Square One Supply Chain Podcast

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 Su