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

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. Not only do you need to be able to know the full impact of events and decisions across your supply chain, you need to be able to shift plans seamlessly to maintain responsiveness.

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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. From [link].

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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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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

They are characterized by the retail strategy of adapting products according to the trends dictated by the consumer in the fastest and most efficient way possible, replacing the traditional model in which designers dictated fashion. Un Modelo de Empresa Innovadora y Flexible: el caso Zara. Revista de Investigaciones Politicas y SociolĂłgicas.

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Will the New Tax Bill Bring Overseas Profits Back Home?

Supply Chain Brain

Late last year, prior to passage of the tax bill, financial technology provider C2FO surveyed corporate treasurers and other financial executives about what they would do in the event of a repatriation tax holiday or deep tax cut. Forty-six percent said they would return cash to the U.S. The mindset has changed a little bit,” he says.

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Since 2007, the Panama Canal has been under construction to allow larger ships to pass through the gates, which will bring a huge shift in the amount of ocean freight being delivered to both sides of the country, asserts JOC.com Staff. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.

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Why Human Psychology is Key to Effective Human-robot Interaction?

Logistics Business Magazine

Craig Summers, UK Managing Director of Manhattan Associates , reflects on Manhattan Associates’ annual virtual event, Momentum Connect and its biggest takeaway. In 2007 she bought a toy robot dinosaur; “because it had motors, touch sensors and an infrared camera. by the events of the past?18 Professor of?human-robot