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3 Ways to Promote Productivity and Lessen Burnout
While you can’t prevent stress from impacting your people, you can make an intentional effort to create a culture of communication and trust based around key priorities and everyone’s roles in achieving them.
Professional Development
Investing in the Development of Your Logistics Employees
Retail
Out-of-Stock Items Will be Biggest Challenge for Retailers in 2023
Retention
High Salary, Annual Raise Not Enough to Retain Supply Chain Workers: Study
Manufacturing
Need for Job Shops to Modernize U.S. Supply Chains
Sourcing & Procurement
Women in Supply Chain: How to Manage Work-Life Balance
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Software & Technology
Top Tech Startup Award: AI-Powered Automation Takes Over
From AI and robotics to fulfillment execution and real-time visibility, many of today's tech startups are poised to disrupt the supply chain space in a big way.
Mentorship Programs
Supply Chain Network to Moderate Discussion on Humanitarian Logistics at Manifest
This panel will talk about the state of procurement, how to support humanitarian logistical needs and more.
Automation
Warehouse Automation: What to Expect in 2023
Industry experts expect to see an increase in adoption over the next 5 years, driven by several trends, including an ongoing labor shortage, a more integrated warehouse and the introduction of better and more affordable solutions.
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Supply Chain Visibility
5 Trends Affecting Supply Chains in New Year
Adaptability has been key as companies looked to their supply chain teams to overcome a steady stream of disruptive events. Looking ahead to 2023, the end is not yet in sight.
Professional Development
Women in Supply Chain: Not About Being the Loudest in the Room, but the Most Effective
Kathleen Smith, global services operations leader for Converge, an Arrow company, and one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2022 Women in Supply Chain award winners, explains why it’s not always about being the loudest voice in the room.
Warehousing
SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains Kicks off Today
SCN Summit features industry experts and thought leaders from the supply chain space to talk future of supply chains, what’s in store for logistics companies, trends and technologies in logistics and more.
Transportation
Women in Supply Chain: There’s a Place in Supply Chain for Everyone
Paige VanFossen, VP, e-commerce operations, DHL Supply Chain, North America and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details why the many layers to the supply chain industry make it so everyone can be involved.
Retention
Women in Supply Chain: More Gender-Diverse Workplace Produces Higher Performance
Susan Estes, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, Client Services for Open Sky Group and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details how a more gender-diverse workplace environment produces higher performance.
Professional Development
Women in Supply Chain: Don’t Fear Speaking Up
Smitha Raphael, Chief Product and Delivery Officer for SnapFulfil and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details why it’s easy to question what women know about the supply chain, but that goes away once women speak up.
Training/Onboarding
5 Lessons Learned from the Stage at This Year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum
If I could chat with my 25-year-old self and say, one day, you will help create an event where you will not be the only female in the room, I wonder how my 25-year-old self would respond.
Warehousing
Manifest Celebrates Women in LogisticsTech During Women’s Lunch
The Women’s Lunch will celebrate women in LogisticsTech in partnership with DHL Supply Chain, Daimler Truck North America, Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
Professional Development
Women in Supply Chain: Step Back and Understand the Big Picture
Amanda Hall, Director of Quality Assurance at DHL Supply Chain, North America and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain winners, advises newcomers to the supply chain industry to take a step back, understand processes and look for areas to improve.
Training/Onboarding
Gen Zers to Take Smaller Benefits, Less Salary to Work for Company with ESG Goals
Nearly three-quarters of respondents (71%) believe a career in frontline manufacturing is an attractive, challenging and future-focused profession, up from 64% previously.
Training/Onboarding
Virtual Job Assessment Tool for Commercial Drivers
VJT for Drivers enables recruiting teams responsible for large volume hiring to quickly, ethically and more accurately identify best-fit candidates based on job-specific content.
Trucking
Women in Supply Chain: Having Multiple Perspectives at the Table Generates Some Pretty Great Ideas
Kaitlin Rusbarsky, Managing Director, International Operations for NorthPoint Logistics and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details why solutions-minded individuals bring opportunity for the company as well as its clients.
Warehousing
Here's What I Learned at the Women in Supply Chain Forum
The 2022 Women in Supply Chain Forum sparked conversations about women in the supply chain and offered a workshop on collaborative problem solving through self-advocacy, communication and collaboration.
Training/Onboarding
British International Freight Association, Manpower Develop Training Program to Recruit Candidates in Freight Forwarding
The Freight Development Pathway to help identify, attract and train suitable candidates from outside of the freight forwarding and logistics sector for career opportunities with freight forwarding and logistics companies.
Professional Development
The Importance of Store Replenishment During Peak Season
As peak season approaches, finding that fulfillment sweet spot that keeps a variety of shoppers happy is integral to coming out on top. Add in multiple methods of store fulfillment and you’ve got a lot to balance.
Manufacturing
Women in Supply Chain: It Helps to Have Diversity of Thought
Marie McCarthy, Chief Operations Officer for LL Bean and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details why it’s helpful to have more diverse teams at the decision-making table.
Professional Development
Putting the Power of Mobility into Employees’ Hands
The overarching question for business leaders looking to adopt, or further embrace, mobile solutions across the enterprise is not just what to deploy but how to deploy it.
Warehousing
Warehouses Want to Know: How Can We Find More Workers?
EWA can help attract and retain difficult-to-find warehouse employees to fill open positions and in doing so, they’re in a much better place to operate at full capacity and get their products more efficiently in and out the door.
Warehousing
Top 5 Reasons to Attend Women in Supply Chain Forum
As if you need any reason at all to attend our upcoming Women in Supply Chain Forum, here are Top 5 reasons to help you get that registration going.
Trucking
How Companies can Successfully Retain Truck Drivers in a Competitive Market
In today’s labor market defined by phenomena like the Great Resignation and quiet quitting, keeping employees is challenging. These trends combined with unprecedented global supply chain issues make retaining truck drivers even more difficult.
Training/Onboarding
Women in Supply Chain: Grab Hold of Every Opportunity Presented to You
Jing Jin, Head of Solutions at Geekplus America and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details why it’s important to make mistakes, ask the stupid questions and don’t be afraid to take on those opportunities.
Warehousing
Women in Supply Chain: Being Open to Asking for Help Makes Great Leaders
Katie Ekstrand, Director of Inside Sales for Steel King and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, says being open to asking for help and communicating constantly are signs of a good leader.
Warehousing
Attracting and Retaining Workers is a Top Concern in Warehousing
A recent ProGlove survey found that 74% of warehouse leadership are concerned about maintaining productivity levels in the warehouse.
Supply Chain Education
Women in Supply Chain: There's Still More Work to be Done
While the supply chain industry is excelling at incorporating more women in the supply chain, there's still more work to be done.
Professional Development
Women in Supply Chain: Get More Diversity in the Room
Christine Barnhart, VP of product marketing and go-to-market for Nulogy and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain winners, details how getting more diversity in the room helps companies better solve problems for the benefit of everyone involved.
3PL/4PL
Driver Shortage Remains Near Record High
The shortage could swell to more than 160,000 over the next decade.
Training/Onboarding
How VR is Changing Supply Chain Training
VR training can help supply chain organizations accelerate their growth by allowing them to hire and retain the right employees for the job more effectively.
Mentorship Programs
Women in Supply Chain: Be the Example
Tina Sears, VP of warehouse operations for Mouser Electronics and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, explains why there needs to be a paradigm shift. The supply chain is more than just moving trailers and moving boxes.
Warehousing
Women in Supply Chain Forum Provides Networking Opportunities for Female Leaders
Together, let’s continue to share in the education and networking of women in the supply chain.
Professional Development
Why – and How – to Diversify Next-Gen Supply Chain Talent
In order to succeed in the years and decades ahead, supply chain operations need to become more digital, sustainable, innovative and diverse. The question is how to get there.
