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The Evolving Supply Chain Skills of the Workforce

Material Handling and Logistics

Crandall, a professor in the College of Business at Appalachian State University, in an article for APICS. That sounds like an understatement given the fact the one study found the demand for supply chain professionals exceeds supply by six to one, and the U.S. A recent study by Deloitte bears out what Speier?Pero

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Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations

Blue Grace Logistics

Case Study. For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

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How 3PLs Are Building More Collaborative Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

By providing that level of cus­tomer support, 3PLs should be able to grow regardless of fluctuations in freight demand, Harris said, pointing to his own company as an example. BlueGrace, a freight brokerage and provider of managed transportation services, got its start in 2009 amid a particularly weak freight market.

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The future of strategic mobility by air – reconciling expectations with the capacity to deliver

Logistics in War

While these concepts will help and are worthy of study, they do offer any additional capacity to air mobility forces unless they complement that which exists already. 1] In a further example, the US Air Force has devised concepts to fuel and load fighter jets using C-17 aircraft in austere environments. [2] 6] Andrew C. 6] Andrew C.

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Reshoring Optimism, But Not Much Else

GlobalTranz

While the economy has added some jobs since its nadir in 2009, labor statistics show that employment growth since 2010 has matched, not outpaced, growth of the labor force. Clearly, such articles represent cherry-picked case studies, not a national trend. labor force was 35 percent smaller than it is today).

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Supply Chain Management:Asset Management on Cloud

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Case Studies. |. Thanks Praveen , interesting article offering a concise view on the topic. An example in point is ServiceMax. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Offerings. |.

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Supply Chain Management:'Asset' in Enterprise Asset Management

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Case Studies. |. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. Recently Praveen forwarded us an article on usage of Maximo for tracking Animals as Assets ( [link] ) - a totally new dimension of Maximo isnt?