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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

DIFFICULTY FINDING LABOR DIVERSIFYING WORKFORCE TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING OVER INCREASING CYBERSECURITY CARBON NEUTRALITY BUILDING RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS DIFFICULTY FINDING LABOR Manufacturers are still struggling to find labor, with a recent Deloitte survey estimating that the manufacturing sector will be short 2.1 Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Different Delivery Requirements Across Age Groups

Logistics Business Magazine

Even though many ecommerce merchants use data-backed buying personas, that provide insight into the purchasing decisions of their customers, many are only truly starting to get to grips with the next part associated with buying personas – and that is appreciating that consumers have delivery personas too. What about Millennials and Boomers?

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How the CFO Can be a Change Agent in the Supply Chain

Blue Grace Logistics

The CFO is also responsible for identifying opportunities to reduce operating costs without sacrificing the quality of the products and services offered by the company. Supply chain and transportation are two of the biggest cost centers in an organization. The necessity of CFOs involvement in supply chain is not a recent phenomenon.

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Home delivery: one size does not fit all

Logistics Business Magazine

One of the key findings of Descartes’ recent study of consumer sentiment of sustainable home delivery practices was that consumers have different delivery expectations when it comes to sustainability. Moreover, the great news about the delivery options favoured by consumers is that they are all lower cost alternatives.

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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

This means supply chain and logistics professionals need to distinguish between more frequently purchased products and the slower-moving products customers are willing to wait for. In a study of logistics providers conducted by Fraunhofer IML, only 36% of organizations reported that they had a clear overall plan for digital transformation.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. Mr. Sorenson has studied integrated business planning for many years. Too often overhead costs are allocated using broad averages, rather than doing so in a more targeted manner.

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7 Tips: A Guide to Mastering Procurement

Material Handling and Logistics

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. In a recent Forrester study, they found the problem to be poor quality data. Master Innovation.