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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The main pillars are effective processes, professionally trained logistics staff and the use of IT. The tool is available as a free global standard for humanitarian organisations and enables up-to-the minute tracking of food, non-food items, in-kind and cash donations, as well as financial information about goods in the supply chain.

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

The Logistics of Logistics

Government regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) put additional strain on companies to maintain stringent data and financial controls, and often include provisions on how data is maintained by outside vendors and service providers.

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

The prosecution was brought by [the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority] under the air navigation (dangerous goods) regulations 2002. This includes how they must be classified, packed, marked, labelled and documented – as well as the dangerous goods training which must be completed by the people packing and sending them.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Insufficient on-the-job training — Over the period from 2002 to 2013, investments in internal training programs such as apprenticeships, company classroom training, and other structured on-the-job skills development for current manufacturing employees were cut from 469,000 to 288,000 (nearly 40 percent).

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Public Perception of & A Brief Timeline of Moments from the American Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The digital computer was used in 1953 with built-in computer operations to automatically coordinate transforms to compute radar related vectors and the essentially graphic mathematical process of forming a shape with a digital machine tool. Site-specific training and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) likewise become lesser concerns.

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How to Improve Manufacturing Floor Data Collection

GlobalTranz

Although it was published in 2002, the case study highlighted the data collection struggles of a particular manufacturing company that probably rings true for many SMEs and large corporations alike. Consequently, the tools needed by staff for data input were not positioned at the heart of the manufacturing floor.

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Want to Succeed at a Large Firm? Become an Entrepreneur

Logistics Viewpoints

Tymon started at Jabil in 2002, after earning a degree in Industrial Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. The company was using limited homegrown tools and Excel while they were “sitting on Kinaxis!”. The Kinaxis tools support concurrent planning. Manufacturing occurs at over 115 sites around the world. It was overlooked.”