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In this episode, we discuss the rising and significant labour shortage in the supply chain and logistics sector. We answer the following questions:
What is the labour shortage in supply chain?
Why is there a labour shortage?
What are the impacts?
Potential solutions?
The need to attract more women into the sector and better promotions of the sector, especially to post-secondary students as a career choice.
Our featured story is the reverse impact of low oil prices and decreasing Canadian dollar on industrial/commercial vacancy rates in Western and Eastern Canada.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/property-post/property-boom-goes-industrial-commercial-real-estate-strength-moves-east-as-oil-and-dollar-drop
Resources:
1. Canadian Centre for Advanced Supply Chain Management and Logistics
http://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research-centres/c-asl
2. Women in Supply Chain – Stories and Advice
http://www.womeninsupplychain.org/stories-advice/
Canadian Supply Chain Council Sector Report
http://www.supplychaincanada.org/en/sector-study |