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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

However, we don’t only talk about what we do well, we also like to talk about things that may affect manufacturing companies so we can be the maven to resources which are of value to our customers and the industry at large. The data published by MAPI in December 2014 shows that industrial production increased at an annual rate of 3.9%

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

This impact declined at the start of the last decade, and the impact of the third-industrial revolution stopped in 2004. There was a large industry pull of technology providers, consultants and business leaders pushing the belief that the best-run companies had great ERP systems. World Trade Intensity and Annual Growth.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008. So, the ball is in the court of those industries and their governing bodies to come up with their own sustainability goals and plans.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

Examples might be a “state of the industry” report purchased from a consulting company or a publicly available database such as the Census of U.S. United States Steel Corp. These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Manufacturers or the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Apple Inc.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

United States. November the 11 th is Veterans Day in the United States. But it was the Vietnam Memorial that hit me the most; the way it slopes up to a significant height in the middle and then back down, representing time – the duration of the involvement of the United States from the early 1960s through to 1973.

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

” Today, veterans who participated in subsequent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting a similar battle. troops were ordered to dispose of military waste by digging big holes in the ground and setting the waste on fire in Iraq and Afghanistan. … Combat medic in Kosovo and Iraq. The smoke was toxic.”[3].

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Gartner’s survey analysis: Women in Supply Chain 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Industrial manufacturers have noticeably lower representation than other sectors. Holy See (Vatican City State). United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Key Findings. ■ Guinea-bissau. Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan.