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[INFOGRAPHIC] The End of Made In China Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

The erosion in the cost advantage has been driven by a confluence of sharp wage increases, lagging productivity growth, unfavorable currency swings, and a dramatic rise in energy costs, states the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based on a study of 25 nations that account for nearly 90 percent of global exports of manufactured goods.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

Read if you’re interested in: The growth of express shipping…and how a core group of dedicated founders can tip the scales of success and help grow a killer logistics company. Read this if you’re interested in: A great case study of a growing company that thrived on global imports and more efficient internal processes.

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TMS Technology Is Being Embraced By Shippers!

Blog on Log

That is one of the conclusions of a study of 173 manufacturers, distributors and retailers by the Aberdeen Group of Boston. Other key findings by the study: Domestic outbound transportation no longer dominates the transportation agenda. Inbound freight and international shipments are gaining focus.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Recently Cerasis asked in the Manufacturing Leadership Community group on LinkedIn, run by Manufacturing Executive. There are many reports about the reshoring movement and how many manufacturers are moving plants back from when they off-shored to China in the 80s and 90s back to US soil. Read Full Post. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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Top 10 Brands Millennials, Gen Z Trust

Material Handling and Logistics

A study by Wharton Business School found that this group is mainly interested in supporting brands that are ethical, caring and strive to do the right thing. And here are the top 10 brands of these two groups combined. . What makes a brand trustworthy to Millennials and Gen Z? . Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

One study of twentieth-century conflicts since 1939 found that the average time between the ‘first indication of war and the firing of the first shots has been 14.3 Ten questionable assumptions about future war in the Indo-Pacific’, from Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, Vol. 2] Babbage, R., ‘Ten 7] Van Creveld, M.,

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Flying High

World Food Programme Logistics

violence, security, the different ethnic groups, religious groups?—?but Before joining WFP, Habib qualified as a pilot, completing his training in August 2004 in Khartoum. I needed money to finish my studies as a pilot so I applied and was chosen as a radio operator,” he recalls. “Iraq was my second home.

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