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MHI Launches New Supply Chain Video Platform – MHI View
MHI is launching a new communications tool – MHI view – a video communications platform that will release content designed to spark manufacturing and supply chain innovation by sharing useful information about the industry’s maturing, growing and emerging technologies. The first MHI […]
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 […]
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 […]
Automation Supports a Productive, Safe Warehouse Environment
Although automation and use of robots to improve efficiency, productivity and employee safety are the norm throughout the manufacturing industry, the warehouse and distribution industry has been slower to adopt automation technology. While the same benefits of automation apply, barriers […]
Amazon considering turning customers into couriers
According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is working on a mobile app internally that would pay consumers to pick up their packages at various retail locations and deliver them to their final destination. The project, tentatively titled “On My Way,” would […]