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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. In reality, it would take several rounds of fine-tuning to get all the orders sorted into routes without leaving any vehicles underutilised.”

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PODCAST: Modern Courier Delivery Compliance Considerations: Understanding SOX and SOC Compliance

The Logistics of Logistics

As a result, data security and compliance have become a critical component of logistics operations, although implementing adequate controls can present numerous challenges in these complex networks. As a result, data governance has become an essential part of the logistics industry. What Is Data Governance? How long is it held?

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Logistics, preparedness and the Defence Strategic Review

Logistics in War

There is an important emphasis on the ADF’s logistics capabilities, functions and concepts in National Defence – more than usual when compared to other Government policy documents of recent years. This must be achieved while Defence reforms in the wake of National Defence , and in a state of heightened preparedness.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

The Conference, co-sponsored by the AU, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), was attended by over 700 representatives from governments, international agencies and civil society. African youth has the potential and agency to succeed.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

However, as logistics is a comprehensive system of activities and tasks, logistics readiness can only be assured by combining effective resource use with efficient processes, good governance, well-designed organisations with articulated authorities, and a willingness to address often unglamorous issues.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

However, as logistics is a comprehensive system of activities and tasks, logistics readiness can only be assured by combining effective resource use with efficient processes, good governance, well-designed organisations with articulated authorities, and a willingness to address often unglamorous issues.

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

Logistics in War

Also known known as a ‘historical immersion problem,’ a decision-forcing case is an exercise in which participants take on the role of an actual person who, at some point in the past, was faced by a particularly challenging problem. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.