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The Most Overlooked DC Performance Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies must also offer a healthy workplace which listens to their workforce and offers modern tools that keep workers happy in addition to being productive. In fact, a study by LinkedIn found that 70% of employees would not work at a leading company if it meant they had to tolerate a bad workplace culture.

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Why are WMS Sales so Persistent? Here is How I Learned of WMS’ Ongoing Importance

Logistics Viewpoints

I am currently finishing up this year’s version of ARC Advisory Group’s annual WMS market research study. I then questioned if there is some other factor at play in the technology’s persistent growth. I started researching supply chain software markets about 15 years ago. Its All About the Details. My Learning Path.

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Gemba Process Innovation Can Drive Wave in Europe

Logistics Business Magazine

In combination, innovation in technology continues to rewrite the possibilities for business. In Japan, Gemba Process Innovation is being used to radically review, redesign and reinvent operations using technology to increase efficiencies and free-up creative potential. Of course, technology alone cannot solve these challenges.

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Why are WMS Sales so Persistent? Here is How I Learned of WMS’ Ongoing Importance

Logistics Viewpoints

I am currently finishing up this year’s version of ARC Advisory Group’s annual WMS market research study. I then questioned if there is some other factor at play in the technology’s persistent growth. I started researching supply chain software markets about 15 years ago. Its All About the Details. My Learning Path.

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Supply chain trends to watch out for in 2023

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. It’s become an essential activity.

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Are Graduate Degrees Leading to Less Job Options?

247 Customs Broker

Supply chain areas like transportation and logistics have in particular reported robust hiring and some difficulties in finding skilled workers. According to this report, significant job gains occurred in the logistics area including couriers and messengers, and warehousing and storage. in 2011 to 2.1% in December 2018.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

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The technology sector in Lagos is perhaps the one area where the city’s potential is writ large. With little or no government support, savvy entrepreneurs built the so-called “Computer Village” in the Ikeja capital district of Lagos, where there is hardly an information and communication technology (ICT) hardware that cannot be found.