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

GlobalTranz

Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. Even more alarming is the news that 69 percent of the executives surveyed said they expect the problem to worsen over the next five years.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. To help, in this post, we provide you with some insights for the period of 2006-2015. Each year at Supply Chain Insights , we study the progress of public companies in manufacturing, retail and distribution sectors. A Look at History.

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Mush

Supply Chain Shaman

We will be plotting their progress for the period of 2006-2012. August 12th at 11:00 AM Industrial Value Chains the review of semi-conductor, industrial manufacturing, automotive supply chains, B2B communication equipment, and high-tech/electronics. We will be doing this for the first time in this survey. The gloves are off.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

The level of performance in 2015 is the same as 2006. Orbit Chart for Novo Nordisk at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns for the period of 2006-2015. Given the level of industry maturity within pharmaceutical manufacturing, Novo Nordisk has a strong foundation in manufacturing.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. Tipping points are fascinating to watch.

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Mining Supply Chain Data for Insights

Supply Chain Shaman

These are mainly North American-based manufacturers, distributors and retailers.) For example, Johnson & Johnson spans multiple industries (pharmaceutical, medical device and household products manufacturing industries). Correlations Between Survey Factors and Financial Metrics. Shown in Figure 1 is an example of resiliency.

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7 Best Supply Chain Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

Obsolete and out-of-print books are not included. Editor's decision is used to finalize the list of the best books. - The links below are #paid links. What we see is that librarian staffs tend to buy shorter textbooks more than standard textbooks. References - Moed, H. Citation analysis in research evaluation (Vol. & Tang, C.