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A few months of assistance = a lifelong income

World Food Programme Logistics

How the World Food Programme helps a group of women make their children’s favourite kurut cheese at home and start up a diary processing business from scratch. She was struck by the product’s information tag: it was imported from Samarkans in neighbouring Uzbekistan. “I Their products were tested and by residents who liked them.

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The New Faces of Trucking

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The passion these young students have is definitely not the norm as reflected in the current representation of women who are commercial truck drivers—approximately just 6 percent of the commercial truck driver workforce is made up of females and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is up only 1.1 percent since 2008.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25 – 31)

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In addition, the tagged products all appear to be from third-party vendors fulfilled by Amazon. Efforts to introduce more women to trucking became even more pressing when the Covid pandemic took hold in the U.S., infrastructure and war efforts Amazon is looking to reduce issues with deliveries that are grouped together.

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Micolet sells second-hand fashion across Europe

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Micolet is a new online marketplace that sells second-hand clothing for women. Tags Europe Spain. What’s interesting about Micolet, is that it enables customers from Europe to shop second-hand clothing from other countries. The fashion company started in Spain, but has now expanded into five more countries across Europe.

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11 Common Maintenance Issues (And a Solution for Each!)

Conger

Employ more women and veterans. Guarding against commonly known hazards, like falls, or ensuring that lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) procedures are followed to protect people from being injured or killed by energized equipment. Retain your current employees by reducing employee turnover. Improve wages. Invest in more workers' training.

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9 Operations Management Problems (And a Solution for Each!)

Conger

Employing women and veterans. Ensure proper lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) procedures for any time that energized equipment is going to be worked on. We've documented them in this labor shortage post. Some of them include the following: Better job marketing. Reducing employee turnover. Increasing wages. Investing in worker training.

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Working together to drive through disruption

Automotive Logistics

The company is developing track-and-trace capabilities to support the visibility needs of finished automotive logistics and is now testing passive and active RFID tags which offer a “brand new level of visibility” that can reveal where cars are parked, Felitto said. Some of them could even “be home every day”. Weathering the storm.