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Why ISO Certification in Freight Forwarding Makes a Difference

MTS Logistics

I have been through ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 9001:2015 audits over 13 years as I helped MTS Logistics develop our own Quality Management System. Choose the right partners and tools based on your standards. In 2018, there were over 20,000 companies that were ISO Certified in the U.S. There are very few in freight forwarding.

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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The main pillars are effective processes, professionally trained logistics staff and the use of IT. The tool is available as a free global standard for humanitarian organisations and enables up-to-the minute tracking of food, non-food items, in-kind and cash donations, as well as financial information about goods in the supply chain.

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

GlobalTranz

manufacturing sector following recent years of reshoring and great slow-down of new off-shoring by major manufacturers, and gradual economic recovery from the 2008 financial markets disaster, appear likely to increase the workforce deficiency over coming decades, in light of ongoing staff shortages. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5 Filling the Skills Gap.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. Throw them away if you aren’t willing to train to them, mistake proof to them and reinforce following them. PDCA Thinking. Today we would use Toyota Kata to teach this.

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

GlobalTranz

We also are including a great infographic on attracting millennials to manufacturing from Tooling-U at the bottom of this article. Unfortunately, the passion began to fall through when the oldest millennials entered the workforce in 2007 and saw a huge economic collapse in 2008. Economic Instability.

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Automatic Replenishment: Everything You Need to Know

Conger

It can require a significant upfront investment in hardware, software, and training staff. The required costs may include equipment maintenance and staff re-training for updated systems. Make sure you’re comfortable with the cost, training requirements, resources required, and performance.

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Supply Chain Management:Gamification - An EAM perspective

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Gamification as a training strategy would help to. It would go a long way in brand building, bringing down training costs, though the initial set up cost would definitely be higher. In our case, it would be use of gamification as an effective training tool. How does it help new users?