As companies advance their sustainable development initiatives into the extended supply chain, their suppliers become a crucial source of information and market expertise.

CTL's white paper on the crisis of supply chain's skills shortage, which was published in 2010, generated a huge response and helped to spark an industry-wide debate on how the profession can develop a more effective talent pipeline. However, one vital piece of the puzzle continues to be overlooked: the role of human resource (HR) managers.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is the umbrella term for technologies that fabricate products by building up thin layers of materials from three-dimensional, computer-aided designs. A subset of these technologies, 3D printing builds objects on machines that “print” successive layers of materials such as molten plastic.

Amber Road 1.12994 American Sentinel 1.298 C.H. Robinson 1.3621 Columbus 4.912 Cross-Border 1.219 Exports 1.9997 Freight 1.1532888 Intermec 1.6456 Kronos 1.2998 Legacy Supply Chain Services 2.278 Liaison 1.229 Motorola 2.1349 Pacer International 1.2135 Procurement 1.1061251 Purolator 1.556 Supply Chain Operations 1.353 Supply Chain Risk 1.10059 The BSI Group 1.317 U.S. Xpress 1.1645 white paper 3.1282 White Paper 3.259 white papers 5.818