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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

We needed increased readiness, enhanced mobilisation capabilities, more and better strategic lift, improved logistics, improved engineering capability, better mobility, improved long-range communications and an ability to win water, distribute fuel over the shore as well as improved stevedoring and medical services.’. 3] Galvin, T.,

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

For example, Wal-Mart is very clearly intent on providing consumers with the lowest prices, while Target offers “the better low-price shopping experience” Kmart though, is kind of stuck in the middle with no clear message to differentiate itself. Distribution Strategy and Tactics. I would say “probably not.”

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The Long Tail - Can we find a place for it in the logsitics world?

Blog on Log

The Long Tail in probability theory The long tail is the colloquial name given to a long-known feature of statistical distributions ( Zipf , Power-laws , Pareto distributions and/or Levy distributions ). Such distributions can be visualized by the image of the graph on this page.

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Investment in Romania Boosts European Trade

Logistics Business Magazine

DP World has invested over €250 million in Romania since 2004, including grants from the European Union. An example of nearshoring and reshoring can be seen in automotive manufacturing, which has increased rapidly in recent years in the region and is expected to grow further.

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Panama’s Export Business Thrives

Now, That's Logistics

According to the Journal of Commerce , more companies are recognizing the potential for Panama to become a center for distribution throughout Central America, with some beginning to locate manufacturing and distribution capabilities in the country, where they can be closer to many of their customers. More Economic Expansion Ahead.

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PINC named Top Logistics IT provider in 2020

PINC

Since 2004 and with hundreds of locations deployed around the globe, PINC Yard Management System helps the largest global companies to identify, locate, and orchestrate inventory throughout the supply chain predictably and cost-effectively. .