Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
- by: David Degrassi
- May 26, 2021
- The new cloud-based Device Tracker is one way to quickly locate any Zebra Android™ handheld mobile computer, tablet or wearable connected to your Wi-Fi network, even if the battery is dead or missing.
Three Tips – and One Tool – to Keep Your Company’s Mobile Devices from Disappearing
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- May 20, 2021
- Security is not exclusively maintained by printer settings.
Four Ways to Help Keep Your Enterprise Print Applications Secure
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- May 06, 2021
- Digital technologies can significantly improve the front-line worker experience (EX), but a unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy is key to supporting them at scale.
How to Boost Supply Chain Resilience Through Digital Transformation
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- May 04, 2021
- In this exclusive interview, we get the scoop on why so many smaller businesses are betting big on automation solutions right now and why Zebra is advising them to first adopt a more enterprise-like mobility strategy.
Meet One of Our Top Small- and Medium-Sized Business Technology Experts: Amanda Honig
- by: Dan Carroll
- May 03, 2021
- We want both the environment and your business to thrive for a very long time – just like you do.
Business Owners: Do You Want to Operate More Sustainably? Here’s One Way How.
- by: Kevin Tapscott
- April 29, 2021
- Intelligent workforce management and prescriptive analytics solutions can help retailers better balance available labor with operational demands.
Why Optimizing Labor Forecasting and Scheduling is the Key to Retail Success
- by: Eileen Looi
- April 12, 2021
- Though traditional employment opportunities still exist, more companies are rethinking how they recruit talent.
Three Ways the “Gig Economy” is Changing the Professional Workforce Model
- by: Suresh Menon
- March 30, 2021
- Companies are looking for a better way to navigate the increasing complexities of doing business. What they’re finding is that clear, high-impact directives delivered via mobile devices help them maximize human capital and mitigate losses.
Why “Small Actionable Data” Is the Next Big Data Trend
- by: Mark Wheeler
- March 26, 2021
- You must have real-time visibility into what’s happening across your entire operation if you want to orchestrate workflows for best-next-move guidance and decision making for your workforce.
Warehouse Maturity Model Phase 4: Turn to Technologies that Enable You to Better Respond to Market Demands
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- March 17, 2021
- Mobilizing workflows is especially critical for small-to-medium-sized businesses with limited resources that want to take advantage of big growth opportunities. These are the moves to make.
How to Digitalize Your Warehouse Without Complexity
- by: Mark Zucherman
- March 10, 2021
- New Zebra CardStudio 2.0 software allows you to start with a standard card design or customize your own to ensure digital IDs work for your specific application and use case.
The ID Card is Changing: 4 Things to Know Before Creating a Digital Version for Your Employees or Customers.
- by: Guy Yehiav
- February 26, 2021
- Research shows that retailers must do more to show front-line associates they are valued as much as customers, particularly with the labor pool shrinking, the pandemic lingering and fulfillment demands still rising.
Retail Workers Want to Feel Safe and Secure. These Two Technologies Help Do Just That.
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- February 18, 2021
- Shared devices can transform mobile workflows, improve front-line worker productivity and deliver greater cost efficiency across your entire technology architecture – assuming you can provide a smooth and secure handoff.
5 Things to Consider When Equipping Shift Workers with Shared Devices
- by: Jennifer Myers
- February 17, 2021
- Workforce scheduling, task management, and inventory management technology can go a long way in shortening fulfillment lead times.
Tech-Enabled Transformation: This is One of the Best Ways Distribution Centers Can Improve Efficiency to Meet Demand
- by: Richard Thompson
- February 15, 2021
- This is a prime opportunity for OEMs to show what they’re made of – and what they can make to ease the challenges of everyday tasks in a safety-first world.
How COVID-19 Has Changed the Face of Self-Service…in Healthcare, Manufacturing and Other Non-Retail Sectors
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- February 01, 2021
- According to well-respected robotics and automation executive, Jim Lawton, the answer is yes! Zebra has the ability to deliver “automation for all” businesses, regardless of size or industry.
Ask the Expert: Is Zebra Really One of the Top Robotics Companies in the World?
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- January 28, 2021
- Learn about the differences between these two computer form factors and whether one is a better fit for forklifts.
Ask the Expert: Should I Be Replacing My Fixed Vehicle Computers with Grab-and-Go Rugged Tablets?
- by: Kevin Tapscott
- January 27, 2021
- Fortunately, intelligent workforce management, task management, and prescriptive analytics software solutions provide real-time insights into opportunities to streamline and optimize the returns process. Find out how.
Shoppers Say Retailers Need to Improve the Returns Process or They May Not Return to Those Stores
- by: Brian Wallace
- January 25, 2021
- Modern branch networks require agile mobile communications to meet evolving customer demands while adopting to unprecedented challenges.
Banks Must Embrace the Opportunity to Transform Branch Communications. Here’s Why.
- by: Mark Thomson
- January 21, 2021
- These are the new table stakes for retail mobility.
3 Reasons Why Rugged Mobile Devices are the Only Type of Devices Retailers Should be Shopping for Right Now
- by: Mark Wheeler
- January 20, 2021
- Many agricultural, supply chain, and food safety experts say “yes.”
Could These Five Technologies Be the Key to Sustaining Higher Food Quality Standards?
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- January 12, 2021
- Hear firsthand how new mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities will help both small businesses and large enterprises better execute edge operations in 2021 and beyond.
Ask the (Google and Zebra) Experts: What are Some of the Most Innovative Technology Solutions You are Working on Today?
- by: Michelle Grodzki
- January 06, 2021
- Because of our continued diligence, the Zebra ET51/56 tablets received a Bronze rating in the EPEAT® system and several new sustainable offerings have hit the market.
It’s Our Corporate Social Responsibility to Maintain Focus on Environmental Initiatives, Even During a Pandemic
- by: Richard Thompson
- January 05, 2021
- There are four key growth opportunities for OEMs this year, each of which is designed to bring joy to consumers and prosperity to industries.
The Top OEM Solutions for Social Distancing (and Customer Satisfaction) in 2021
- by: Ritesh Gupta
- January 04, 2021
- The truth is that your business will only benefit from technology if your employees actually (know how to) use it.
Did You Know? There Is a Direct Correlation Between Your Training Investment and Your Return on Technology Investments
- by: Mark Wheeler
- December 23, 2020
- You must mobilize your field-based teams and those fulfilling orders within your four walls with the actionable intelligence needed to keep a long list of customers perfectly happy, even as they’re fighting through the realities of an imperfect world.
Three Ways That Technology Can Help Your Delivery Drivers Cover More Ground and Cater to More Customers Each Day
- by: Brian Wallace
- December 22, 2020
- Given the trends in branch traffic and the rise in digital banking, what technologies and strategies should banks consider to ensure they are getting the most from their branch network?
Envisioning the Role of Branches in a Digital Banking World
- by: Dan Baldwin
- December 15, 2020
- Equipped with a touchscreen and optional keypad, the new Android™ 10 Zebra WT6300 wearable computer is the perfect fit (literally and figuratively) for workers who need their hands free to pick, pack, sort, load and more.
The Industrial Wearable Computer Has Evolved to Be Everything You Need (and Everything Front-Line Workers Want) in a Hands-Free Solution. Check It Out...
- by: Mark Wheeler
- December 09, 2020
- Businesses of all sizes can benefit from sensor-based data capture solutions such as passive RFID and Bluetooth® Low Energy beacons as they start to build “systems of reality.”
Warehouse Maturity Model Phase Three: You Should Be Actively Seeking Out Sensing Technology
- by: Matt Hayes
- November 04, 2020
- Find out why you should be taking a closer look at this AI-based visual recognition technology if you want to be able to better sense, analyze and act on opportunities that can benefit your business.
Ask the Expert: What is Computer Vision? And Will It Really Give My Organization Better Visibility into Operations?
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- November 03, 2020
- The quality of the data you capture is only as good as the quality of the data source which, in manufacturing environments, is usually a barcoded label or RFID tag.
RF-SMART “Taking Inventory” Podcast Exclusive: What Does Printing Have to Do with Manufacturing Visibility and Traceability?
- by: Tom Bianculli
- October 29, 2020
- As the world gets more complicated and operational structures more complex, every effort must be made to keep things simple for your front-line workers.
Finding It Hard to Keep Workers (and Customers) Engaged? The Reflexis Team Has Cracked the Code.
- by: Lee Gamble
- October 27, 2020
- Whether you choose the cellular data + Wi-Fi enabled Zebra MC2700 or the Wi-Fi-only MC2200, you’ll have the workflow features and flexibility you need to meet the needs of practically any worker, any app, anywhere for years to come.
These New Keypad + Touchscreen Mobile Computers Can Be Anything Your Small to Mid-Sized Business Wants or Needs Them to Be
- by: Christine Weber
- October 14, 2020
- Learn how you can speed up operations and improve your KPIs simply by changing which labels you put on your products, packages and pallets.
Are Your Labels Helping or Hurting Your Business? Register Now for This Free Masterclass to Find Out
- by: S. David Silk
- October 07, 2020
- Spoiler alert: it is! But only if you can see, analyze and make changes to what’s happening inside those trailers and containers, in real time, during loading and unloading.
Is It Possible to Ship More Goods Using Fewer Trucks and Containers? And Without Causing More CO2 Emissions?
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- September 23, 2020
- Find out from two of Zebra’s experts how the circular economy model works and how it can economically benefit participants while boosting sustainability efforts.
Ask the Expert: What Is the Circular Economy? And Why Should I Get My Business in the “Loop”?
- by: Mark Wheeler
- September 22, 2020
- Every warehouse needs to empower workers to do more and move faster without making more mistakes, regardless of size. Making these small changes to your technology toolkit can make a big impact on individual and team capabilities when time is of the essence (and money is tight).
Warehouse Maturity Model Phase Two: Achieve Greater Team Productivity and Workflow Conformity
- by: Mark Wheeler
- July 21, 2020
- Following a strategic framework such as Zebra’s Warehouse Maturity Model can help accelerate modernization during a time when an efficient supply chain is so important. We’ll detail the five phases of progression in this new mini-series.
A Sign of the Times: Warehouses are Maturing Quickly, but Not All at the Same Pace (and Not Necessarily as Fast as They Could or Should)
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