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Unlocking the Future: Young Professionals in Supply Chain Management

Penske Move Ahead

The comprehensive study, now in its fourth iteration, gathered responses from nearly 200 young professionals under the age of 30. Karyn Troxell, vice president of human resources for Penske Logistics, who participated in the study, is optimistic about the industry's potential. "For

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Eat, Grow, Study: School Feeding in Africa

World Food Programme Logistics

Eat, grow, study: School feeding in Africa Political will and commitment to school feeding in Africa is on the rise, with more governments supporting policy, legislation and financing School feeding is changing lives in Africa. Photo: WFP/Dixon This morning, 10-year-old Agnes is rushing to school on the outskirts of Porto-Novo, Benin.

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Mexico conference: Uncertainty well-balanced with optimism

Automotive Logistics

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector. vehicles were exported last year, up 12% on 2016.

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Breaking Down Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Trinity Logistics

In 1956 , “Artificial Intelligence” was officially coined by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon at the Dartmouth Conference. The conference is seen as the founding event of AI. In 2016 Google’s AlphaGo AI played a game of Go against world champion Lee Se-dol and won.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said on an earnings conference call Wednesday that the overstocking that weighed on the company last year was “in the rearview mirror” and that the retailer was turning toward getting fresh merchandise into stores for the fall.

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Looking Ahead to the Future of Grocery Delivery in a Post-COVID-19 World

WorkWave

Grocery delivery has been on the rise, with Business Insider citing that the industry’s value doubled between 2016 and 2018. Even prior to the advent of COVID-19, many industry experts expected a boom in grocery delivery in the coming years; in early 2019, Forbes cited a study that expected the industry to more than double by 2021.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

The first batch of containers was accepted in May 2016, with the final batch coming off the assembly line in June 2016, well ahead of the contracted delivery date. 16] Department of Defence 2016, Defence Industry Policy Statement, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, p 19. [17] When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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