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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

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imports from China grew from about $45 billion per year in 1995 to more than $280 billion per year in 2006. The focus on globalization accented the need for logistics strategies to deal with complex networks including multiple entities spanning multiple countries with diverse control.

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

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However, industry analyses consistently indicate that unless leaders in business, labor, government, and education work together to employ a comprehensive strategy that is effective in all of the following initiatives the skills gap will continue to widen, and the losses to GNP can be most reasonably predicted to escalate.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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Two books on McLean are published in 2006, marking the 50th anniversary of the first commercial intermodal container service. The first of 14 residential shipping container complexes now built in the UK is completed in 2001. . . Significance. Malcom McLean, the “Father of Containerization”, dies aged eighty-seven.