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'Brexit Is Scaring Businesses to Death': Two Experts Debate the Data

Supply Chain Brain

David Blanchflower , professor of economics at Dartmouth College and member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee from June 2006 to May 2009: The fallout from the disastrous Brexit vote and the even more calamitous negotiations are scaring businesses to death, and continuing apace. Airbus closing plants in the U.K.

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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud

GlobalTranz

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility.

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Now is Not the Time to Worry About Freight Rates

Trinity Logistics

percent year-over-year (YOY), being the sharpest increase seen since February 2006, based on the latest figures from Cass Information Systems. Driver detention is a top concern for truckers finds a 2020 Workhound survey. Communication can be a dying art form with all the new technology and easily accessible data that it offers.

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Philippines: World Food Programme amps up Government’s response as coronavirus bites

World Food Programme Logistics

this is a region in southern Philippines where, since 2006, WFP has been present supporting the peace process. To achieve this, WFP leveraged its technological solutions including SCOPE, a beneficiary data registration and management platform that works both online and offline, with necessary adaptation given the risks imposed by COVID-19.

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Private Fleets or Outsourced Logistics? Which is Better?

Trinity Logistics

In addition, a recent ATRI analysis of census data on employment sectors shows that the trucking industry has the lowest percentage of young entrants and the highest percentage of aging workforce entrants. Current trends point to the shortage growing to over 160,000 drivers by 2028. CUSTOMER SERVICE. FLEXIBILITY. OUTSOURCING BENEFITS.

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“Fewer DC Workers, But More Skilled Openings” Claims Employment Report

Logistics Business Magazine

A study of 33 distribution centres in England, employing more than 7,200 people, has revealed that fewer people were employed per square metre of floor space in 2018 than at any time since the research initiative by Prologis UK began in 2006. The data also reveals a marked shift in favour of the employment of part-time workers.

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C-TPAT Survey - Be careful what you ask for.

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C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey. government to secure their international supply chains?

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