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Walmart in a World on Fire

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the companies she holds up as a positive example of a big company addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is Walmart. A few years ago, for example, my oldest child explained to me that Walmart was a malignant force. Rebecca Henerson’s formula for fixing capitalism was a business best seller.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Government Warehouses. Government Warehouses. The United States Federal government leases or owns 90 million square feet of warehousing space across 19,000 buildings. Federal government uses up 15% of all warehousing space in the country. Their pros and cons. Let's dive in!

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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

Logistics Viewpoints

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kenya’s Government celebrates the handover of School Meals Programme.

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Companies Improve their Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Self-reliance and the sustainment of the force – logistics as the bedrock or quicksand of operations in a crisis

Logistics in War

The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. Other examples of logistics influences on strategic competition are before us if we choose to look.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Helped to develop and implement a comprehensive supply chain risk program that included an effective governance structure, practical contingency plans, and crisis response measures.