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Research

September 13, 2017| by Ashley DeVecht

Here’s the Bottom Line

Labor costs make up more than half of all costs—how do you manage them?

Each day your company relies on supervisors to manage an efficient warehouse. More than 50% of the costs of running a warehouse are labor costs. How well are you controlling these costs? Are you getting […] Read More

September 6, 2017

Where Is All the Metal Going?

MSCI investigates the decline in service center steel and aluminum shipments.

MSCI recently completed a preliminary study of the sluggish recovery in service center metals shipments, with findings summarized in the white paper “Permanent or Temporary?”. Here we summarized key insights!   Read More

August 2, 2017| by Steve Lawrence

Permanent or Temporary?

MSCI investigates the historic downturn in service center steel and aluminum shipments

The answer, hardly comforting though still preliminary, seems to be that changes up and down the industrial metals supply chain are rooted in both cyclical and structural causes. The unprecedented, sluggish economic recovery since the […] Read More

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