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Toyota extols safer logistics at seminar 

Logistics Business Magazine

The Safer Logistics Theatre will be an expert-led, free-to-attend seminar programme featuring a range of high profile speakers who will provide valuable insights into maintaining an optimal health and safety regime within the warehouse and across the supply chain. The I-Site package features a range of tools to ensure maximum on-site safety.

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Editorial: Continuing the discussion on sustaining self-reliance

Logistics in War

At the seminar there was little pretence that a military of the size and resources of the ADF could sustain its strategic and operational ambitions independent of its allies. The seminar will be the subject of a series of reports to be found on the sites www.defense.info and www.sldinfo.com.

Seminar 71
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Building on bedrock or sinking into quicksand – a report on Sustaining Self-Reliance

Logistics in War

. ‘Supply chain security continues to occupy our minds as we intermingle our desire for national prosperity through global trade with our desire to prevent the loss of native capacity to build military capability, mobilise and sustain operations. War won’t always begin when the first shots are fired.’

Seminar 63
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Sustaining machines – logistics and autonomous systems

Logistics in War

This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. When greater logistics capacity is found, this naturally means more options open up for the strategist, tactician or capability manager. By David Beaumont.

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What’s Driving the Increase in Transportation Management Technology Spend?

Talking Logistics

Transportation capacity has, and will, continue to be the most dominant factor in transportation management for the next five years (see Figure 2). The adoption of transportation management technology becomes more important as it critical to helping companies get the most from the capacity that exists in the market.

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Is logistics the ultimate conventional deterrent?

Logistics in War

This debate is being litigated through the Williams Foundation who are running a seminar on the topic during August 2018. . Indeed, it is military logistics activity which truly defines a nations capacity to respond militarily to its challenges, and most certainly to deter adversaries – realistically – in a competitive environment.

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Realising the sustainable joint land force

Logistics in War

I was fortunate to be invited to present on the Australian Army’s approach to logistics transformation and development at a recent Australian Army Research Centre (AARC) Seminar. The AARC Seminar, Realising the sustainable joint land force , concludes with a proposed strategy for the transformation of Army logistics.