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By Sara Pearson Specter Companies are looking to find and train the next generation of supply chain managers. We’ll look at where to find qualified people and available education to bring them up to speed. To view the full article, click here.

By Michael Fickes All categories of jobs in the supply chain – from warehouse and distribution center managers to executives — are feeling the tightening grip of what could become a disastrous labor shortage. To view the full article, click here.

By Dinah Wisenberg Brin “Nearshoring” – a multi-industry shift of outsourced operations from Asia to Latin America – enables U.S. companies to work with factories, data services vendors or call center operators much closer to domestic markets and headquarters. To view the full article, click here.

By Amy Drew Thompson China’s manufacturing dynasty endures, but as the global economy shifts, so too does the nation’s business dynamic. From China’s coming challenges to the impact of e-commerce, the experts bring you up to speed on material handling in the Middle Kingdom.  To view the full article, click here.

Held January 21-24 at McCormick Place in Chicago, ProMat was sponsored by MHI and co-located with Automate 2013. To view the full article, click here.

The Material Handling Industry of America recently changed its name to Material Handling Industry. The association’s rebranding includes new and expanded services and programming for members, including online resources, promotional opportunities, meetings and networking. By Michael Fickes Click to read the story 

More than 50 billion mobile smart devices will be talking to each other and to you by 2020, according to a variety of prognosticators. What will all those smart devices have to say to each other and to you? How do you turn the data they generate into valuable, actionable information placed into the right hands? Click to read the ...

There are people who are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to improve the industry. Case in point: Professor Ben Montreuil, who created the concept of the Physical Internet, which standardizes the way container loads of shipments flow through a networked system, similar to the way of information flows in “packets” through the Internet. Click to read the story

  When the economy slows down, everyone takes a deep breath and hopes that this isn’t the beginning of the second dip of a double dip recession. The economy is slowing now. But economists aren’t forecasting a nosedive. Most say that we’re simply going to grow more slowly during 2013, with strong growth returning for 2014. Click to read the ...