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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Economic Instability.

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TikTok Recruiting Videos… Are You Missing Out?

Go Hire- Logistics

Jess runs the popular HR blog, Workology, which she started in 2007. She highlights TikTok as an underutilized yet powerful tool for recruitment marketing and great recruitment video. Why is TikTok becoming a worthwhile tool for recruitment? Her TikTok playlist features numerous examples that have worked well.

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Trade tension tariff activity figures to be in effect for more than a while

247 Customs Broker

The heightened and somewhat frenetic pace of tariff activity is ostensibly full-throttle all the time these days, and this week’s events are clearly no exception. For example, the United States exports automotive parts to Mexico to be assembled into cars. It is now bigger than what it was before the big crisis of 2007-2009.

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

247 Customs Broker

Through all these major world events, the number of containers loaded with imports moving over U.S. In this light, even the worst-case scenario—in which $60 billion of import duties are levied on Chinese goods—pales in comparison to the magnitude of these other events. But this is unlikely. Worst-case scenario. Subscribe today.

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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. 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?

247 Customs Broker

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