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Skillfully Managing Manufacturing Reshoring Projects

GlobalTranz

There’s more involved in successfully reshoring a foreign manufacturing operation back to the U.S. Reshoring is a hot topic in manufacturing. These “Bring Manufacturing Back” initiatives have many moving parts and require careful planning and execution and very skillful project management. than simple cost comparisons.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

The development, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, involves the interviewing of passengers and crew members who were on-board the aircraft at the time of the incident. Paid subscription). This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Due to unusual atmospheric conditions , Florence may head down the Southeast coast, heading for South Carolina. Evacuations and Shutdowns.

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Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Due to unusual atmospheric conditions , Florence may head down the Southeast coast, heading for South Carolina. Evacuations and Shutdowns.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. With globalization, the need to partner with local logistics service providers becomes an imperative.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9 employment.

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Using Voice-Directed Work in the Supply Chain: What IT Executives Need to Know

RFgen

The questions in the minds of today’s information technology (IT) executives run in an endlessly agonizing loop: Do I have the right infrastructure in place? Even airlines and weather bureaus use automated voice systems to share information. Overview: A Short History of Voice. Voice Technology in the Supply Chain. Real Results.