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Key IT Advances Shaping Vehicle Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

The 2024 Trend Report, built on the insights from previous surveys in 2018 and 2013, presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges and advancements within the vehicle logistics sector. At the same time, more than half of those surveyed (56%) fear they will have to contend with capacity issues until 2025 or much longer.

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

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Indicators are that the worker deficit could rise to over 2 million unfilled jobs in the next decade. Skills Shortages.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

Yesterday we spoke about the top motivations and reasons why reshoring in America from offshored facilities has several benefits and what are the statistics of reshoring since 2013. Nexant received about 200 survey responses from compounders, fabricators, equipment suppliers and toolers. Most of them, however, never left our shores.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

About 11% of carriers have vehicles that use a fuel other than diesel or biodiesel blends, according to a 2016 survey by ATRI. Currently the company’s natural gas fleet numbers 1,000 (twice what it was in 2013). UPS has been working on the issue in Europe as these older cities present major challenges.

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How US Manufacturers can Improve Manufacturing Productivity to Overtake China

GlobalTranz

That’s according to a survey of global CEOs and senior executives. Armagard’s theory is that heavy investment in computerizing the US manufacturing floor has presented the industry with a new set of challenges. Author information Daniel Waldron Head of Content at Armagard 11 years+ a copywriter, Daniel joined Armagard in November 2013.

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CSCMP EDGE 2018: Strong Economy, Tight Capacity, Stringent Consumer Demands Fuel Supply Chain Growth and Efficiency

Penske Move Ahead

Presenters included Dr. John Langley, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and author of the 23 rd Annual Third-Party Logistics Study: The State of Logistics Outsourcing, and Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. The cause of disruptions has also remained consistent.

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The seismic potential of digitalised manufacturing

247 Customs Broker

Working Group presented their paper at the Hannover Messe, where more than 220,000 representatives of the world’s engineering and manufacturing industry gather every year to see the latest innovations in production and automation technologies. Industry 4.0 For its proponents, Industry 4.0 Are they buying it? approaches. in the previous year.