E3 Category: MAG 18-03

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Key Performance Indicators are irreplaceable for the achievement of a corporate goal. With the KPI Tower, GIB has now introduced a tool that visualizes the most important key performance indicators.

Smooth order picking and seamless digitization - these are the goals that companies in the logistics industry are currently striving to achieve. Although terms such as Logistics 4.0 and digital transformation are on everyone's lips, there is still a lot of catching up to do in some areas.

With its MSB, Mobisys transfers the "batch size 1" principle to mobile applications for any area of a company, such as logistics or maintenance.

In day-to-day logistics management, the operational key performance indicators for the company's own TUL processes play a key role. Whether status displays for loading and unloading processes, goods location information, capacity requirements, deadline specifications and warnings - no logistics department can manage without continuous communication of its own operational key performance indicators to its own employees and to external companies.

Comprehensive information provision on the topics of digitalization, Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0 and IoT characterize the supporting program of the 16th LogiMat.

Processes that have grown and been implemented in different systems are usually not defined and documented. Without transparent, up-to-date and uniform process documentation, the effort required to acquire process knowledge is unnecessarily high - especially since the lack of transparency is very expensive.

The volatile IT security situation requires rapid responses. NTT Security is rising to this challenge and has implemented a Europe-wide "Security Center of Excellence" concept.

The rapid price gains with Bitcoin, but also reports about spectacular thefts and fraud with the cryptocurrency and price fluctuations have led to the fact that for the first time a majority of German citizens know what Bitcoins are.

The church-owned real estate company Hilfswerk-Siedlung (HWS) from Berlin successfully switched to a new ERP system at the beginning of the year.

For SearchConsult, which specializes in headhunting in the field of digitalization & IT, the new year started with a new name and expanded management:

Trizillium and NTT Data cooperation aims to accelerate integration of Smart SLAs into ITSM processes. NTT Data is now working closely with Trizillium Technologies.