Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

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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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. Hoarding will occur. 1] Eccles, H.,

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Logistics in War

JANUARY 23, 2019

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. Planners may have predicted the characteristics of the war before them, with capabilities ready to meet the threat, but the ability to deploy and support those forces will ultimately determine their worth. 3] Galvin, T., 4] Betts., 6] Van Creveld, M., 7] Betts.,

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2015

For example, a position as a welder, which may be involved in manufacturing, sounds much more lucrative as a “metal repair shop” than a “mass-production manufacturer.” Manufacturers must employ the use of technology, science, and mathematics in operations to meet millennial expectations for widespread innovation. Role of Social Media.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Around 2004 we started a project to migrate an existing tool for planning for the BP Petrochemical Aromatics business over to AIMMS. Take scheduling for example. Another scheduling example comes from a fleet of barges we operate to move liquids. How long have you been using AIMMS?

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

“The impact of this strong performance has been reflected in other parts of the world as well, principally in the ports of the East Coast of the United States,” AJOT reports, “which are in various stages of deepening and expanding their channels to meet the growing number of Neopanamax vessels now transiting the Canal.”.

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Blog on Log

DECEMBER 1, 2005

They focus on reliable service execution, mindful that today's lean manufacturing processes rely on consistently meeting shippers' time-definite demands. import volumes in 2005 will be 8 percent to 10 percent greater than 2004's robust levels, with no end in sight. But offshoring is not without risk to the supply chain.

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