A major challenge for most strategists or creative resources is to get the most material out of a marketing brief. Unfortunately, it is one of the most crucial parts of a marketing or creative campaign; so here are some helpful ways to effectively construe a creative brief! This cannot be emphasized enough: Ask a
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Automated Site Collection Provisioning
In this post, I would like to talk about automated site collection and Teams (Microsoft Teams) provisioning in Microsoft 365. We had to provide a Self-Service site and Team creation for one of the clients instead of depending on Admins and at the same time without compromising governance. For this, we have introduced Admin approvals.
Smart IS’ Approach to Managed Services
By Khurram Ahmad, CEO of Smart IS International COVID-19 has introduced a new paradigm into how IT projects get managed. As we began to learn and adapt to remote office locations and working via conference calls, it quickly came to surface that the real value of a resource is not where they are located, but rather
05 Reasons Web Designers Need to Move to Adobe Xd
Definite Toolbox If you’re a UI/UX designer you have to share your end-product assets with a developer, the process of sharing can involve many complexities particularly with sizing and manipulation. Adobe Xd, primarily a wireframing tool, gives you maximized options to streamline your process by keeping your Toolbox limited and equipped with all the
Auto-Waving in BlueYonder WMS Application
The BlueYonder TM (BY) WMS product comes with a rich featured Wave Planning process. However, it is limited in automating the business rules that are generally operationally implemented during the wave planning process by an organization. When we evaluate Wave Planning SOPs for an organization the following common aspects surface: · A naming convention for
Business Intelligence for JDA/BlueYonder Systems:
Abstract Blue Yonder (BY) tables contain valuable information that can determine important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for a site. Such data exists in tables like “dlytrn” that are extremely large and not easy to query. Moreover, due to deployment decisions it is possible that a customer may have more than one instance of the software
Benefits of Leveraging an Off-Shore Team
American businesses have been outsourcing and offshoring tasks and processes for decades. However, what were once a set of disjointed teams, with ‘low level’, ‘tactical’ tasks and activities thrown over the fence to be completed by the offshore workforce, has now evolved into blended and collaborative teams, jointly working on ‘strategic’ projects with common goals.
Right way to tackle JDA/BY Interfaces
Every WMS implementation needs to deal with interfaces. This includes host interfaces, e.g. interfacing with SAP, Oracle, JDE, etc. and also to the automation equipment. Many times the project plan calls for these tasks at the wrong time and that can lead to overall delays and rework. Timing this activity correctly is critical to the
Is Archiving the way to deal with old data in 2018?
Overview JDA/BY WMS requires customers to have a data archival strategy. The approach that they push and most customers end up adopting is akin to using a sledge hammer to push a nail. The JDA/BY approach is quite interesting and probably an appropriate mechanism if the year was 1995. Their approach is to say that
Metron: Meeting Your Needs
JDA/BY WMS Application offers a multitude of options for enhancing the operational efficiencies of the warehouse. It achieves this through a highly configurable product that can adapt to the changing needs of business dynamics and still achieve the needed operation throughput. While the JDA/BY Application is doing all this operational management for getting the