Talent

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report seeks to understand the current and future impact of key disruptions on employment levels, skill sets and recruitment patterns in different industries and countries, it does so by asking the Chief Human Resources Officers of today’s largest employers to imagine how jobs in their industry will change up to the year 2020.

Competition to empower students to explore forward-thinking topics, covering end-to-end supply chain, logistics and operations management.

With an estimated 2 million manufacturing jobs expected to go unfilled in the next decade, encouraging women to enter supply chain is one obvious solution to the widening skills gap.

The labor force participation rate in the United States peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000 and has declined at a more or less continuous pace since then, reaching a near 40-year low of 62.4 percent in September 2015.

This paper is "An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate" from the BPEA Conference Drafts, September 7-8, 2017.

Only 14% of worry automation will take their job, nearly one-third (30%) say they think automation will make their job better.

The supply chain industry has a clear challenge ahead of it in tackling the talent shortage issue, companies have made progress, but there’s still a long way to go, as such, there are tremendous opportunities for improvement.

Robots, prescriptive analytics and artificial intelligence (ai) are liberating untapped human potential in the supply chain, are you taking action to embrace them?

Manufacturing Workforce 4.0 lays out the future of skills, training and education for the manufacturing industry.

To combat shortage of supply chain talent, K-12 program teaches supply chain concepts with interactive games, provides resources for teachers and parents.

Career and technical education act to align programs to needs of the regional, state, and local labor market while supporting effective collaboration between secondary and postsecondary institutions and employers.

Program to accelerate soldiers' transition to civilian careers in precision machining and industrial technology.

Advanced processes, especially robotics, can certainly boost productivity, and the manufacturing industry is indeed likely to welcome Apple's significant infusion, but it's unlikely to lead to more jobs in the industry.

MIT master’s program in supply chain management earns the top accolade for a second time from global ratings agency Eduniversal.

The Manufacturing Institute, APICS, and Deloitte surveyed over 600 women in manufacturing and conducted nearly 20 manufacturing executive interviews to explore how effectively manufacturing companies are attracting, recruiting, and retaining women, and what should be done to close the gender gap.