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The WannaCry Cyberattack: Another Warning for Supply Chain Executives

Talking Logistics

Simply put, if you’re still running systems from 2001 (when Windows XP was first released) and have fallen behind on downloading patches and security updates, you’re playing with fire and have nobody but yourself to blame when disaster strikes. What could have minimized the scale and scope of that security breach?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad. Readers' choice! Significance.

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

Material Handling and Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . In the world of economics, articles abound regarding the controversial issue of whether in the future the U.S.

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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics

Logistics in War

The third in a series of posts relevant for senior logisticians as they consider the future at the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. In this article, US Army logistician Jessica McCarthy examines a challenging, contemporaneous, issue for many Western militaries – how much contractor support is enough? .

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

Logistics in War

ULAC are used by artillery soldiers in the field for the safe transport and storage of propellant and projectiles in training and operational environments. The establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation in 2001 saw the Division disbanded, with its functions reallocated across Defence. South Australian workshop.