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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Economic Instability.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. But the opposite is not true – if you optimize one link, you have not optimized the entire supply chain.

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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

In 2007, the state created Apprenticeship Carolina, a program designed specifically to increase public recognition of accredited apprenticeship programs, and the program has been expanded to include Youth Apprenticeship Carolina, reports The Manufacturing Institute. . However, recent events suggest this trend is coming to a sudden stop.

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Synergy Logistics celebrates 50 anniversary

Logistics Business Magazine

Back in 2007, the SnapFulfil suite was architected for the web utilising Adobe Flex and Microsoft.NET-based C# programming. ” The 50th anniversary is being celebrated throughout the year with staff and customer rewards as well as events and competition initiatives.

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List of NGO participating to the APC 2019

World Food Programme Logistics

List of NGO participating in the APC 2019 WFP has invited over 60 NGOs from all over the world to participate in its Annual Partnership Consultation, a key event for WFP and its NGO partners to come together and engage in strategic dialogue.

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NAFTA's New Trade Highs.Are You Suprised?

Blog on Log

billion in March 2007, the highest monthly level ever recorded. surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico jumped 97 percent from March 1997 to March 2007, with imports growing 110.4 In April, the most recent month for which statistics are available, U.S.-NAFTA NAFTA trade tallied a solid $65 billion, 5.3 The value of U.S.

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The Industrial Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Logistics Bureau

When leading economists start talking about a drop in manufacturing comparable to the start of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, you can be sure that the world’s leading industries are in for a torrid few months. How US Techno Giants Have Responded to COVID-19.