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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

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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. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists. In recent decades, U.S.

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

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A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The ATRI survey found that the driver shortage topped the list of concerns the industry is facing, marking the first time since 2006 that it was the chief concern.

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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud

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In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility. While this idea seemed ground-breaking in 2006, it has become a commonplace aspect of nearly all Walmart locations. This needed degree of visibility is also present in the supply chain.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

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Aptiv is taking a highly centralised approach to the logistics operation supporting the new division and has made Jeffrey Richards its global director of logistics and supply chain operations, responsible for the sourcing, network design, continuous improvement and emergency logistics for all operating units.

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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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U.S. Dept. of Treasury Task Force issues report to help remedy financial outlook for USPS

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“Congress also killed the opportunity to save significant dollars by eliminating Saturday Mail Delivery (keeping Package delivery), Surveys showed Americans were in favor of this change.”. Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management , Modern Materials Handling , and Supply Chain Management Review. Contact Jeff Berman.