Digital Transformation
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What is Digital Transformation?
Digital transformation for warehouse is the holistic adoption of change across people, processes, and technology in the way in which an organization operates, supports its customers, and creates new business opportunities
Digital Transformation is imperative for all businesses, from the small local shop to global enterprises. In order to remain competitive and relevant as the business world becomes increasingly virtual and digital it is time to rethink old operating models, processes and technology to better serve all stakeholders.
At DCT Solutions Group, we help our customers integrate digital technology into areas of business focused on supply chain execution. Our solutions help drive fundamental changes to how businesses operate and how they deliver value.
While technology is a key element in digital transformation, it’s only part of the process. We also assist our clients in improving processes and changing culture to focus on enabling innovation and continual improvement resulting in increases in efficiency, employee experience, customer collaboration and business growth.
Modern Technologies
Integrated Systems
Actionable Data
Continuous Improvement
Modernization can mean much more than simply upgrading hardware and software.
Digital modernization can help you ramp up your business for long-term success. Many of todays legacy technologies are not sufficient for future success. Around two-thirds (65%) of supply chain companies are utilizing systems and approaches that have been in existence for 10 years or more. While once providing a quick ROI by reducing costs and increasing accuracy, they are not easily adaptable or scalable to meet the emerging requirements of a digital world. Modern technologies can provide the data, reliability and flexibility not only to operate but innovate your business.
Modernization, focuses on adopting new and improving existing technology beyond reducing costs via functional improvements, it bets heavily on delivering better user experience, supporting automation and enabling collaboration. Modernization by itself can and does bring about significant productivity boost and profit increase.
Why Modernize?
Faster performance of legacy software
Improved up-time rates
Reduced training costs and higher user adoption rate
Collection of additional data for future use
Gain competitive advantage on the market
Increased worker efficiency
DCT can help your company modernize, adopt and integrate new technologies including:
- Mobile computers and printers
- Barcode and RFID data collection
- Voice and Wearable Technology
- IOT and sensing technology
- Robotics
- Cloud platforms
- Wireless Voice and Data
- Customer facing collaboration tools.
- Migration of Legacy Tel Net screens to modern apps.
- New mobile and web apps to support line of business processes
If your business has technologies that have needed updates for a long time but would require an effort beyond your organizations ability to manage at this time, modernization can deliver faster performance of legacy software, improved up-time rates, decreased on-boarding time and expense and increased efficiency.
- Modernization can also facilitate the first steps in digitalizing processes by collecting additional data for future use.
- Zooming out of internal processes, modernization can help you gain a competitive advantage on the market as well.
- Updated systems provide better user experience as well as increased adoption that drives efficiency and satisfaction for line of business workers.
Full Stack Mobile
DCT can help ensure the success of your company’s Modernization journey with our proven “Full Stack” Methodology. Our team has years of experience to work side by side through the full technology life-cycle.
PLANNING
With over 35 years of experience DCT will develop a comprehensive plan to answer questions, address concerns and assure you know what to expect and when to expect it.
SELECTION
Our knowledge of a wide variety of mobile technologies and the companies that provide them allow us to insure that you will select the right products and guarantee you the lowest price
EXECUTION
With our dedicated team and proven methodology we can manage the physical installation of equipment, asset tagging and documentation, DOA equipment and RMAs to insure the fastest return on investment on your equipment.
INTEGRATION
DCT Mobile can develop custom documentation and on-line training materials that will inspire user confidence and fast adoption.
SUPPORT
We offer our customers a wide range of repair and maintenance series to keep your business running at peak efficiency and our expert team of support staff assures you get the help you need.
FEEDBACK
An effective life cycle management program can help your organization extend the useful life of legacy equipment by repurposing in other areas such as, reducing TCO, reducing security risks and reducing environmental impact.
Digitization is the transition from analog information (manual forms, inventory cards, paper reports) into digital (computerized) data. Digitalization is the process of effectively using the digitized information to transform your business by using data to better engage with associates and customers, make better business decisions, drive new revenue streams and increase profit.
Digitalization requires data. Lots and lots of data. This data typically comes from a variety of sources and is difficult to collect, integrate and evaluate.
Our intuitive digital solutions provide data driven, on-demand remote visibility of your operations using mobile computing and IOT to collect data, cloud computing to secure and store, open API technology to integrate and advanced analytics and operational insights to evaluate.
DCT can help your business leverage data throughout the entire supply chain eco-system. We can help you bring data together from disparate sources including:
Business Execution Systems
- Ecommerce
- Transportation Management
- Warehouse Management
- Proof of Delivery
- Field Service Management
- Safety and Inspections
- Remote Equipment Monitoring
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In addition, we can help leverage the power of mobile, IOT and wireless to develop processes to collect many operational details of your organization for in-depth analysis including:
Operational Data
- Surveys
- Invoices
- Signatures
- Photos
- Voice Notes
- Text and Voice Messages
- Customer Notes
- GPS information
- Time/Date/Duration
- Machine Information
- ELD Data
Since the widespread adoption of business computers, users have struggled to make the most effective use possible of the newly available data. As the amount of data has grown new tools have continuously been developed to help our brains quickly and accurately make sense. Spread sheets, graphing tools and BI interfaces are in abundance and range from simple to highly sophisticated. Still most businesses continue to struggle to realize the maximize the value of their data.
DCT can help your business gather, sort and present information from different systems in a simple, understandable and actionable format.
Gather your data
At DCT, we have extensive experience integrating data between different systems going back over 20 years. Utilizing off the shelf and propriety tools we can assemble data securely into a cloud platform to be available for access across your organization. We can also utilize real time connections to create live views of current activities in real time.
Understand Your Data
In order for data to have practical value it must be:
Understandable
Available
Timely
Actionable
Relevant
DCT can help make useful data available to your users wherever they are in a form that is easy to use.
In addition to multi-source dash board applications, we can assist in creating event driven notifications delivered via mobile app, email, text message and more. Perhaps most importantly, we can help get the right information to the right person eliminating overwhelming your team with unnecessary distractions.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTACT DCT?
816.472.7226
info@dctkc.com