Industry       

So you like computers? If you are skilled in the realm of computers, your job prospects could be looking pretty good in the next few years. According to statistics from the US government, jobs as a computer network or systems administrator are growing faster than jobs in other sectors. In …

 Manufacturing       

According to the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico are responsible for 80% of the manufacturing output in Latin America. Moreover, MAPI forecasts that overall manufacturing output in the region will grow 4.4% in 2012.
As reported in Industry Week, Mexico’s export-linked manufacturers continue to grow on …

 Import-Export       

Entire law firms exist solely to manage the legal side of financing corporate transactions. All the legal documents necessary to close a deal, from those that deal with loans to the payment scheme to the securitization to the establishment of potential future liability require expert legal preparation, and often need …

 Industry       

Particular machines or filtration systems require sealing products be manufactured using certain chemical compounds. This is particularly true if a part in a machine like an O-ring might come in contact with food or water. General purpose compounds may still qualify for use in manufacturing something like Food Grade O-rings, …

 Industry       

When considering how best to optimize your warehouse operations to great effect, managers may sometimes overlook the obvious, succumbing instead to high tech solutions in Warehouse Management Software only.  While a strong WMS is vital in maintaining critical areas of a well run warehouse, it does not eliminate the necessity …

 Innovation       

When the US housing bubble burst, many homeowners had a harsh wakeup call about home ownership.  Gone were the dreams of large, expensive homes at relatively low prices with exponentially appreciating price tags.  To the contrary, homes depreciated overnight while variable-rate mortgages ballooned.  Havoc ensued, many properties were foreclosed upon, …

 Manufacturing       

A recent survey by Deloitte has found that US manufacturing companies have up to 600,000 jobs unfilled.
It goes to show that bringing manufacturing jobs back to America is easier said than done. The jobs exist, the capital is there, it’s now just a matter of personnel.
Many of the vacant jobs …

 Manufacturing       

A new chapter is unfurling in the ongoing manufacturing jobs saga I’ve been on here at The Warehouse. To recap, over the past ten years (and likely, for longer than that) US corporations have been dealing with the high price of doing business in the US simply, by fleeing. Manufacturing …

 Other       

In a piece published by Newsweek, former Michigan governor Jennifer M. Granholm details how the recently passed debt compromise affects America’s workers. Despite what you’ve heard, it actually turns out that American multinational corporations have had a net job increase somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 since the turn of …

 Other       

Japan’s nuclear crisis appears to have subsided – rather, international news outlets are covering it less ferociously – but the toxic aromas of its after effects are still fresh in the air. The Japan Times recently reported that beef from six cows irradiated by the Fukushima No. 1 power plant …