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Making Drivers Happy with Elisabeth Barna

The Logistics of Logistics

Elisabeth is the Founder of EAB Strategies, a company that provides communications and marketing expertise to transportation and logistics companies, as well as program development for companies seeking to grow their brand and image. She offers public speaking and media training for professional truck drivers and emerging leaders.

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How Supply Chain & Logistics Companies are Mitigating Labor Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

In late 2023, Descartes conducted a survey of 1,000 supply chain and logistics decision-makers across North America and Europe across three sectors: manufacturing, distribution and retail; carriers; and logistics services providers. Companies are changing their hiring strategies to attract workers.

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The Most Overlooked DC Performance Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Survey your users to avoid unseen pitfalls and make sure you’re actually purchasing a solution that provides a good user experience. In addition to product design, training is another opportunity to involve your frontline workers. The post The Most Overlooked DC Performance Strategy appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Prioritising Automation to Mitigate Workforce Shortages

Logistics Business Magazine

In addition to making technology investments to help combat supply chain and logistics workforce shortages, the study indicates companies are also adapting their recruitment and retention strategies and tactics. According to the study, hiring labourers (e.g., warehouse workers and drivers) and knowledge workers (e.g.,

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The impact of new technology on manufacturing education

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

New skills requirements in manufacturing Companies are investing in learning and on-the-job training as the most common workforce strategy to deliver business goals. This can help remove some of the barriers between work and learning and is an effective way to deliver training whilst reducing disruption to employees’ regular work.

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What’s the gig economy mean for the warehouse labor market?

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s explore some of the impacts, good and bad, this new way of doing business has had and some specific considerations if you are looking at implementing a more specific strategy around it in your plans. User-defined training is a wave of the future that workers are embracing. What’s driving the move to gig work?

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The CTO Perspective with Mario Paluzzi

The Logistics of Logistics

Paluzzi spent 10 years at Coyote Logistics overseeing technology product strategy and delivery before joining Logistics Dynamics as Chief Information Officer. There will be less clerk work and more data science work so employees must be trained for their new role. and fear of missing out (FOMO).