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On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the U.S. Roadmap for Material Handling & Logistics: Version 2.0 will be released at MHI’s ProMat 2017 tradeshow and exposition, held at McCormick Place in Chicago, and simultaneously published on www.MHLroadmap.org . Coinciding with the document’s debut, its seven authors will participate in “ Get Ready for the Next 10 Years in Material Handling and Logistics ,” an on-floor education session in McCormick Place’s South Hall Theater F, from 2:15 to 3:00 p.m. CST to discuss its content. The Roadmap 2.0 report and action plan is the next generation of the original Roadmap, published in January 2014. As an update of the preceding document, Roadmap 2.0 will help the supply chain industry determine how it needs to change between now and 2030. The ultimate outcome is to grow jobs, increase America’s global competitiveness and advance our standard of living. “The first Roadmap was called by some ‘the most important document to be published by the industry in more than 20 years,’” recalls Gary Forger, who spearheaded the effort to develop the original document during his tenure at MHI. “While it was comprehensive for the time, the staggering rate of change in the field during the past three years prompted the creation of this second edition.” Produced in a 7-month-long process, Roadmap 2.0’s content is based on input from nearly 200 strategic thinkers—70 percent of whom did not participate in the development of the first Roadmap—including material handling and logistics practitioners, suppliers, academia, associations and government. They joined one of five roundtable events held August through November 2016. The first draft was released on January 31, 2017 for review and comments. A seven-person writing team compiled insights from both roundtable participants and first draft reviewers the Roadmap. They include: MHI is providing administrative and financial […]