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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Some industries experience more returns than others.

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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

.” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. .” As the organization matures, of course, that structure can shift.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

This Program was a component of the Strategic Reform Program initiated with the 2009 Defence White Paper. There are, of course, many other examples where assumptions had led to risks being accepted in advance of war, and preparedness failures occurred as a result. Before this time, the situation was grim.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece. For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit.

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Transportation Industry Braces for a Looming Transportation Capacity Crunch Crisis in 2017

GlobalTranz

An example would be hearing out reasons behind the needs each side wants to address. Now of course, this continues to strengthen the need for a hard look at how we handle the Highway Trust Fund and how we deal with aging infrastructure. crisis may be an understatement rather than an over statement. Wide shoulders.

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When a Giant Falls: Yellow Corporation’s Exit and Its Impact on the LTL Industry

Trinity Logistics

It almost put them into filing for bankruptcy in 2009. The LTL carriers have course-corrected their capacity concerns. Estes added, “This is a great example of how Estes continues to invest wisely in assets and capabilities that create capacity, opportunity, and resiliency for our company and those we serve. Likely not.

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