By John Paxton, CEO, MHI The pandemic has thrown many challenges into supply chains, and rarely have leaders faced such complex and changing conditions. What COVID-19 revealed is that many supply chains grew brittle in their decades-long quest for cost-savings while others that invested in emerging technologies and risk-planning proved to be agile and resilient enough to survive, and even ...
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Transformation Age: Preview of Our Industry’s Next Chapter
MHI releases third edition in a series of forward-looking industry Roadmaps with “Transformation Age: Shaping Your Future.”
Read More »10 Game Changers that Transformed How Supply Chains Work (1945-2020)
A look at how (and which) equipment and technologies have impacted the process of handling, moving, storing, protecting, controlling and disposing of literally everything we use and consume today.
Read More »Discovering Your Professional Potential
MODEX Student Day brings participants together despite COVID-10 and travel challenges.
Read More »Software that Unlocks the Power of Automation
It’s no secret that the ongoing labor shortage and consumers’ desire for ever-shorter delivery times have combined to pose an unprecedented challenge for supply chains.
Read More »MHI SOLUTIONS COMMUNITY: Tips for Staffing the Automated Distribution Center
* By John Paxton * Rupesh Narkar offers a silver lining for parents who are sick of seeing their kids’ eyes glued to their smartphones, tablets and video games: That comfort with new technology will make them ideal candidates for the warehouse and distribution center jobs of the present and the future, so in a sense, some of them are ...
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