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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. Not only do you need to be able to know the full impact of events and decisions across your supply chain, you need to be able to shift plans seamlessly to maintain responsiveness.

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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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Lessons Learned from Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Ship Monk

Interest rates have not been this high since 2007. It’s Gone Global Black Friday/Cyber Monday is now a global event. Perhaps this will be the year to invest in more powerful data analytics tools. Much ado has been made about inflation, and its probable effect on consumer spending. Will inflation put a damper on holiday sales?

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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? Why is TikTok becoming a worthwhile tool for recruitment?

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

In fact, despite billions spend on DC automation in recent years, the number of warehouse workers has risen from 574,000 in 2007 to 837,000 in mid-2017, the last time I checked. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S. There are again many factors behind this, including offshoring, changing order profiles and more. U.S.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

. Sheffi starts, for example, with the extreme pressures coming from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), notably Greenpeace, about which one environmentalist says “When Greenpeace reaches for its toolbox, it tends to find only one tool, and that’s a mallet.” In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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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. Consumer goods (aka final goods) are sold directly to the consumer.