January 23, 2014
News

At MIT’s Research Expo 2014, the future of supply chain was on display

By Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor, Modern Materials Handling

You would think that issues like cost reductions, customer service levels and fuel prices would top the list of things that keeps distribution, transportation and supply chain managers up at night. After all, those are the items by which we are most often measured when bonuses are handed out.

But at every industry conference I have attended in the last year, the paucity of talent has been topic number one. That was true at ProMat last January, at the MHI fall meeting, and at the APICS and CSCMP annual conferences.

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