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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

The result is that companies must balance the expectations of these groups with the need to make a product that consumers want and are willing to pay for. While studies show that consumers want sustainable products, only 5%-10% will actually pay a price differential for that,” Sheffi says. In the U.S., Lauderdale.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

A military logistician is a study in contrasts. A decision-forcing case drawn from the annals of the South Atlantic War of 1982, one called ‘Commando Logistics Regiment’, presents participants with a comparable conundrum. Between 2007 and 2017, Dr. A link to his site can be found here.

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House approves Air Cargo Security Improvement Act

247 Customs Broker

And the Committee added that legislation also requires the TSA Administrator to conduct a feasibility study—and a subsequent pilot program—on expanding the use of computed tomography (CT) and other emerging technology for air cargo screening. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Entitled, H.R. This legislation, originally sponsored by Rep.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. I personally know of several Fortune 500 firms today that have large internal data science groups which literally did not exist five years ago. This method is also a part of the IRB study to test it on 30 people. .

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Some reading suggestions, while you wait in the airport!

Blog on Log

Excerpt: “The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.”

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The Top Logistics and Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders to Know for 2020

Shipchain

He a sought-after author, having written both best-selling books and timely pieces in Industry Week Manufacturing Network and Supply Chain Management Group. Steve Banker is the Vice president of Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group and co-author of Logistics Viewpoints. Steve Banker. and abroad. Patrick Burnson.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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“The dire predictions that robots are going to take our jobs are overstated,” said Susan Lund, co-author of the study for McKinsey, adding “There will be enough jobs for everyone in most sectors.” In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S. Managing Director, AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd.