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Top 10 Brands Millennials, Gen Z Trust

Material Handling and Logistics

Ybrands surveyed 80,000 young consumers (ages 13-36) annually about their perceptions of 230+ brands across five verticals: fashion/apparel, CPG food/beverage, health and beauty, QSR/casual dining and media/tech/ entertainment. To date, it has reached the lives of nearly 30 million young people in 138 countries.

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Will the New Tax Bill Bring Overseas Profits Back Home?

Supply Chain Brain

Passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 allowed U.S. At least one recent survey suggests that the result could be different this time. Still, over half of the companies surveyed by C2FO last year indicated that they wouldn’t take advantage of a tax cut on repatriated profits. The law enriched the U.S.

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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. Indicators are that the worker deficit could rise to over 2 million unfilled jobs in the next decade. Skills Shortages.

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

The TT Club subsequently wrote off its investments in Bolero in 2004. In fact, in a recent survey done on the impact of COVID-19 on supply chain, one of the most important trends unearthed was that a whopping 42% said they would change their shipping and supply chain strategy based on their experience with the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Logistics

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. 2020 Gartner Weathering the Supply Chain Storm Survey.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

9 Tactics to Build a Best in Class Manufacturing Safety Program to Impact your Bottom Line: “Over 60% of the CFOs in one survey reported that each $1 invested in injury prevention and manufacturing safety, returns $2 or more. Read Full Post. Read Full Post. What are some issues and trends you see coming to the world of Manufacturing in 2015?

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