the future.

The procurement software market is vast, but seven providers stand out (in no particular order). 

IBM

We kick off the list with a known commodity – IBM. International Business Machines Corporation has been in business for a staggering 111 years. On the procurement side, IBM offers source-to-pay (S2P), invoice-to-pay, analytics as well as digital procurement. The most cited features of their digital procurement software are smart, end-to-end workflows, AI (artificial intelligence), and automation. 

Coupa Software

Coupa markets itself as an “all-in-one” solution to spend management. Everything from supplier management, strategic sourcing, supply chain planning, eProcurement, invoicing, and spend analysis, Coupa’s strengths are its single comprehensive platform, flexibility, and most important, Coupa is cloud-enabled. 

Icertis

A relatively young firm, Icertis is known for its efficiency. Their source-to-contract process helps customers and contractors close deals faster and reduce risk. Their ICI (Icertis Contract Intelligence) platform is an industry leader in improving contractual governance and increasing company bottom lines. 

Capgemini

Like IBM, Capgemini has been providing technology solutions for decades. A multinational information technology services and consulting firm, users cite compliance, transparency, and sustainable sourcing as the key value features of their procurement package. Seamless integration and great customer service are Capgemini calling cards. 

GEP Smart

An S2P platform for direct and indirect procurement, GEP Smart is trusted by leading brands such as Walgreens Boots Alliance. Leveraging cloud and AI technologies, GEP Smart clients can fully transform end-to-end procurement operations under one proverbial “software roof.” Features such as procure-to-pay (P2P), savings tracking, spend analysis, and contract/supplier management are GEP Smart’s strengths. 

JAGGAER

While not as seasoned as IBM or Capgemini, JAGGAER is not a young start-up either. They’ve quietly been leading the industry with AI and robotic process automation (RPA) and are known for features such as flexible spend management. In terms of next-generation analytics, you cannot go wrong with JAGGAER’s platform. Flexible, intelligent, and all on one platform. 

Oracle

No list of procurement software solutions would be complete without Oracle. One of the world’s preeminent technology companies, Oracle’s Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is an integrated source-to-settle suite. Cloud-enabled automation, strategic sourcing, spend compliance, and a highly useful contract lifecycle tracking feature improves client savings and lowers risks, all leading to greater productivity and profitability. 

Whether it’s deployment, scalability, cost, customization, or overall business value, any of these seven are a smart choice for your firm’s procurement needs. 

    

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Photonic Packaging Market to Grow at 5.7% CAGR, Expected to Reach US$ 452.3 Billion by 2032

According to Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider, the global photonic packaging market is estimated at US$ 452.3 billion in 2032 and is expected to expand at a healthy CAGR of 5.7% during the forecast years of 2022-2032. The market is poised to grow due to remarkable use case of photonics in several end-use digital applications.

With the rise of 2.5D and 3D package integration techniques and the emergence of the Internet of Everything, connectivity requirements are skyrocketing. The number of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is increasing quickly. Their data communication needs are increasing the required capacity of global communication networks. The transfer of data, logic, and applications to the cloud increases the need for latency reduction while allowing for increased network capacity by using photonics.

The broad range of methods and technical know-how required to create optical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and occasionally chemical connections between a PIC and the outside world are together referred to as photonic packaging. The integration of electronic chips, microchips, laser chips, and microfluidics on PICs is among the most well-known applications of photonic packaging.

The other aspects of the field also include the impedance matching of transmission lines from external connectors to PICs’ microscopic photonic components and high-speed (25 Gbps) routing. Additionally, it is done due to the effective thermal stabilization and thermal cooling required to keep the PIC within its operational limit.

Owing to technological developments in the photonics market, demand for its sustainable and robust packaging is expected to witness significant growth over the coming years.

Key Takeaways from Market Study

  • The global photonic packaging market is projected to grow 1.7X and reach US$ 452.3 billion by 2032.
  • The market witnessed 4.1% CAGR between 2017 and 2021.
  • Under packaging technology, optical photonic packaging dominates the market with US$ 110.9 billion valuation in 2022.
  • APAC dominated the market with 68.2% market share in 2021.
  • Together, the Americas and EMEA are likely to represent 32.2% market share in 2022.

Based on region, demand for photonic packaging is expected to increase at CAGRs of 5.1% and 6.6%, respectively, in APAC and the Americas.

“Advanced packaging technologies provide a route to improved scaling of photonics devices, especially for high-volume applications,” says a Fact.MR analyst.

Market Development

Technological advancements such as passive Fibre-to-PIC alignment, more accurate flip-chip vertical integration, improved thermal-stack design, and others have created a significant impact. Moreover, with ‘soft’ developments such as the adoption and publication of packaging standards and the consolidation and expansion of the component and material supply chain, there has been a dynamic shift in the overall photonic packaging landscape.

The need to create co-packaging solutions that integrate photonics with electronics, microfluidics, and MEMs will increase as photonics becomes more prevalent and finds more applications across vivid domains. The biggest prospects for this technology are in automotive, healthcare, and ICT end use. Thus, key companies are looking to diversify their offerings to gain an early mover advantage in this space.

Competitive Landscape

Prominent photonic packaging manufacturers are Aim Photonics, boschman, Fiberoptics Technology Inc, IBM, Inphotec, Juniper Networks, Keysight, MSRI Systems, PHIX, Technobis, Tyndall National Institute, and VLC Photonics.

The clear trend is for more compact photonic packaging designs with higher levels of integration (MEMs and electrical), effective and ideally passive thermal stabilization, and lower insertion loss. To solve this challenge, companies in photonic packaging are transforming towards developing scalable and standardized solutions from a legacy of individually customized prototypes. All in all, this will create higher relative profit margins in the optical packaging market.

  • In Sept 2020, MRSI Systems, in its new offering, introduced ‘MRSI-S-HVM’. It has features such as wafer-level packaging, co-packing photonic and electronic chips, and a flexible 0.5 micrometer die bonder for silicon photonics.
  • In January 2022, Phix, a photonics packaging business, and Nanoscribe announced a cooperation to offer the photonic packaging industry on-fiber printing services. Phix is using this new technological method to produce standard lensed fibre arrays using Nanoscribe’s nano-precision alignment capabilities with new high-performance 3D microlens printing technology (LFAs).

From Micro to Megachips

The world is home to lots of valuable stuff. But in 2022 the technology that powers most of this valuable stuff is where the real value lies. Microchips have been omnipresent in the news as of late. The most notable headline was the passage of the CHIPS Act, designed to stimulate US domestic microchip production. Currently, America imports many high-tech chips which have proven tricky when supply chains falter and shortages become more commonplace. Meanwhile, supply chain issues or not, the demand for chips is exploding. This in turn places pressure on engineers. 

We all want our devices faster and better. Yet, the chip industry is confronting challenges in getting more out of the same size chips. Currently, most chips measure the size of a quarter or a dime. To increase performance, engineers are jamming chips closer and closer together. The jamming effect is now prompting some to argue – instead of jamming microchips, why not create megachips? 

The megachip is not an impossibly large snack. Rather, megachips are the natural result of our demand as consumers for increased power. For example, the Sony Playstation or Microsoft Xbox have megachips the size of playing cards or even a dinner plate. This might sound untenable, but engineers argue this trend in bigger is following something known as Moore’s Law. Intel founder, Gordon Moore, noticed early on that every couple of years consumers began to expect more and more transistors (computing power once it’s broken down). Megachips are simply a response to this demand with Mac Studio computers boasting an inconceivable 114 billion transistors. 

In everyday devices, chips receive and transmit radio waves. The new packaging of megachips, however, is akin to putting all these chips receiving and transmitting radio waves under one, condensed roof. Think of a skyscraper, where the floors are chips, and they’re stacked upon each other. A microchip on its own renders a third of its area to the circuits that communicate to the rest of the operating device. When you stack chips the communication is close and nearly instantaneous. It’s faster to travel by elevator than walking between floors. 

Microchips were invented in the US. In fact, nearly 40% at one point were manufactured Stateside. Should the CHIPS Act reinvigorate domestic chip manufacturers, look for megachips to continue their expansion. Machine learning systems along with artificial intelligence are just two areas experts point to that will fuel demand for megachips moving forward. Cerebras is a start-up that has successfully created a chip the size of a silicon wafer with dozens of additional chips etched upon it. Others are experimenting in ways where smaller chips can be connected to larger megachips to power computers that are flexible.

Regulatory moves that either prohibit or incentivize production make and break industries. For now, domestic chipmakers are pleased and we’ll see where this megachip movement takes us.  

 

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TradeSun and Coriolis Technologies Partner for ESG Scoring of Trade Transactions

TradeSun, a technology company leveraging artificial intelligence for trade compliance and automation, and Coriolis Technologies, a leading trade data and analytics provider, have partnered to launch an integrated solution for banks to measure and verify environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance across trade transactions.

With regulators applying pressure on companies to disclose more detail on ESG performance, quantitative ways of analyzing the impact of trade finance activities are vital in achieving regional and international sustainability targets.

The combined solution enables TradeSun customers to leverage Coriolis’ ESG Tracker, an independent ratings-based platform developed with more than 50 financial institutions, to score, monitor, and verify their trade finance transactions and activities against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as defined by the United Nations.

Banks can also view ratings against domestic and international regulatory frameworks such as EU Taxonomy, Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation, and US Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Regulations. Additionally, financial institutions can search and
explore company ratings for governance purposes, including completing a personnel check.

Customers of TradeSun will be able to use Coriolis’ ESG Tracker in tandem with other integrated data partners, enabling further insights, flexibility, and aiding financial institutions in offering financial incentives to their clients upon meeting specific ESG criteria.

About TradeSun

TradeSun is an innovator and leader in trade digitalization. Our award-winning AI-powered platform for trade finance processing and compliance empowers customers to reduce risk, costs, and fuel growth by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies. The TradeSun Platform is a one-stop solution that automates document review,
significantly reducing processing times. It offers real-time compliance, covering trade-based money laundering, dual use goods, fair price, vessel tracking and sanctions.

About Coriolis Technologies

Coriolis Technologies is a leading trade data and analytics provider, offering real-time insight into global environmental, social and governance efforts. Coriolis Technologies aggregates global trade data from unique and secure sources. Proprietary technology analyzes the data, producing vital intelligence for banks and
businesses, scoring company activity against essential industry requirements, including Sustainable Development Goals and ESG regulation.

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Robots Paying the Bills For Freight Forwarders

Vector.ai (Vector), the productivity platform for freight forwarders, today announced the introduction of payment integrations; an industry-first, furthering freight forwarders’ ability to automate their operations and free up their human workforce.

These integrations bring together Vector’s AI workflows, financial payments, automated accrual reconciliation and sleek workflow interface to empower freight forwarders with an ability to pay the creditors much faster, reducing goods clearing times.

Vector customers will have a live view of which payments need to be made and will be able to simply press a button to clear them all from the Vector application, automating every step of the payment process. Users will be able to select which financing solution is right for their circumstances or set up custom rules from a variety of financial partners to automate much of the decision-making.

When it comes to paying back financiers, these accruals will be reconciled against the original invoice, maintaining a holistic view of payments at all times and providing a deeper visibility into a forwarder’s financial health as well as actionable insights applicable to future bookings.

Customers will have access to an advanced ecosystem of payment partners that can be configured at the creditor level, enabling the user to simply click the ‘pay’ button. Automatic reconciliation will transfer accruals to ‘posted’ and then ‘paid’ when the user presses the ‘pay’ button.

Vector’s platform will scan documents and automatically add any accruals for transaction fees into CargoWise TMS against the shipment with the correct creditor code. Users can keep track of their payments through Vector’s sleek and easy-to-use workflow interface that manages your finances via an inbox with all pending payments, payment statuses and tracking, and cash flow monitoring at a company or shipment level.

The 360 degree payment capabilities will work seamlessly with Vector’s existing suite of financial capabilities such as AP invoice sortation, instant payments and centralized finance communication.

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Tracking the ROI of Technology Integration in the Supply Chain

While many people believe technology lies behind supply chain operations, in reality, much of it involves human activity and processing transactions.

The challenge for logistics companies lies in how to differentiate themselves. To do this, companies must make business decisions revolving around the customer experience while integrating the right smart technologies within the supply chain.

Such technologies—which include transportation management systems (TMS), automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)—reduce inefficiencies and bottlenecks in an already fragmented supply chain.

How Technology Integration Boosts Supply Chain Efficiency

To meet modern customer demands, you’ll need to partner with vendors and integrate multiple technologies. As with any strategy, key steps when planning for technology integration in your organization involve research, onboarding and partnering with the
best vendors, and using the right tools.

Conduct Research

Assess what’s available to your business, market trends, and your competitors. Do your research from a TMS and best-in-class partnerships perspective so you can choose vendors who:

● Value collaboration
● Provide ease of use
● Offer more visibility
● Free up time for your employees and customers

Onboard and Partner with the Best Vendors

Identify and vet vendors based on your goals, needs, and budget. Pick various companies from different standpoints—tracking, LTL, TMS, and pricing—and partner with them.

Use software to automate the supply chain processes like demand and supply planning, bidding, order fulfillment, and more.

For instance, if a customer is on a TMS, you only need to log in to the TMS, find a load, enter a rate, and save the information. A robot can execute in four seconds what would normally take human employees about 45 or 50 seconds per load to complete.

Use the Right Tools

Select the right tools including—but not limited to—API connections with different pricing tools, middleware to set up and adjust the software, and robots to input prices and quote in portals.
Integrating these technologies helps you:

● Streamline business processes
● Reduce customer costs
● Improve employee tech resources for overall business efficiency

Instead of investing in all of the technologies in-house, onboard the best partners available to provide all a variety of solutions to your customers.

The Impact of Supply Chain Technology on the Customer Experience

Amazon changed customers’ expectations on timeliness and communication, while leaving them thinking they’ve got great customer service.

By integrating technologies, Amazon delivers operational excellence while fixing customer problems through re-delivery or visibility—not people.

Yet, problems still arise—especially when customers run into issues and need prompt resolutions. Amazon provides end-customers with a phone number (which is probably automated with robots giving back AI answers based on the customer’s response) and entry level call center employees to mediate issues.

The key to a great customer experience is to integrate smart technologies and have a team of dedicated account managers who understand their businesses.

You need a healthy mix of three key elements:

● Innovation
● Operational excellence
● Customer intimacy

Innovation allows companies to charge a premium for what you make, while operational excellence—upskilling staff and building an effective analytics infrastructure—helps you deliver exemplary customer service.

Customer intimacy, though, determines overall customer experience, giving your business a competitive edge. It involves collaborating with the customers while sharing information, pain points, and ideas about improving the supply chain integration
process.

It’s akin to getting a custom made suit—you understand the process and you’re willing to pay a premium for a fine outfit.

If your business operates at the intersection of operational excellence and customer intimacy, for instance, you can prioritize client relationships and give your team the latest technology to work quickly and efficiently.

Maximize Your ROI from Supply Chain Technology

Customers expect faster, flexible deliveries, with real-time visibility.
The key to a thriving, future-proof supply chain? Integrating and maximizing multiple technologies. This promises improved efficiency, lower costs, a better customer experience, and a more measurable bottom line.

About the Author

Kyle Ingraham is president of logistics at AFC Logistics, a leading freight and logistics company headquartered in Tampa.

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How to Win at Cybersecurity: Become a “Sneaker” CISO

To protect against cybercrime, every organization needs to build a culture of information security. To do that, infosec leaders need to become “sneaker CISOs.” There are three elements to security: Technology, people and processes. Sneaker CISOs are more
focused on people and process than on technology.

Too many security professionals today are so deep into the technology that they don’t pay enough attention to the people and processes. I used to be one of them. But technology can’t secure technology. That’s a lesson I learned the hard way when I
started working with public utilities.

Prior to that, I’d been working for government agencies where all we had to focus on was operations. The utility industry was for profit, and so it also had a business side, where systems were being digitized. At the time I started, the operational side was all
analog.

When the operational side started to be digitized, they committed the cardinal sin of connecting their operational technology to their business networks to make their regulatory reporting more efficient. Someone was able to make their way into the operational technology, which is typically not very sophisticated, and began to encrypt the systems that were running it and shut down a gas pipeline. It was quite terrifying.

If they had consulted a security engineer like me, we would have put some safeguards in place before connecting the systems. There’s little technological difference between the Windows 10 used in enterprise and the Windows 10 that the U.S. Air Force uses.

The only difference is people and process. That’s when I realized that in the digital world, everybody in the organization has a role in security.

As a security leader, you need to partner with the people closest to the box, educate them, and empower them to protect the box. That is why the first step in building a culture of information security is always to put your sneakers on, walk around, and get to know the people. Here’s who to meet, what to talk about, and how to build those partnerships:

Build relationships with the technology owners. Understand their roles and processes, and how they’re using the technology to support them. Respect their specialized expertise, and they will come to respect yours.

Find people that will champion the cause. When you see things that are being done in a safe and secure manner, find out who’s behind those things. Get to know their mindset and approach and start working closely with them.

Find your naysayers. In most organizations, there are people who have had bad experiences with information security professionals acting as the “no police” Understand their position, and what kind of conversations you need to have to be able to work together.

Meet everybody who comes into the organization. Hold regular group and individual security training as part of the onboarding process. This allows you to get an understanding of people’s exposure to security and compliance. For example, somebody who’s been exposed to HIPAA probably has the right mindset, even if they’re joining a new industry.

Get to know your infosec team members. Explain your position, your approach, and your successes. Often, they’ve come from an embattled culture of infosec vs. everybody else. If you can’t even fathom what a collaborative infosec culture looks like, it’s hard to help create one.

Become a consultant. Like me, many infosec professionals come out of government, where if people don’t follow policy, there are penalties. In the enterprise, you can no longer rely on that authoritarian stance toward policy. You have to call out the vulnerability, explain the risk, and offer potential solutions.
Then you say, “What are your thoughts?”

Stay in your swim lane. Many security professionals see a vulnerability and they say, “you’ve got to fix iT” If it doesn’t get fixed, they can’t let it go. They don’t realize they don’t get to make those decisions. There are always business risks outside of information systems that have to be weighed and balanced when deciding how to allocate budget and resources. Our job is to educate, inform and
remediate, if the organization wants us to. Stay in your lane and you’ll stay sane.

As a security professional, it’s very rewarding to fix a vulnerability or thwart an attack. It’s a big part of why we get into the profession in the first place. But we have to realize that we can’t secure anything within the organization on our own.

Real security comes through a groundswell of collaborative effort. It’s more rewarding when the lights come on and people start to understand that they have an active role in the security effort. Attending the annual security training, updating your passwords and
not clicking on suspicious emails is just the beginning.

Those are broad-based technical vulnerabilities. But everybody has a role that’s dependent on their role within the company. If you’re in AP, for example, you need to be up on the latest business email compromise scams, and have processes in place to spot and defeat them. If you’re working with external vendors, you need to be aware of your organization’s requirements for how they handle your information.

Our job is to break down the us/them barrier, and build those partnerships, because security is a “we” thing. Early in my career, I unwittingly created resistance to security by focusing on rules and technology. Once I changed my approach, most of the barriers
I had been encountering disappeared.

Bugs and vulnerabilities can be fixed, but information security never ends. People, processes, and technology are always changing. We get updates to technology on a monthly basis. Processes are always being evaluated for efficiency and maturity. If you educate and empower the people, the processes can change. The technology can
change, but the mindset stays. And that’s how you build a culture of cybersecurity.

About the Author

Tony Carothers is the Security Systems Engineer at Corpay, a FLEETCOR company. He has over thirty years of experience in information security, working in both the public and private sectors.

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Consistent Power is the Name of the Game

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is a backup system powered by batteries designed to continue charging electric devices in the event of a power outage or voltage drop. The global market for UPS spans the commercial, industrial, residential, medical, marine, and telecom sectors among others. The Insight Partners, a leading market research firm, released one of the most comprehensive summaries and forecasts on the UPS battery market to date – “UPS Battery Market Forecast to 2028.”  Rising demand for power back solutions is growing at a steady clip with the UPS battery market set to reach nearly $1.5 billion globally by 2028. 

Nearly every institution on the planet is IT-driven. Power outages are a disaster. Even at a household level, the prices of electrical goods (televisions, ACs, microwaves, refrigerators, etc) have dropped leading to more and more electrical devices in homes. Inadequate power is no longer just an inconvenience, which is why consumers at all levels are opting into UPS systems. 

While the UPS battery market in the developed world is predicted to rocket, growth in developing countries is still poised to be steady. It is difficult for an emerging economy to be an electricity-surplus nation. There are too many structural and economic barriers preventing it. UPS systems will be invaluable for places like India which is already putting in place a range of policies to implement UPS systems and ensure a backup solution is in place. The Indian National Solar Mission is government led and focused on novel, solar-based backup solutions. 

Overall, Asia-Pacific is showing signs of becoming the fastest-growing region for UPS. Despite more macro-level disputes, India and China have been embarking on the development of collaborative data centers. The Middle East and Africa as well as Europe are not far behind primarily due to an increase in cloud services and automation in the processing and manufacturing industries. Latin America will grow, but low investments in cloud-based computing and data centers are holding it back. 

Just two years ago the UPS battery market was valued at $695.6 million. With a 2028 projection of $1.5 billion ($1.47 to be exact), that’s a compound annual growth projection of an impressive 10.6%. The private sector will drive much of this, but government initiatives such as Smart City projects and REACH 2025 have been highlighted as forward-thinking enterprises. Security hardware like closed-circuit television cameras and storage will absolutely require UPS. This naturally extends to residential applications as homeowners will want to protect their most valuable asset (family included) from untimely power outages.

COVID-19 has stalled the growth of the global battery market. Barring new harmful strains that result in the same havoc that wrecked markets in 2020 and 2021, the path to 2028 for UPS looks bright … and hopefully always “on.” 

 

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Anders are 70 Years Young And what a journey it has been

Just as we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking our Queen’s 70 years on the throne, we’d like to also honor our 70th year milestone.

In the 1950’s, things were very different than they are now, the average house price was £1,800.00 (can you imagine)?

The technology landscape was emerging with the instant camera being demonstrated and the commercial microwave being produced.  Many say that life was simpler in these days, and perhaps it was, but the intention of innovation through the ages has always been that advancements mean convenience, and in today’s world, the purpose of progress, is to simplify everything, whilst ensuring decisions are made strategically by being data driven.  Take that instant camera and now look at your mobile phone.  Technology has converged.  In the power of your palm is not only the ability to get snappy happy, but to utilize maps, banking, social media, etc.  How much does that simplify your life?

And this is true whether you’re in a business to consumer (B2C) or business to business (B2B) environment.  In fact, modern life often intertwines both. Look around yourself right now. Whilst we may work from home, digital technology enables us to have a face-to-face meeting with people all over the world, removing the barrier of time and distance. Our mobile devices allow us to do business, manage money, check medical health, and order our groceries via intelligent apps Our homes have smart meters to track energy usage and change habits, our coffee machines have smart functions to remember our favorite drink.

As we look at Anders and our own transformation though time, from display delivery, a component part of our customers complete build, to being a strategic end-to-end product realization partner, we’d like to celebrate our success through our 70-year story.

Why customers come to Anders

Our customers tell us that they have partnered with and will continue to partner with Anders due to the power of our network. Our operational and supply chain teams don’t look for transactional customers, they look to build networks.  Our partnership networks benefit our customers; from design, to development, to manufacturing and beyond.  Keeping your supply chain simple, reducing your touch points, and therefore risk, we can be with our customers through their entire journey from point A to point Z and then back again for their next generation and their next generation, building long-term relationships, that have stood the test of time. 70 years to be exact.

The Need for Data

The well-known marketing mantra of ‘if you build it, they will come’, whilst this sounds wonderful, it’s now no longer right.  The pendulum has swung.  The power now sits with the person.  The individual who can join many others to vote on the success of your creation. Before you buy something, you look for a review. Before you book your holiday, you look for a review. Your experience, whether good or bad can now be shared and reshared, put into content, or taken out of context.  Mention in your home that you’d like a new alarm system, and on your social media, up pops adverts for solution providers, five minutes of research enables you to buy the one that has the highest score on Trust Pilot. That’s the new power of marketing.

Data, data, data. Let’s put ourselves into the shoes of that alarm provider.  Once upon a time they’d have been quite simply that: an alarm provider.  Now however, they benefit from a touch panel display that is designed to be placed within any environment, any temperature, any lighting condition, vandal proof, solar panel connection (conserving energy is a differentiator.) It needs to be aesthetically pleasing to fit many situations and be discreet.

But this electronics product company isn’t simply a buy our product, transactional company.  Aside from core competence of designing and building alarm systems, they have the ability to gather data that not only helps them to continuously improve their alarm system from one generation to another as they can monitor end-user performance, but they can also, via their embedded display system understand their end-user’s behavior in a greater way. Is there a geographical hotspot for alarms? Is there a rise in commercial or domestic use? Is there a size of business variation? Is there a type of business difference? Linking to their insurance provider even expands this reach of data or how behavior is researched and influenced.

The same approach can be used across almost any industry from smart utility metering where data collected can help us reduce utility bills and improve services, to healthcare which can provide personalized drug treatment and improve drug delivery to patients of the future.

Gathering data is intelligence to drive strategic decision making, and that’s the gold dust.

So, life may have seemed simpler in the 50’s however, today, our connection to intelligence, for insight will help us to shape tomorrow’s world.

This is why at Anders, and through our partnership ecosystem, we can offer our customers a vertically integrated and seamless journey from design concept to successful product launch and beyond.  We fulfil their primary requirements to bring their product to life, but it’s the role we play throughout the entire PLC that adds true value and differentiates Anders.

The display and embedded technology experts within Anders have reimagined the product conceptualization to realization experience to provide one that is both additive and addictive for our customers. One that not only enhance their business, portfolio, and strategic decision making via the learnings their technology is capable of, but they will also understand their own operations more effectively e.g., usage, downtime, demographics etc, all of which are essential for the health and wellbeing of their organization.  The result is a more sustainable company, with less waste at a time that we are all more climate and cost conscious.

So, quite simply put, partner with Anders to enhance your business through innovation, imagination, intelligence, to deliver a more insightful and intuitive end-user interface.

About Anders

Anders Electronics. is the market leader for solutions in display, embedded, and LED technology.

From design to development through to the supply of world class products for global B2B customers, they are the engineering and industry specialists, dedicated to making electronic touchscreen technology engaging and enjoyable.

Over 30 years ago, Anders started designing, developing, and delivering customized display solutions for the non-consumer industry and they haven’t stopped innovating since! Anders features a history of reliability and innovation, and lives to solve display engineering challenges.

Anders harnesses their expertise in display, embedded computing and touch control technology to help differentiate their customers’ products through exceptional design and engineering.

With an unrivalled depth of service, scope of engineering skill, scale of capabilities, global manufacturing reach, and speed of operations, the Anders portfolio is the most comprehensive in the industry.

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Circle Logistics Increases Shipper Visibility, Live-Tracking 84% of Its Loads through Partnership with Transport Pro

Leading logistics company Circle uses Transport Pro’s web-based TMS to streamline operations for shippers and carriers

Circle Logistics (Circle), a leading asset-based full-service logistics company, announced it live-tracked 84% of its loads for the last two months, which is an added shipper visibility feature resulting from software integration with Transport Pro, a leading transportation management company.

Correlating with Circle’s more than 300% growth over the past two years, the company’s increase in the ability to provide visibility through live tracking is rapidly increasing, more than doubling competitors typically tracking 30-40% of their loads.

Circle and Transport Pro integration means customers can live-track their loads from Circle’s portal or via a text or email sent from Circle. This streamlined process is quick and easy for customers, as well as employees, who can now reduce the number of follow-up phone calls regarding the status of deliveries.

About Circle Logistics

Founded in Fort Wayne, Ind. in 2011, Circle Logistics is one of the fastest-growing transportation companies in the nation, servicing over $700 million in freight spend. As a Top 50 Freight Brokerage Firm, Circle combines the dedication of a privately owned asset-based 3PL with the coverage of a public large-scale provider to create a superior modern freight experience. Circle is committed to delivering on three core promises to our customers: No Fail Service, Personalized Communication and Innovative Solutions and provides coverage across all modes of transportation in the continental United States and Mexico, including Dry Van, Flatbed, Reefer, LTL, Expedite, Oversize and Air. For more information, visit www.circledelivers.com.

About Transport Pro

Transport Pro is a United States owned and operated transportation management company headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. Our web-based solution streamlines operations for trucking companies, brokers and third-party logistics. Transport Pro’s mission is to provide a user-friendly platform that improves both internal and external workflows, while reducing human error and promoting business growth. From load management to a full financial package, the TMS is easily implemented across multiple locations and provides the visibility that both customers and internal networks demand. For more information, visit www.transportpro.net.