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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. 4 Due to their low cost and simple design, cobots are also becoming widely used in supply chain management. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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Steel Tariff Proposition: Will It Work?

Elementum

This viewpoint is based on choices made by previous administrations: in 2002, for example, former U.S. President Bush imposed tariffs of up to 30% on steel imported from Japan and the European Union (EU) which cost 200,000 jobs in steel-involved industries, with the unemployment rate being at 6% by the end of 2002.

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50 warehouse automation stats you should know

6 River Systems

General warehouse industry statistics Warehousing costs & revenue statistics Warehouse efficiency statistics Labor statistics in the warehousing industry Automation adoption in the warehousing industry Warehouse performance metrics Warehouse automation stats: General warehouse industry statistics 1. According to data from the U.S.

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Shippers Dissatisfied with 3PLs’ Dinosaur Technologies

Supply Chain Collaborator

The third party logistics (3PL) model, while critical to smaller, low-volume shippers, has never been the best option for organizations shipping moderate-to-high volumes of freight. The first study of shipper satisfaction in 2002 revealed only 27% of shippers was satisfied with the IT capabilities offered by their 3PL provider.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

In my work with clients, customers bandy about the term “customer-centric supply chain.” The organization is not clear on accepting special requests and expedited shipping policies, often resulting in a lower margin. A customer-centric supply chain is easier to say than implement.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric.