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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

His primary research stream examines firms’ logistics operations, with an emphasis on studying motor carrier safety, productivity, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. He was recognized as the undergraduate faculty member who had the greatest impact on students based on the 2017 graduating senior survey.

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Getting Away from Excel Spreadsheets: A Project Logistics Case Study

Talking Logistics

Almost by definition, every project is different — different suppliers, different materials and components, different locations and product flows, and different requirements and constraints. And if you’re attending the CSCMP EDGE 2017 conference next month in Atlanta, Ms.

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Top Trends in Freight Forwarder Digitization

Freightos

This year’s Freightos mystery shopper study looked to answer these questions. . For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. In the study we looked to online spot quoting as a proxy for the overall digitization of the industry as it’s often a shipper’s first encounter with forwarders. Keep reading for the highlights OR.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

The 2030 roadmap is targeting a reduction in CO2 emissions of 33% for scopes 1 and 2, and of 16% for scope 3, versus 2017 ( definition for scopes 1, 2, and 3 ). The Coupa tool provides a much more efficient way to conduct cost saving/sustainability studies. The company typically does 25 to 50 studies per year.

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

Logistics in War

An acceptable, modern, definition of national support might also be accompanied by clarity with respect to terms such as ‘force scaling’, ‘force expansion’, ‘mobilisation’, ‘surety’, ‘preparedness’ and even ‘strategic logistics’. [14] 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R., 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R.,

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. 1] Leonard Wong and Don Sider cited in Nicholas Jans, The Chiefs: a study of strategic leadership, Commonwealth of Australia, 2013, p 90 [[link]. By David Beaumont.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

The definition above is not from any textbook, but is one that I am sure you will agree, describes a state of affairs that any corporate leader or business owner would be happy to attain. . Mini Case Study: Walmart. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool. So if you want to be sure of business success, review your supply chain strategy.