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Leaders Discuss Supply Chain

- 5/18/2009
The Supply Chain Execution and Technologies (SCE) Group of Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) recently released a Supply Chain Thought Leaders Series in which their leadership discuss the big issues confronting industry today as well as identify emerging solutions. The first in this series tackles the changing workforce and its impact on distribution.

Even before the current economic downturn, supply chain managers were confronting the challenge of increasing service levels and reducing operating expenses in light of global competition and rising fuel and labor costs. Every business is being forced to rethink the ways in which they manufacture, warehouse, distribute, and ship their products to market. In that environment, is distribution as we know if dead? And if so, how might the distribution model of the future look different? Click here to get answers from Supply Chain Thought Leaders.

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Posted by Dan Staser from Integrated Solutions on May 18, 2009, 4:35 pm PDT

Consumers want everything today, and it's up to us to make sure that happens. Advances in technology really make it possible to ensure fast, accurate distribution.

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