Education

Patterson, CA is right off Interstate 5. It’s roughly an hour and a half from the San Francisco Bay, and the high property values in the nearby city have made the town of roughly 20,000 an ideal place for an increasing number of distribution centers—especially large ones. There’s only one challenge: Many of the younger generation coming up, the future ...

David King, owner of Warehouse Design, has been laboring alongside Charles H.W. Edwards, director of the North Carolina Center for Global Logistics, for several years in an attempt to increase awareness and build the future workforce of the supply chain and logistics industry. Little did he know he soon would find one of the next generation’s greatest advocates in his ...

MHI—along with the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA)—works closely with schools throughout the U.S. to support education in material handling, logistics and supply chain. Our programs help high schools, technical schools, community colleges, universities and other training organizations to build and sustain a skilled workforce that’s in high demand throughout our entire industry. In addition to providing educational programs ...

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How to attract and retain the next generation of supply chain workers to our industry is a frequent topic of discussion. So perhaps it’s no surprise that MHI’s Young Professionals Network (YPN) is dedicating an entire educational track to the subject at MODEX 2016. On Tuesday, April 5, the “New Generation Supply Chain Workforce” event includes two panel discussions and ...

Experts agree: Our industry is in the early stages of a talent crisis. With baby boomers retiring, and unemployment low, the impacts of this crisis are being felt throughout the supply chain. We need to find ways to attract the best and the brightest students to pursue careers in our industry. But how? How do we get young people excited ...

For a dozen years, MHI has welcomed hundreds of college and university students to both ProMat and MODEX for Classroom Day. The program is sponsored and underwritten by MHI’s College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) and Career & Technical Education (CTE) Program in partnership with the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. (MHEFI) and the Material Handling Equipment Distributors ...

When faced with a risk to your supply chain, you really only have four options. You can ignore it, and hope that it goes away. You can accept it, and deal with the consequences. You can transfer the risk to someone else, often by buying insurance. Or, you can choose to mitigate the risk by doing something that reduces the ...

A professor walked into a faculty meeting at Bradley University eight years ago waiving a Wall Street Journal article in the air and saying, “We must do something about supply chain management.” The faculty agreed, but where to start? Supply chain management is a hot new field for universities, and we knew that we’d need to take an innovative approach ...

Have you noticed how logistics and distribution activities tend to be concentrated in certain regions? This is actually a key trend that is transforming global supply chains. Yossi Sheffi from the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics wrote a book about this movement in 2012, called Logistics Clusters. He describes a logistics cluster as “an agglomeration of logistics activities in ...