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11: Understanding the supply chain labour shortage and potential solutions

Category: Business
Duration: 00:29:10
Publish Date: 2015-07-23 18:01:58
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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

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