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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Even today, some companies are planning distribution fleet routes using legacy applications that are not a patch on the solutions now available.

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PODCAST: Modern Courier Delivery Compliance Considerations: Understanding SOX and SOC Compliance

The Logistics of Logistics

As a result, data security and compliance have become a critical component of logistics operations, although implementing adequate controls can present numerous challenges in these complex networks. Availability – System is available for operation and use as committed or agreed.

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Logistics, preparedness and the Defence Strategic Review

Logistics in War

Fuel and ammunition feed into the discussion of force posture, and the importance of exercises to build ‘preparedness including minimum viable improvements in key areas’ is also clear (pp 78-80). Nonetheless, the document does present an opportunity to achieve important – vital – outcomes for Defence that must be taken. 1] Betts, R.,

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

The transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Even today, some companies are planning distribution fleet routes using legacy applications that are not a patch on the solutions now available.

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Cultivate a Stickier Customer Base Using WMS Add-On Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Eccles argued that ‘no problem presents more difficulty than trying to determine in advance the most efficient balance of logistics resources and combat forces that will be needed for any campaign’. [2] In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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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.