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Impact of a Gulf Coast and East Coast Strike on the U.S. Economy: A Numerical Analysis

MTS Logistics

To understand the potential economic impact, it’s helpful to revisit past events. In 2002, a 10-day lockout between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on the West Coast had a significant impact, costing the U.S. economy over $2 billion per day.

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Supply Chain Data Visibility Paramount as Industry Lurches into Next Chapter

IoT World Today

If we’re going to be able to prepare for these types of events in future, we have to identify appropriate sources of information that we should focus on all the time — not just when [crisis] manifests,” said Randy Bradley, associate professor of information systems and supply chain management at the University of Tennessee.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. I’ve spoken at this event in the past, but this year I came mainly to learn and network with the attendees (over 600 this year, a new record). Descartes, in short, is alive and well.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on

Logistics in War

Second, in the business of the profession of arms, writing ‘p laces our personal analysis of our unique profession in public view. If you feel I am wrong in any recollection of an issue or event, you may be right. If we can avoid mistakes by learning from the experience of others, we have a better chance of prevailing when called upon.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

While a number of factors are doubtless contributing to the Kmart demise, only a minor amount of analysis is required to identify supply chain misalignment as being one of the primary issues, which the company has never managed to correct. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.