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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. This sounds like a good problem to have; while having surplus production and availability certainly beats dealing with systemic shortages, logistics ‘scaling’ rarely occurs without problems.

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Logistics Unleashed: Unveiling the Most Pivotal Events that Shaped its Development

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

It is a complex discipline that touches every aspect of our lives, from the products we purchase to the way they are delivered to our doorsteps. In this captivating article, we delve into the annals of history to explore the most important events that paved the way for the extraordinary development of logistics as we know it today.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Role of Social Media.

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India Eyes Becoming the Next China, But Challenges Remain

MTS Logistics

While at the time, India becoming the new China did not seem to be the case, recently Apple switched some production from China to India and Boeing signed a $34 billion deal with Air India (the largest deal in aviation history totaling 220 aircraft), two events which made me research the situation again.

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The History of eCommerce: From the 1960s to the 2020s

Ship Monk

Towards the tail end of the ‘60s, three key events happened in quick succession: In 1968, The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) commissioned the world’s first routers. In 1969, the military developed ARPANET to ensure that critical lines of communication would be maintained in the event of a nuclear attack. Great choice!).

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PINC named 2020 MHI Innovation Award Finalist

PINC

Union City, CA – February 7th, 2020 – PINC , the number-one provider of digital yard management and inventory robotics solutions to the world’s leading brands, is honored to be named as one of the four finalists in the New Product Category for the 2020 MHI Innovation Award with PINC AIR.

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

Blog on Log

In these distributions a vast population of events occur very rarely in the yellow (or more generally have low amplitude on some scale, e.g., popularity or sales) while a small population of events occur very often in the red (or have high amplitude).