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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists.

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

GlobalTranz

In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility. While this idea seemed ground-breaking in 2006, it has become a commonplace aspect of nearly all Walmart locations.

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Types of MEWPs: The Complete Guide

Conger

The different types of MEWP along with examples of each. Examples of MEWPs. The last major changes happened in 2006. For example, types of lifts included scissor and boom lifts. Examples of MEWPs. Now, let’s cover some examples of all the group/type combinations to make this new classification system clearer.

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

247 Customs Broker

A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The ATRI survey found that the driver shortage topped the list of concerns the industry is facing, marking the first time since 2006 that it was the chief concern.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

That gives Aptiv’s logistics department a view of when the part has been picked up and on which ocean vessel it is being moved, for example. . There are similar worries in both the inbound and outbound sector in Europe.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5