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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”. The skills gap is a dense compound of pervasive problems in education, employment market demographic shifts, social currents, and in the national economy. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5 Meanwhile, the U.S.

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The Future of Analytics in Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Trend

This article will draw an analogy with the mapping and car industry to suggest that prescriptive analysis as an opportunity to support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and business optimization, is not a final stage, but just at the beginning of a new planning era. Only 15 years ago we still used paper maps in our car.