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Logistics, preparedness and the Defence Strategic Review

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont National Defence: Defence Strategic Review was released to the public on 24 April 2023, to a defence ‘community’ only too eager to scrutinise the document for its consequences on the ADF’s capability mix. Naturally, there is a way to go to realise the intention of the document as many sceptical commentators point out.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

So thats the route were taking in this article (no pun intended), we’ll be exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. But first, what is route optimisation? Let me break down what you really need to consider.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

Some also think the solutions available in the market are too difficult to use or too expensive. In fact, as Market Watch reports, close to 90% of spreadsheet documents contain errors. Spreadsheets are inexpensive and familiar. People often stick to using them because they think they can’t afford a more advanced solution.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

Also known known as a ‘historical immersion problem,’ a decision-forcing case is an exercise in which participants take on the role of an actual person who, at some point in the past, was faced by a particularly challenging problem. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Sometimes the best thing a preparing military might do is wait otherwise limit the use of its capabilities if it wants its technologies to be available when they are required. All militaries enjoy large-scale exercises, simulations and desk-top analyses but very rarely do they focus upon the logistics process. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

I wrote at the time : ‘There is an important emphasis on the ADF’s logistics capabilities, functions and concepts in National Defence – more than usual when compared to other Government policy documents of recent years. This must be achieved while Defence reforms in the wake of National Defence, and in a state of heightened preparedness.

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Mitigating the risk of quarantine and COVID-19 testing for seafarers

Shipping and Freight Resource

The availability or not of travel options from the seafarer’s home to the port. If no further test is possible (or the result is not available), the seafarer should follow shipboard self-distancing (SSD) for the first 14 days onboard or until a negative test result is available. This is mainly due to.