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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

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We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . Top 10 Most Read Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015. We list them in order of the tenth most read to the most read.

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Will 2017 Drive a Higher TMS Adoption for Small to Mid-Sized Shippers?

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2017 is projected to be a year in which more shippers break out of the mold, embracing newer transportation management systems ( TMSs ). In 2008, statistics involving TMS adoption rates ranged from 20 to 30 percent. Amazon has made great strides in eliminating inefficiencies and creating superior transport systems.

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Where have all the Truckers Gone? 10 Strategies for Shippers to Fight the Capacity and Trucker Shortage

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Transportation capacity problems have been a volatile issue over the past twenty years or so. The American Transportation Research Institute has already identified a problematic decline in trucking capacity over recent years. 2009 was an exception due to the 2008–2009 recession.) Set favorable payment terms and timeframes.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

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Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. Unfortunately, this means an already-strained transportation industry will have additional needs. Reshoring Initiative.

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

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Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts. Economic Instability.

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

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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. Filling the Skills Gap.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

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Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Overall, from 2001 to 2008 average Asian wages increased 7.1-7.8%,