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How to Create a Truckload Strategy That Works in Any Market

Talking Logistics

Develop a comprehensive truckload strategy so you’re prepared to handle just about anything. Building the right truckload strategy for your business. The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Select the perfect 3PL to augment your truckload strategy.

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Operation Warden, logistics and what happened next – the final part to ‘Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999’

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont This article, and the series which follows, are an updated version of a presentation given at the Australian National University titled ‘ Logistics preparedness and mobilising the national support base: the effectiveness of ADF strategic logistics prior to Operation Warden 1999 ‘.

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Vertical Integration in the Supply Chain: A Full Guide

Logistics Bureau

Horizontal integration has become the go-to value chain strategy over the last two or three decades, to the point where companies that insisted upon remaining vertical became the outliers in a global field of distributed organisations. For Starbucks, vertical integration is a risk mitigation strategy.

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Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

Our strategy was to lead with shippers, then onboard their vast networks of carrier, broker and 3PL partners. In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil” to help make his point that corporate data has the potential to be an incredibly valuable resource. Data integrity.

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Is bigger always better – Economies of scale and gigantism in shipping

Shipping and Freight Resource

From 2006 to 2013 the prediction of larger vessels was subject to several constraining factors including: subdued trade tendencies, an increase in ship orders, implications at ports and transport infrastructure (i.e. The trend of Gigantism remains strongly in force and has demonstrated few signs in slowing down. the Panama Canal ).

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Perfect retrofit recipe for Almi

Logistics Business Magazine

It’s a blessing because the company, whose strategy is focused on diversification and internationalisation, has experienced constant growth since its founding in 1931. In 2006, Almi built a warehouse on a parcel of land of approx. Everyone’s got to eat! 28,000 sq m, with the contract going to TGW.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. Infographic: The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management.