Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

In WannaCry’s case, hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Windows XP — an operating system still in wide use today, even though it was originally released in 2001 and Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2014. The recent WannaCry cyber attack exploited a problem that exists at most companies today: the use of outdated software systems.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based. The establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation in 2001 saw the Division disbanded, with its functions reallocated across Defence.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

As the 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference concludes this week in Phoenix, leading industry indicators point to continued consumer confidence. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index unexpectedly surged 6.5 Both were the best since 2001, consistent with the tight labor market with unemployment at 4.1%

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Logistics in War

JUNE 17, 2018

This is the final post from the LIW archives on strategic logistics and logistics challenges prior to the Australia & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. By David Beaumont. In 2016, the Australian Government released its 2016 Defence White Paper and the supplemental Defence Industry Policy Statement.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 13, 2018

The third in a series of posts relevant for senior logisticians as they consider the future at the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. The result is a growing military logistics experience gap, presenting readiness challenges for future battlefields on which contract support may not be a viable option.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This is a long way around to noting that most economic predictions these days are always accompanied by the caveat “…as long as tariffs don’t cause too much damage,” a common refrain among industry association economists in their presentations at the American Trucking Associations Annual Economic Summit held in September.

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