随着全球化的持续主导地位，各种规模的企业都需要对其供应链进行现代化改造，以提高灵活性并简化运营，以确保弹性和增长。
根据 Future Market Insights 的最新研究，25 年供应链管理市场总收入为 7 亿美元，预计到 2023 年整体市场将达到 78 亿美元。
在垂直行业中，零售和消费品行业的市场份额是最大的。然而，运输和物流部门预计将以约 14.6% 的复合年增长率增长，成为整个评估期内增长最快的最终用户。
通过集成、自动化以及安全和互联技术实现供应链数字化，可提高可见性、实现实时分析、增强沟通并优化决策。它还可以降低意外延误、通货膨胀和劳动力短缺的风险，同时控制成本和提高生产力。
通常，当组织实施技术解决方案时，他们专注于后端解决方案，而忽略了为一线员工赋能的价值。
这些员工在高压、高压力的环境中工作，导致倦怠增加。 根据 Gartner 的数据，供应链劳动力中的一线员工比办公桌员工多，他们的福祉不能退居二线。
为一线员工提供坚固耐用的硬件和软件解决方案，这些解决方案与仓库管理系统、支架和码头集成，可改善工作流程，确保准确记录，减少处理错误，并提高安全性。
坚固耐用的硬件对于承受极端条件至关重要，包括高达 6 英尺的跌落、恶劣的温度和湿度。坚固耐用的设备具有完全密封的键盘，可防止灰尘或液体的侵入，以及在阳光直射下可读的防刮屏幕。
对于物料搬运专业人员来说，具有可配置选项的坚固型平板电脑为单手安装和拆卸提供了轻巧的外形。手写笔有助于取代笔和纸进行记录保存，而设备的摄像头使许多口头描述变得不必要，从而使数据更易于保存和传输。
结合定制软件（例如条形码阅读器），坚固耐用的解决方案简化了各种任务，包括零件、资产、库存跟踪和信息共享。读码器专为现场工作人员设计，提供多样化且可配置的扫描模式和自定义 UPC 方案，可以集成这些方案以个性化跟踪管理，以适应独特的用例。
该软件还可以通过与组织现有的仓库管理系统无缝集成来增强管理能力。该软件具有精确的资产跟踪功能，可以提供对扫描资产的实时监控。凭借高效且有效的条码扫描功能，将扫描信息与传统系统无缝集成，读码器有助于提高一线工作人员的效率和生产力。
坚固耐用的硬件和软件解决方案可提高其他行业工人的效率，包括：
- 公用事业：提高工人的生产力并改善现场安全性，以进行抄表或监控能源资产。此外，该软件可用于识别设备或轻松访问手册和服务记录。
- 工业制造：坚固耐用的解决方案允许您连接到车间的机器，以便您可以执行工业编程、直接控制机器人、收集技术数据并及早识别潜在的设备问题。
- 医疗保健：支持帮助患者识别、药物管理以及跟踪设备需求的工作人员。
- 公共安全：坚固耐用的解决方案将一线紧急服务人员整合到指挥和控制中心，以实现一致的运营决策和情报。
- 石油和天然气：技术解决方案可实现远程支持、陆上和海上资产管理以及现场数据分析，从而提高工作场所的安全性。
- 零售：支持定期进行价格检查、库存管理和结账处理的工作人员。
根据 IDC 的 MarketScape 报告《2023 年全球坚固型移动设备供应商评估》报告，IDC 企业移动性研究经理 Bryan Bassett 指出：
“坚固耐用的移动设备是 2023 年的关键任务业务工具，旨在为硬件耐用性和功能至关重要的危险一线工作环境中的特定企业用例提供服务。无论是在仓库、店面、医院还是家门口，全球大多数制造和运输的货物都可能在某一时刻与坚固耐用的移动设备相遇。
随着针对一线员工的动员力度增加，坚固耐用的移动部署需求将增加，扩展的坚固耐用的用例也将增加。企业需要耐用、功能强大且专用的移动设备，才能在第二波数字化转型中为一线员工提供支持，而坚固耐用的设备将在这些努力中发挥至关重要的作用。
对于坚固耐用的行业，必须利用正确的设备，以避免因损坏和总拥有成本增加而导致的连续产品购买或设备安装。这些解决方案与智能软件相结合，可简化业务运营，提高一线生产力和安全性，并最终提高利润。
Getac 提供坚固耐用的移动设备，如笔记本电脑、平板电脑和定制软件，为一线员工在充满挑战的环境（包括供应链行业）提供非凡的体验。我们与客户和生态系统合作伙伴密切合作，配置解决方案以满足行业需求和独特的用户场景。
英文原文：
Technology Key to Supply Chain Slump
With the continuous dominance of globalization, businesses of all sizes need to modernize their supply chain to increase flexibility and streamline operations to ensure resilience and growth.
The supply chain management market revenue totaled US $25.7 billion for 2023, according to Future Market Insights’ latest study, and the overall market is expected to reach US $78.5 billion by 2033.
Among industry verticals, the market share for the retail and consumer goods sector is the largest among all. However, the transportation and logistics segment is estimated to grow at about 14.6% CAGR to emerge as the fastest-growing end user through the assessment period.
Digitizing supply chains through integration, automation, and secure and connected technology improves visibility, enables real-time analysis, enhances communication, and optimizes decision-making. It also mitigates the risks of unexpected delays, inflation, and labor shortages while controlling costs and improving productivity.
Often, when organizations implement technology solutions, they focus on backend solutions and overlook the value of empowering frontline workers.
These employees work in a high-pressure, high-stress environment, leading to increased burnout. According to Gartner, there are more frontline workers in the supply chain workforce than desk workers, and their well-being cannot take a back seat.
Enabling frontline workers with rugged hardware and software solutions that integrate with warehouse management systems, mounts, and docks improves workflows, ensures accurate records, reduces handling errors, and improves safety.
Rugged hardware is critical to withstand extreme conditions, including drops of up to six feet, harsh temperatures, and humidity. Rugged devices feature fully sealed keyboards to protect against intrusion by dust or liquids and scratch-resistant screens that are readable in direct sunlight.
For materials handling professionals, rugged tablets with configurable options provide a lightweight form factor for one-handed mounting and dismounting. The stylus helps replace pen and paper for record-keeping, while the devices’ cameras render many verbal descriptions unnecessary, thus making data easier to preserve and transfer.
Combined with customized software, including barcode readers, for example, rugged solutions simplify various tasks, including parts, assets, inventory tracking, and information sharing. Designed for fieldworkers, barcode readers offer diverse and configurable scan modes and custom UPC schemes that can be integrated to personalize tracking management to fit unique use cases.
The software can also enhance management capabilities through seamless integration with an organization’s existing warehouse management system. The software has precise asset-tracking capabilities that can provide real-time monitoring of scanned assets. With an efficient and effective barcode scanning function that seamlessly integrates scanned information with legacy systems, barcode readers are instrumental in increasing the efficiency and productivity of frontline workers.
Rugged hardware and software solutions increase efficiency for workers in additional industries, including:
- Utilities: Increases productivity and improves onsite safety for workers conducting meter readings or monitoring energy assets. Further, the software can be used to identify equipment or access manuals and service records easily.
- Industrial Manufacturing: Rugged solutions allow you to connect to machines on the shop floor so you can perform industrial programming, directly control robots, gather technical data, and identify potential equipment issues early.
- Healthcare: Supports workers that aid patients’ identification, enables medication administration, as well as the need to track equipment.
- Public Safety: Rugged solutions integrate frontline emergency services personnel to the command-and-control center for cohesive operational decisions and intelligence.
- Oil & Gas: Technology solutions enable remote support, on and offshore asset management, and field data analysis, improving workplace safety.
- Retail: Supports workers who routinely conduct price checks, stock management, and checkout processing.
Based on a MarketScape report from IDC titled “Worldwide Rugged Mobile Devices 2023 Vendor Assessment” report, Bryan Bassett, Research Manager of Enterprise Mobility at IDC, notes that:
“Rugged mobile devices are mission-critical business tools in 2023, designed to serve specific enterprise use cases in hazardous frontline working environments where hardware durability and capability is critical. Whether it be at a warehouse, storefront, hospital, or home doorstep, chances are most manufactured and shipped goods worldwide have at one point or another crossed paths with a rugged mobile device.
With increased mobilization efforts targeted at frontline workers, rugged mobile deployments will see increased demand, as will expanded rugged use cases. Businesses require durable, capable, and purpose-built mobile devices to enable frontline workers in this second wave of digital transformation, and rugged devices will play a crucial role in these efforts.”
For rugged industries, leveraging the right devices is necessary to avoid continuous product purchasing or device fitting due to damage and increases in the total cost of ownership. Combined with intelligent software, these solutions streamline business operations, improve frontline productivity and safety, and ultimately, increase the bottom line.
Getac provides rugged mobile devices, such as laptops, tablets, and customized software to enable extraordinary experiences for frontline workers in challenging environments, including the supply chain industry. Working closely with customers and ecosystem partners, we configure solutions to meet industry demands and unique user scenarios.
