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Panera CIO John Meister on mastering customer experience

CIO

If we know, for example, that a guest always takes the onions off their order, then if they forget, we know to ask about it. John Meister is the senior vice president and CIO of Panera Bread, a chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants with more than 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

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Freight Forwarder: Key Workflows and Technology

Altexsoft

Freight forwarders are intermediaries between shippers (manufacturers, wholesalers, or retailers) and carriers ( sea , air, and land transportation providers) that organize and coordinate the movement of goods across international borders. Freight forwarders are experts that boost global trade and international transportation.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

Pricing tools evaluate a large number of internal (stock or inventory, KPIs, etc.) How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? Would you consider fixed costs, competitor prices, or both? Pricing automation.

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Terminal Operating Systems: Main Features, Integration, and Providers Overview

Altexsoft

The recent Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) overview of global supply chains explicitly displays how bad port congestion currently is – and how it keeps getting worse. The study states that one-fifth of the global container ship fleet is stuck at various major ports. The ports of Los Angeles and New York are not far behind. Main terminal challenges.

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Rail Fleet Management: How Technologies Help Handle Asset Tracking and Maintenance in Freight Rail Industry

Altexsoft

Railroads are an indispensable part of the supply chain when transporting both bulk shipments and intermodal containers. Compared to truck – its main competitor – train is cheaper (in the US it’s 4 cents vs 20 cents per ton-mile), more efficient (the record-breaking train was 682 cars and 4.5 Rail fleet management main components. ETA forecasting.

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How to Successfully Implement HR Analytics and People Analytics in a Company

Altexsoft

This situation isn’t extraordinary: managers and HR specialists of any organization have been there. The day may come when a seasoned professional tells you or your colleague about their plan to leave the company in a month. What’s clear is that employees and managers will have work to do. The problem can be viewed on a greater scale.

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Solving 9 Business Problems with Micro Frontends

Modus Create

In this article, we reveal some of the pain points that drove the migration to micro frontends for such organizations, based on our direct experience. . Applications or websites serviced by large or many teams can use micro frontends as a way to organically distribute areas of responsibility. What are Micro Frontends?