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

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. However, some manufacturers will continue to avoid vocational programs in the interim, but they should consider the following ways vocational training will be a major player in addressing the growing skills gap. .

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CVSA Operation Safe Driver Week: What You Need to Know

Trinity Logistics

While this annual event is designed to make our roadways safer, it’s also a crucial week for those in logistics. In partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the CVSA launched the Operation Safe Driver initiative in 2007. This initiative includes an annual event, Operation Safe Driver Week.

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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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The Weekly Freight Report for September 29th, 2022

FLS Transport

The first priority after the storm is helping ensure the resident’s safety, then getting infrastructure back online, clearing debris, repairing damage… This recovery process is long, and these weather events have a devastating impact on the lives of residents, industries, economies, and supply chains across North America.

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Uberisation of Logistics – Are You Too Late?

Logistics Bureau

For example, before Uber started in 2009, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system was already functioning in 2007. Cost-efficient bulk transport to regional distribution centres requires larger vehicles, whether trucks, trains, or boats. This is a round table event for delegates to ask all their burning questions on Supply Chain.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer. It may seem strange that procurement, often viewed as an unexciting part of an enterprise, can find itself embroiled in events and situations that make world headlines.

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The Changing Face of Supply Chain Security

Logistics Bureau

This covers security policies, threat awareness, security training, exercises. Planes, boats, trucks and trains can all carry bombs, contraband goods or stowaways. For example, to prevent tailgating, employees should be trained to (politely) refuse unchecked access to another person. Security awareness. Transport networks.