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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Organisations have been redesigned, inter-Departmental capabilities restructured, and capability investments made to enable national responses to potentially existential security challenges. Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1]

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DHL Express expands Johor Gateway facility

Logistics Business Magazine

2.35m) Johor Gateway located within the Senai Airport City industrial park. This offers improved shipment processing for the more than 1,800 parcels and documents bound for and coming from the facility’s busiest trade lanes, namely the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, China, and Japan.

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Know the Kinds of Modes of Transportation

20Cube Logistics

You will definitely try to find out the available modes of transportation that can help move the consignment to your consignee seamlessly. Industries like the automotive and retail industry utilize air freight to complete the JIT (just in time) inventory replenishment. Security of cargo. Less documentation.

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10 Challenges for Shippers in Negotiating Trucking Contracts

FreightWaves SONAR

As explained by Logistics Management , “ it has become an increasing challenge for the logistics industry to stay on top of new advances in business processes. Still, if the carrier loses drivers, there is nothing a shipper can do to secure more capacity during peaking asset demand periods. Disruption is, by definition, unplanned.

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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two

Logistics in War

The strategic order is in flux, Western nation’s previously unimpeded strategic freedom of action is under pressure, acquisition and sustainment processes are constipated, vulnerabilities and gaps within defence industries and national infrastructure are increasingly conspicuous – the list goes on. It is a national security issue.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Solutions that fall under the definition of SCCN would include EDI VANs (electronic data interchange value added networks), industry marketplaces, and collaborative supply chain applications that are built on public cloud architectures. SCCN solutions provide a wide variety of benefits, and a solid return on investment.

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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two

Logistics in War

The strategic order is in flux, Western nation’s previously unimpeded strategic freedom of action is under pressure, acquisition and sustainment processes are constipated, vulnerabilities and gaps within defence industries and national infrastructure are increasingly conspicuous – the list goes on. It is a national security issue.