Features

Data Quality and Timeliness Drive Better Supply Chain Decisions

Data Quality and Timeliness Drive Better Supply Chain Decisions High-quality supply chain infrastructure engines need high-quality, timely data for best performance, but more doesn’t always mean better. * By Mike Ogle * Shipments for production, distribution or sale must be the right stuff, at the right place, at the right time, in the right condition, with the right information. Simple ...

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Teaching the Workforce of the Future About Cool Supply Chain Opportunities

Teaching the Workforce of the Future About Cool Supply Chain Opportunities Eleven educators provide insight into communicating the virtually limitless possibilities the supply chain field offers to students at all levels by answering the questions of “why” and “how.” * By Doug Reed * Educators interface with the workforce of the future regularly—recruiting young people to their classrooms and curriculum, ...

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Industry Focus—Health Care

Industry Focus—Health Care Many are looking to the supply chain for solutions to the health care industry’s challenges, including rising health care costs and dropping hospital profit margins. * By Sandy Smith * Sometime in early 2020, Obamacare will turn 10. But that does not mean anyone is finished talking about health care—or health care reform. In recent months, there ...

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Higher Education: From Student to “You’re Hired”

From Student to “You’re Hired” ProMat 2019 Student Days provided real-world opportunities and even jobs during this record-setting event. * By Maria Leggett * Imagine going from university student to supply chain employee at one of the hottest 100 retailers in a matter of two days. That was Libby Weaver’s experience when she attended the annual Student Days event at ...

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CTE Program: Applying the P-TECH Education Model

CTE Program: Applying the P-TECH Education Model P-TECH schools have established a model for how to empower young people with the skills required by both “new collar” jobs and continuing education. * By Maria Leggett * A few years after MHI’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program was established as an approach to addressing both the current and future shortage ...

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Q3 2018, MHI Solutions: The Case for Next-Gen Supply Chain Innovation

CEO UPDATE: Next-Gen Supply Chain Technology — By George W. Prest, Chief Executive Officer, MHI Anyone who attended MODEX 2018 will tell you, technology is disrupting supply chains and early adopters are successfully combining NextGen innovations to improve speed and agility and increase efficiency and visibility. These trends and technologies are having a dramatic business impact on supply chains, their ...

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PREVIEW: 2018 MHI Executive Summit and Annual Conference

The 2018 MHI Executive Summit and Annual Conference will focus on the NextGen technology, leading trends and enterprise-level best practices explored in the 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report. The Summit and Conference, being held October 14-17 in Orlando, will feature presentations geared to helping businesses take proactive steps geared toward continued competitive growth. Read more here and here…

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Regional Stem Awareness Programs Introduce Middle School Students to Careers in Supply Chain

* By Delana Hopkins, MHI Career and Technical Education (CTE) Senior Coordinator * If the many approaches to tackling the current—and mitigating the future—shortage of skilled workers needed throughout supply chains are programs focused on introducing students as early as middle school to careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. These efforts include special daylong events spearheaded ...

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MODEX 2018 Coverage

MHI released the final numbers for MODEX 2018, which ran from April 9-12 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. MODEX 2018, the 4th edition of the expo, saw a 25 percent jump in the number of registrations for a total of 30,944. The net square footage at MODEX 2018 also set a record, topping out at 283,025 square feet and ...

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