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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017). In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’.

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Truck Driver Shortage: Getting Better, Worse, or No Problem at All?

Talking Logistics

This past October, the American Trucking Associations warned that the trucking industry could be short 50,000 drivers by the end of 2017. In the report, ATA projects the shortage to reach 50,000 by the end of 2017 and if current trends hold the shortage could grow to more than 174,000 by 2026.

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Guide to warehouse robots: types of warehouse robots, uses, navigation & more

6 River Systems

between 2017 and 2022, reaching $6 billion in value by 2022 , with the U.S. kg to 10 kg (1.10231 lbs to 22.0462 lbs) range held the largest share of the warehouse robotics market in 2016 and is expected to grow at the highest rate during Market and Market’s 2017 to 2022 forecast period. market leading the way.

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Time to Reimagine STEM Education from Bottom to Top

Enterra Insights

A 2015 U.S. ” The Huffington Post , 23 January 2017. [3] 3] Chris Dede, “ A Vision of STEM Education in 2025 ,” Edtech Digest , 23 November 2015. [4] Education For the 21st Century and Beyond ,” Op Ed News , 10 January 2015. [5] The importance of STEM education. Footnotes. [1]

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The Ultimate Guide to Coffee Profit Margins

Unleashed

billion in revenue in the past year, with an annual growth (2015-2020) of -1.0%. billion), growth is in the positives – 0.5% (2015-20) and 2.7% (2019-20). Despite a shrink in revenue growth, profit margins are still in the positives at 3.1%, shrinking only marginally since 2015 (-0.2%). Coffee distributors took in AU$2.3

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

In 2015 it was a dark story if you were a carrier. We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. trillion in 2017, up 6.2% Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017. Kearney and co-author of the report. "In That's when things started to go crazy.

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Amazon vs. Flipkart: The Race to Dominate Indian E-Commerce

Elementum

the Indian e-commerce market is estimated to reach $200 billion by 2026. India became Amazon's fastest-growing market for Amazon Prime in 2017 , having grown nearly 5 times in size between the beginning of the year and October. The potential for serious profit isn’t lost on either company.

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