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Real Results Magazine: Must-Have Tips to Boost Your Supply Chain

BlueYonder

If you’re like me, you’re reading a couple of good books, have several more on your “got to get to” list and a magazine or two with the corners folded down for when you have a little airplane time or for a quick read over lunch.

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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. IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”.

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Wearable Technology in the Supply Chain: 3 Core Benefits

GlobalTranz

Think back to 2012 when Sam Taylor, CEO of Oriental Trading Company , went undercover in his own company. Well, this example shows how wearable technology in the supply chain was being used 3 and a half years ago in 2012. Use of Wearable Technology in the Supply Chain and Manufacturing. Do you ever watch Undercover Boss?

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

manufacturing is not experiencing a “renaissance” Industry experts conservatively acknowledge that off-shoring has slowed, and perhaps “stabilized” Although around 80,000 manufacturing jobs have come back to the U.S. Manufacturing has gained 700,000 jobs since 2010. safety requirements.

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Supply Chain Movement 21 – S&OP + IT

Supply Chain Movement

rhiannon Davies, joined in 2012 to implement the new supply chain, bring about global compliance and leverage potential efficiencies to drive the strongest conditions and service to customers. “In 29 | Checklist Freight Spend Management. There are numerous ways a shipper can reduce freight spend. Grandvision has grand plans.

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Supply Chain Movement 22 – Logistics Outsourcing

Supply Chain Movement

Manufacturers and retailers welcome the ongoing consolidation in the fragmented logistics industry. Logistics service providers can of course play an important role in the consolidation of freight flows, but the most successful collaborative projects are initiated by shippers themselves. Strategic moves among logistics providers.

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Surviving Disruptions – an opportunity for supply chains to thrive with people and technology – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The short-term strategy to build resilience, is to focus on three major elements, essential to keep freight moving. . Diversify manufacturing base: need to avoid single production base and create multi-location, multi-supplier and building multi-production bases with a diversification strategy. . million job going unfilled. .