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What Does the IoT Mean to Modern Manufacturing?
Guest Commentary by Scott Stone, Cisco-Eagle | @CiscoEagle When the Terminator movies hit the big screen in the early 1990’s, it was man versus machine as the human resistance battled robots sent back in time to eradicate it from the world. […]
More women needed in supply chain management
by Carol Miller, MHI VP of Marketing and Communications Women account for 37% of students enrolled in university supply chain courses, but only 5% of top-level supply chain positions at Fortune 500 companies are filled by women, according to SCM World. […]
What if going to school guaranteed you a job?
by Sterling J. Scott, Marketing Communications Coordinator, MHI | @mhi_sterling Going to college guarantees people many things – an education, new experiences, new friends and colleagues, opportunities to grow as a person – but it doesn’t guarantee people jobs. Though going […]
E-commerce and the demand for omni-channel fulfillment
by Carol Miller, MHI VP of Marketing and Communications E-commerce sales are growing 20% annually and are expected to reach $750 billion globally this year. This global shift toward e-commerce is changing how the retail and logistics industries operate. This […]
Future Truck 2025: The Future for Transportation Logistics
Autonomous driving with long-distance trucks will be a reality in ten years time, says Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz. They recently debuted a demonstration video of it’s Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 showing the vehicle driving on it’s own on […]
State of Logistics Outsourcing
The recent 2014 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study results showed the continuing, positive overall nature of shipper-3PL relationships. Shippers agree that 3PLs provide new and innovative ways to improve logistics effectiveness, and that they are sufficiently agile and flexible […]