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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

I was fresh out of the Army, and one of the contractors I had worked with in my last assignment was working as an Industrial Engineer in Boeing Flight Test. Industrial engineers dutifully analyzed each job, and determined the time it should take. In the world of production, though, the culture was far from ideal.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George ( Link ). From an inefficient game of Tetris to global industries that move $19 trillion dollars of goods annually, Malcom McLean changed shipping. Got some suggestions?

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Conscious Clothing? Why Fashion's Going Green

Material Handling and Logistics

For years now, we’ve watched the old guard of the packaged-food industry get pummeled as consumers look to fill their grocery carts with trendier items bearing feel-good labels such as “natural” or “sustainably sourced.”. So we can’t help but wonder: Is the apparel industry next? Catering to Millennials?

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The three biggest risks in logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

A survey series by the Logistics Hall of Fame in cooperation with the logistics insurance broker Schunk Group looks at the current risks facing the logistics industry and how companies are preparing against them. The survey shows the current mood in the logistics industry and is not representative of the industry as a whole.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

This is what daily life in the military is all about; generating forces, individual and collective training, assessing capabilities and conducting remedial activities to correct any problems or deficiencies. 4] Routine exercises and training can achieve high standards of preparedness, at least for a time.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

More personnel – whether military or partners from industry – were engaged in sustaining battle than participating in front-line combat. Secondly, the professional development of the military logistician and the training and education required for future success.

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Joan Aitken appointed Chair of Transaid

Logistics Business Magazine

Joan was first introduced to Transaid at an industry event where Transaid was the beneficiary charity. In 2003 her long standing interest in the role of transport and her regulatory experience came together when she became one of the Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain as the Commissioner for Scotland.

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