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4 Tips for Finding and Hiring Millennials for Supply Chain Careers

RFgen

The supply chain logistics industry may have a staffing problem. A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. CONTINUE READING about talent acquisition in the supply chain ยป.

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4 Tips for Finding and Hiring Millennials for Supply Chain Careers

RFgen

The supply chain logistics industry may have a staffing problem. A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. CONTINUE READING about talent acquisition in the supply chain ยป.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade. Developing economies can now easily exploit existing containerized supply chains. Significance.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Supply chain risks are reduced. Foxconn, for example, announced plans to reshore in Pennsylvania, investing $40 million for a mostly automated plant. As delivery speed is increasingly important, closer proximity to consumers, supply chain expediency, and convenience of doing business become priorities.

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How Emerging Technologies are Changing Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

.”[1] He insists change is occurring in the supply chain as fast as it is in other areas. Payson Johnston ( @PaysonJ ), CEO & Co-Founder of Crowdz, writes, โ€œSupply-chain management cannot be done in isolation. Machine learning and supply chain management. The learning should never stop.โ€[3]

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Warehouses are the next HOT investment triggered by the digital transformation of the supply chain

NC State SCRC

This is a perfect example of how the physics of supply chains, which are often overlooked, are fundamental to understanding and enabling the “digital transformation” that is discussed so often in the press. billion on the shift towards e-commerce. Online shopping in the U.S. is climbing. Several key points emerge here.