Ralph Henderson, executive producer and promoter with SupplyChainBrain Media, sits down with Jefferson Davis, president of Competitive Edge LLC, to talk about the evolution and future of industry trade shows.

Twenty-five percent of U.S. freight firms cite workforce shortages as their greatest issue, and that 15% of them say recruitment and staff retention is their priority this quarter.

 The ongoing travails at Newark have presented Duffy and the Trump administration with a messaging problem.

The U.S. supply chain industry is dealing with a persistent labor shortage that threatens to destabilize all aspects of the business. 

“They be moving away from ‘trucks and sheds’ to a much more customer-oriented role," said Tom Enright, vice president analyst at Gartner.

The infrastructure to educate and entice manufacturing workers simply doesn't exist, while the Trump administration has sought to deport the very people who would want those jobs the most.

The path toward equity hasn't been an easy one for women in supply chain and logistics, and even today, it's still very much a work in progress.

One approach is to adopt a three-tier approach to staffing, where you have both short-term hires and permanent workers, with a layer of recurring, flexible workers.

Continue fostering good will among your vendors and suppliers, while keeping an eye on the need to diversify on a component level.

There’s an extraordinary amount of insight into why workers stay and leave that can be mined from careful collection and analysis of data.