Best Practices
- by: Your Edge Contributor
- May 31, 2023
- Learn how wearable devices that audibly or visually tell workers where to go and what to do when they get there can help them reach full productivity faster.

How Wearable Technology is Speeding Up Front-Line Worker Training in Warehouses, Distribution Centers, Retail Stores and More
- by: Sivakumar Lakshmanan
- May 24, 2023
- For years, Walgreens enticed customers with an ad highlighting “what’s on sale this week.” Now, it can proactively tailor the whole retail experience around customers’ real-time wants and needs. Learn how.

A Closer Look at Walgreens’ AI-Powered Demand Planning Transformation
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- May 18, 2023
- It could be a win-win to let employees use personal devices on the clock. However, more businesses are starting to backtrack on BYOD. Why? Hear both sides of the story.

Ask the Expert: Do the Benefits of a BYOD Workforce Mobility Strategy Outweigh the Risks?
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- May 17, 2023
- The RFID tag is not the next evolution of the barcode. It is technology you should treat as complementary to barcodes. Here’s why.

Why It's Wrong to Think of RFID as a Barcode Replacement
- by: Rikki Jennings
- May 8, 2023
- Nurses need to be at patients’ bedsides delivering care today, not at computers trying to figure out who’s available to work tomorrow. This can help.

Why the Best First Step in the “Retailization of Healthcare” is Implementing a More Efficient Scheduling Solution
- by: Nicholas Wegman, PhD
- May 5, 2023
- Does omnichannel demand planning make sense for mid-tier fashion retailers? Based on the results we’re seeing so far, absolutely. Here are the three key gains over traditional planning methods (derived from real-world experience).

Does Omnichannel Demand Planning Make Sense for Mid-Tier Fashion Retailers?

- by: Johnny Ong
- Apr 28, 2023
- The continued use of handwritten records and manual administration processes in some healthcare settings is hindering the quality of care that even the best physicians and nurses can provide. Let’s talk about how to change that.

Back to Basics: How to Use a Barcode to Automate Data Capture, Positive Patient ID and More in Healthcare Settings
- by: Ashley Barey
- Apr 26, 2023
- There’s no reason why you can’t get quality issues under control. There are now environmental sensors that detect everything from humidity to ambient temperature fluctuations, alerting front-line workers to act fast.

Is Product Spoilage Causing Your Customers to Sour to Your Brand? This Might Turn Things Around.
- by: Your Edge Blog Team
- Apr 24, 2023
- No matter how many machines you power up across your operation, you still need people at the center of your business. So, we asked several experts how you can create a more collaborative tech-assisted workforce.

Reality Check: Why We Need More Human-Centered Automation in the Supply Chain and Service Industries
- by: William Corns
- Apr 19, 2023
- Kirby Best, CEO of Bespoke Manufacturing Company, explains how robots, machine vision systems, and people are working together to help up-and-coming apparel designers make their break in a wallet and environmentally friendly way.

Industrial Automation Insider: Here’s Proof of What Automation Can Do – and How Flexible Manufacturing Can Be – in the Fashion World
- by: Drew Ehlers
- Apr 17, 2023
- The more you automate, the easier it becomes to focus front-line workers on “strategic” activities. But what makes one task more valuable than another – or “the human touch” more valuable than AI? Here’s our take.

A Look at Labor: What are Those Mysterious "Higher Value" Tasks Everyone Keeps Talking About?
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