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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

Warehousing and distribution management is nota core skill. Related to the core skill issue, often organisations that have a strategic focus other than in transport or warehousing, cannot attain the desired performance levelsand key performance indicators (KPIs) required by their customers. It must be a joint exercise.

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Supply Chain Career Changes – How to Get In, Get On, and Get What You Want

Logistics Bureau

and leverage their supply chain skills and know-how to help them move to employment in that sector. General supply chain skills and knowledge can go a long way to helping you adapt to a new industry, but in some cases, you will need additional arguments to convince a potential employer. Supply Chain Skills and Roles.

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Acing the drone obstacle course

World Food Programme Logistics

‘Let’s Fly’ immersive pedagogy builds confidence along with skill in Ethiopia On a bright May morning, the Addis Ababa Golf Club looks like it is readying for a children’s birthday party with red flags and yellow cones arranged in circles, squares and lines. The buzz of only four drones, like a swarm of flies, drifts into the conference room.

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6 Practical Supply Chain Education Tools for Employers

Logistics Bureau

However, running a supply chain still depends largely on manual skills, aided by mechanical handling equipment and business technology, particularly that of a mobile nature. Another way to provide supply chain education to your executives, managers, and other employees is to develop your own training/education program.

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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics

Logistics in War

The third in a series of posts relevant for senior logisticians as they consider the future at the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. Furthermore, with contractor utilization becoming more commonplace on the battlefield, commanders began expecting similar support at home during exercises. By Jessica McCarthy.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. We find that a skill set in another discipline gives students a competitive advantage because it can enhance how they practice logistics and supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Education – The Most Effective Option

Logistics Bureau

Teaching and training people to get their supply chain roles right can therefore be a good return on investment, whether in terms of money, time or both. However, running a supply chain still depends largely on manual skills, aided by mechanical handling equipment and business technology, particularly that of a mobile nature.