Pros to Know: Optimizing Processes is Necessary in Bridging Worker Shortage

Eunice Lobo, director of operations for ALOM, details why it's important to understand people, understand their situations and optimize processes to fill those gaps in the labor shortage.

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May 9, 2022
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Eunice Lobo, director of operations for ALOM and one of this year's Pros to Know winners, details why it's important to understand people, understand their situations and optimize processes to fill those gaps in the labor shortage.

"Learn how to be creative, how to optimize, how to simplify processes," she says. "Learn that [supply chain professionals] don't know everything, learn how to understand people and learn how to be a human being."

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