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Talent Management in Logistics: Why It’s More Important than Ever

Talking Logistics

One is that the CEO of investment firm BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has made human capital management practices one of the top focuses in 2018 for the businesses they manage because they believe how companies manage talent is now an investor issue. The Great Talent Competition.

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Labor Strike Targeting Three U.S. Automakers- Update Four

Supply Chain Matters

The strategy further serves as a method to buffer the dollar impact to the labor union’s worker strike compensation funds, providing the leverage to sustain an elongated strike action. The actions serve as tactic to keep individual auto makers unsure as to which facilities might be next for a labor stoppage.

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Redux on Largest Commercial Aircraft Order in History

Supply Chain Matters

This report further amplifies that the industry’s smaller suppliers are more challenged with talent shortages, especially younger workers, who demand flexibility in work hours and days off. This industry’s supply network’s have much work ahead in fostering needed agility and the ability to sustain supply chain resiliency.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

NC State SCRC

Real-Time Data will also be key in managing risk and disruption, given what was a particularly horrific hurricane season this year. Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring. This is how innovation ultimately occurs.