HR & Labor Management

Gaming the System: How One Manufacturing Company Saved Itself With Radical Transparency

April 25, 2017

There are three basic conditions if you want to work for Jack Stack, and they go for everybody from senior executives down to the people who clean his company's bathrooms. The first is you have to learn how to read and understand the company's financials, the second is you really have to believe there is no "I" in "team," and the third is you have to get into the habit of asking, "What could go wrong, and what are we going to do when it does?"

With Robots on the Job, It Won't Be IT As Usual

April 20, 2017

Computerworld

With robotics making great strides and more companies welcoming robots into the workforce, IT managers need to start prepping for the changes coming their way.

Supply Chain Millennials: 30 Leaders Under 30

April 19, 2017

Industryweek

As the current Baby Boomer-dominated generation of supply chain leaders starts to reach retirement age, the industry will increasingly need to tap into the younger generations of managers and influencers.

Online Retailers' New Warehouses Heat Up Local Job Markets

April 17, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Retailers and logistics companies have been opening warehouses at a record pace to ensure online orders reach customers as quickly as possible. Now they're struggling to find workers to staff them.

Robots Are Slashing U.S. Wages, Worsening Pay Inequality

April 13, 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Robots have long been maligned for job-snatching. Now you can add depressing wages and promoting inequality to your list of automation-related grievances.

Where Have All the Pilots Gone? A Looming Shortage May Curtail E-Commerce

April 12, 2017

Air Cargo World

Bug smashers, nearjets, flippers, junkstreams. To most pilots, these names conjure memories of their first jobs in the business, flying small aircraft for regional carriers, often carrying cargo. "It's real flying, the sort that puts hair on your chest," a seasoned American pilot named Dover explained. "There's nothing glamorous about it. You are the dispatcher, it's your job to check the weather, and if it's legal to go, you go. But at the end of the day, I wanted to be there because I wanted to fly. I wanted to be a pilot."

Amazon's Robot War Keeps Spreading

April 11, 2017

Industryweek

It was Amazon that drove America's warehouse operators into the robot business.

In Supplier Management, Companies Need to Step Up Their Game

April 10, 2017

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The ability to monitor the behavior and condition of one's suppliers depends on having access to hard numbers. But a surprisingly large percentage of companies lack this critical data.

U.S. Manufacturing Keeps Expanding at Robust Pace

April 7, 2017

Industryweek

America's factories continued to expand in March, demonstrating momentum in an industry that struggled for the better part of the last two years, according to the latest data from the Institute for Supply Management.