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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . In the world of economics, articles abound regarding the controversial issue of whether in the future the U.S. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation.

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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

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IMO 2020 is coming: Why and How to Reduce CO2 Emissions in the Logistics Sector

Forto

In this blog article, you will learn what steps you can take to reduce your production. . In this blog article, you will learn what steps you can take to reduce your production. . 1,000 million tonnes annually between 2007 and 2012 (corresponding to 3.1% IMO stays the course. New IMO regulations 2020.

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How will the tariff war with China affect U.S. container ports?

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In the example above, it is assumed that the full cost of the tariff is passed on to the retail consumer. And this is, of course, the goal of punitive tariffs—to apply economic pressure to Chinese exporters who will then turn this economic pressure into political pressure. Article Topics. But this is unlikely. Subscribe today.

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Talking Trade with World Shipping Council’s John Butler

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Related Articles. We want to make sure that member states, for example, recognize that testing for compliance has a margin of error, as any scientific test does. So it’s a great example of something that has worked quite well, and we’re very much advocating that the regulation be continued. Q: The U.S.

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Battling a perfect storm

Automotive Logistics

One example is the port of Los Angeles, which has worked with GE Transportation and last year introduced a cloud-based port optimiser that provides real-time information on cargo through a single portal that is made available to all the partners involved in the processing of it. Take service parts as an example. Trade wars.