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Strategic innovations, consolidation of manufacturing processes, and adaptation of operating models and processes to the new post-COVID-19 standard are the key priorities for 2021.

Dedoles is one of the most thriving central European online stores that has managed to successfully cross over to other European markets. With a massive expansion on the horizon, the company decided to innovate and automate its inventory and warehousing processes, leveraging the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and intelligent logistics.

Omnichannel distribution strategy is becoming a necessity for the e-commerce industry. New logistics technologies have contributed to streamlining material flows and creating a more comfortable consumer experience when shopping online.

Supply chain and order fulfillment demands are changing swiftly, as is the development of intelligent management systems. New technologies from the inventory of Industry 4.0 based on the tools of Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), virtualization, and artificial intelligence (AI) are already enabling a generational swing in inventory, warehouse management, and supply chain to meet the complex demands of omnichannel distribution. The rising WES systems [Warehouse Execution System] are part of this generational change.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has stopped the world, it has had the opposite effect on digitalization and intelligent automation since these new technologies provide a solution not only for the crisis but also for the post-pandemic world.

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Picking expenses can account for up to 55% of a warehouse’s total operating cost. Digital technologies enable to optimize not solely operating costs, but also the efficiency, quality, and flexibility of warehouse processes.

The coming decade will bring more revolutionary changes that will impact the logistics and manufacturing industries. The arrival of 2020 signals the advent of several key global trends, and new technologies will play a crucial role in them.

Digital transformation of enterprises and automation of logistics are becoming the norm and necessity not solely for business development, but also for the long-term sustainability of company processes. Practice confirms that the digitalization of logistics unfolds usually in three basic areas: warehouse management, in-plant (manufacturing) logistics and shipping and distribution logistics.

The adoption and adaptation of new technologies are becoming the crux of current enterprise strategies. This causes the pressing need for structuralizing established hierarchy of IT systems. In the age of cyber-manufacturing and autonomization, the position of ERP systems is being reassessed to be properly integrated into the new smart industry infrastructure.

DIGITAL TWIN AS INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TOOL. The technology of digital twin wields such importance because of its dual functionality - as an analytical and controlling tool. Digital twins in combination with the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine intelligence can transform regular objects into intelligent things.

Among the technologies whose importance for enterprises is progressively rising in the era of cyber-manufacturing and smart logistics belong digital twin. Digital Twin ranks among the essentials of Industry 4.0 along Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and machine intelligence.