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How to Make Your Supply Chain More Resilient

Logistics Bureau

The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time. Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. In Part One of this series asking the question, ‘how much readiness is enough?’

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. But first, what is route optimisation?

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

Planning cycles in this environment tend to be slow and often, when you reach a compromise on the plan, unexpected events force you to go back to the drawing board. Download our case study to find out how Tereos Sugar & Energy Brazil has improved its S&OP Process with optimization technology.

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Depression in Truck Drivers: 5 Common Causes & How to Spot the Signs

United World Transporation

The best way to combat lack of sleep is to try to keep a regular sleep schedule, exercise, and limit caffeine and alcohol. There can be feelings of guilt from not being there, especially for big-life events. Sleep is so important, especially for truck drivers who may have differing schedules and long work hours.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. The slide below provides an overview of SupplyChainPlanning.com: Source: LLamasoft.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. In Part One of this series asking the question, ‘how much readiness is enough?’