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Analysis: Why Upcoming ILWU Contract Negotiations are Making Importers Uneasy

MTS Logistics

For the last two decades, twice the ports and labor could not agree on the terms (2002 & 2014) where there were significant delays in the availability of containers at ports. So, there is definitely a valid reason why the ILWU is resisting so much against automation over the last two decades.

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

Logistics in War

Military terminology changes frequently, and you might note that Defence – in 2023 – doesn’t have an agreed upon definition for what strategic logistics is, nor what logistics at the ‘strategic level’ of war entails. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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

Logistics in War

Military terminology changes frequently, and you might note that Defence – in 2023 – doesn’t have an agreed upon definition for what strategic logistics is, nor what logistics at the ‘strategic level’ of war entails. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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5 examples of the black swan theory

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

SARS pandemic in 2002-2004 sped up the growth of the small company Alibaba, which traded over the Internet. Interesting fact: in the opposite to my personal opinion, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the inventor of the “black swan” definition considers black swans to be an unforeseen events that have significant consequences for the economy.

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Traceability in logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Lot identification and definition. Therefore, a traceability system comprises a set of procedures that make it possible to know the location of a product in the supply chain at all times, as well as to trace its route or know in advance what path it will follow. Internal or process traceability. Forward traceability. • FRESH MEAT.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

And while during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003, China represented 4.3% It might not be in the right format, it may be inaccurate, have definitional issues, or it may be biased. While the disruption is now global, its starting point was in China — the 800-pound gorilla in global production. Indeed, by 2010, China surpassed the U.S.

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[SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER – Irv Rothman] Having the Guts to Be Bold in Business

GlobalTranz

Here is Rothman’s definition of gutsball. With over thirty years of experience, Rothman cemented his Gutsball ethos in the 2002 HP/Compaq merger, a deal that married Compaq’s global reach with HP’s technological prowess and resulted in a state-of-the-art finance and leasing company now producing over $3.5 Gutsball (g?ts’bôl)