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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. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists. appear to include the following.

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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

Automotive Logistics

That gives Aptiv’s logistics department a view of when the part has been picked up and on which ocean vessel it is being moved, for example. . The ability of technology to get in and present options, and a more efficient network with automated decisions and things like that, is going to change quite dramatically.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

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. Most sustainability books in my view do not present the full 360 view. What do you say? .

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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