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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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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. While such an application might have been effective, and Procter and Gamble might have been pleased, it is not in conformance with the approved manufacturing process instruction specification for the aircraft. That was up from a reported 10 percent in 2013.

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Champions of Sustainability: Tim Cook

QAD

Sustainability has become both a strategic and operational objective for manufacturers globally. Although Tim Cook is best known as the Chief Executive Officer of Apple, he also stands high in the ranks of people dedicated to environmental preservation and the drive to manufacturing sustainability. Who is Tim Cook?

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How to Measure Sustainability in the Juice Value Chain

EcoVadis

In recognition of the growing social significance of sustainability and their commitment to responsible action, Eckes-Granini developed a Group-wide sustainability strategy in 2013 and embedded it in their Corporate Strategy Agenda 2020.”

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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030. Supply Chain 2030. While Colgate posted better margin (.21

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7 Supply Chain Technology Trends Set to Disrupt Supply Chains in 2017 and Beyond

Arkieva

In the supply chain, manufacturers have been increasingly focused on customers, with demands for customer centricity spawning the release of individualized products, as well as, creating an entire supply chain process that is customer focused. of the market in 2013. In fact, according to IDC, by 2018, 27.8% in revenue up from $22.6B

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Back in 2013, in a post titled “Siri Comes to Enterprise Apps,” I wrote the following: Instead of manually executing tasks with a mouse or touch screen, why not speak them? Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime (TechCrunch).