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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

When Mr. Wilson, 59, was released in 2013 he sought out training at Goodwill, where he learned to drive a forklift. He was promoted to a full-time job in 2017, and is now earning more than $16 an hour. The American Trucking Association expect a shortage of roughly 70,000 truck drivers in 2019, which will increase to 175,000 by 2026.

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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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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

But his idea is not totally theoretical – earlier this year EU lawmakers considered a proposal to tax robot owners to pay for training for workers who lose their jobs, though legislators ultimately rejected it. The ATA estimates the shortage could reach 50,000 by the end of 2017 and could even grow to 176,000 by 2026.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ship brokers and consultants estimate about 12 percent of the world’s boxships are stuck outside congested ports for weeks longer than normal, and inland distribution—especially in the US—is still hampered by a lack of trains, truck drivers and limited warehousing space. s CargoNet.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Go for Paperless Warehousing

Vinculum

Warehousing is critical in movement of goods from manufacturer to the end customer. Whenever we come across this term ‘Warehouse’, we imagine a big closed place which is used for storage of the goods to be transported, whether inbound or outbound, trucks moving to and fro, lot of labourers would be working etc. billion in 2018.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

For Amazon employees, it’s time to get back on the train. The retailer plans to have at least 15 of the facilities, dubbed sortation centers, by the end of January 2026. More companies are exploring ways to staff warehouses with robots but may have to wait a few years for the technology to catch up. But the times are changing.