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Innovative Strategies Needed To Attract, Train And Retain Workforce to Support Supply Chain Innovations
By Carol Miller, MHI Vice President of Marketing & Communications Services In addition to examining the eight innovative technologies anticipated to help meet companies’ struggles to meet customer demands for faster, better service at lower costs, the 2015 MHI Annual […]
Auto ID and RFID are driving supply chain visibility for next generation supply chains
Moving a roll of cloth destined for military uniforms from manufacturer to warehouse to fabricator has been, until recently, a time-consuming, labor-intensive process. The introduction of automatic identification—specifically Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)—has transformed it. Manufacturing employees used to handwrite each […]
Mike Rowe Addresses Workforce Shortage and Gives Back Through mikeroweWORKS Foundation
by Morgan Cruz, Marketing Content Coordinator, MHI | @mhi_morgan Mike Rowe, best known for his past role on Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” and his own production on CNN “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” is giving back through his mikeroweWORKS Foundation. The foundation promotes hard […]
U.S. logistics costs up 3.1 % in 2014 to $1.45 trillion in 2014 as truck driver shortage remains key concern
Total US business logistics costs rose to $1.45 trillion in 2014, a 3.1% increase from the previous year according to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) 26th Annual “State of Logistics Report®.” However, the growth rate for logistics […]
Supply Chain Optimization
Driverless vehicles, drones, 3-D printing and wearable technology certainly beckon for supply chains. But before moving on to the latest in whiz-bang gadgetry, a stabilizing question: Just how “optimized” are your network and inventories first? If you’re missing the connection, […]
Eight technologies are transforming supply chains
MHI Roundtable leader and MHI member John Hill recently discussed the findings of the 2015 MHI Annual Industry Report with Supply Chain Brain’s Russell Goodman. In this interview, Hill discusses the impact the eight technologies identified in the Report are […]