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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

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.” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. The only time it was higher was in December 2005, when it had briefly crossed $15. Fall in the price of natural gas.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

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Both industrial engineering and operations research have their roots in logistics. Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. History of Supply Chain Management: Logistics Comes of Age.

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Whew! It Is Finally Happening.

Supply Chain Shaman

I pride myself on cutting through the hype and getting to the facts. As we have outsourced logistics and manufacturing, I firmly believe that we need to get more serious about the building of Business-to-Business (B2B) networks. We have come a long way from the failed start-ups of over 300 marketplaces in 2001-2005.

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6 Manufacturing Trends to Watch Out for in 2016

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Logistics and Transportation Managers at manufacturers will have reports at their fingertips on how to continue to reduce transportation costs, a heavy portion of the expense budget, by leaning on data to continually improve. Between 2005 and 2008, the average annual number of robots sold was about 115,000 units.

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Freight Driver Shortage Update: Will 2017 Come to a Head & Cause Issues for Shippers?

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Since 2005, the freight driver shortage has grown from 20,000 unfilled positions to 70,000, and some reports suggest the shortage may worsen to more than 170,000 vacancies by 2025. This contributes to a growing bleakness among the trucking industry, causing turmoil among shippers and logistics providers. In a Nutshell.

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