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Auto Supplier Relations Not All That Sunny

Material Handling and Logistics

Five of the six major automakers manufacturing and selling vehicles in North America fell in their annual supplier relations rankings, according to the results of the 18th annual North American Automotive OEM - Supplier Working Relations Index Study conducted by Planning Perspectives, Inc. Ford is fourth (363).

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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. One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). Source: Google. Where is Descartes today?

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KONTANE LOGISTICS IN CHARLESTON NAMES NEW COMPANY PRESIDENT, MICHAEL J. STOLARCZYK

Blog on Log

Moller/Maersk Group, including Maersk Hong Kong Limited and Maersk Agency Sro, in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2002, Stolarczyk was named to Fast Company magazine’s debut list of “Fast 50: Global Innovators Whose Achievements Helped Change Their Company or Society.”

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

One study of twentieth-century conflicts since 1939 found that the average time between the ‘first indication of war and the firing of the first shots has been 14.3 Ten questionable assumptions about future war in the Indo-Pacific’, from Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, Vol. 2] Babbage, R., ‘Ten 7] Van Creveld, M.,

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Trucking Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon

Blue Grace Logistics

According to the study: Industrial and Labor Relations Review , there is always a measure of attrition in terms of job loss when a new technology is introduced to an industry. that are used for long hauls, using the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), last updated in 2002,” says an article from HBR.

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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three

Logistics in War

At the operational and tactical level, East Timor may not be a great case study for combat arms officers however for the logistician, there are lessons to be learned at every level from the Commander Joint Logistics down to the private soldier. I chose these because I was personally involved in each. Real-estate.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. Group Managing Director. Where Did Supply Chain Strategy Fall Down at Kmart? Did Kmart actually have a supply chain strategy?