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

GlobalTranz

For example, in China alone, where the last decade brought millions of new participants into the workforce, a skills gap is expected to cause a deficit of 23 million sufficiently skilled workers there by 2030. This is good news for companies that have configured shared workspaces and information systems by this functional model.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my work tonight, I carefully studied 2006-2015 financial results to select the Supply Chains to Admire winners. Higher percentage of growth than the industry average for the period of 2006-2015. Greater margin performance than the industry average for the peer group for the period of 2006-2015. Operating Margin.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

Secondly, to achieve a global standard would require collaboration across industry and require a leading role from China –– producing around 89% of global REEs –– who has historically adopted a protective stance towards information sharing and has only recently begun to actively pursue sustainability objectives (Mark Saxon interview, 2017).

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From Greater Production Traceability to Combating Biodiversity Loss and Meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal 15

EcoVadis

This is why one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG 15 is committed to protecting, restoring and promoting “sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests, combating desertification reversing land degradation and halting biodiversity loss” by 2030. Certifications and Voluntary Commitments.