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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

BOLERO ( B ill O f L ading E lectronic R egistry O rganization) was launched in September 1999 as an electronic trade community to provide a common and open system for businesses to exchange trade data and documentation electronically without the involvement of paper. The TT Club subsequently wrote off its investments in Bolero in 2004.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. 4] Routine exercises and training can achieve high standards of preparedness, at least for a time. adfwc/Documents/DoctrineLibrary/ADDP/ADDP_00_2_preparedness_and_mobilisation.pdf. [2] Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7]

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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. According to our own research at Logistics Bureau, less than 40% of businesses have documented a strategy for their supply chain operations.