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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. In the proper controlled situation, like a distribution center or store, passive RFID can increase visibility without the expensive costs of active RFID tags.

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UK’s Whistl Snaps Up Mail Workshop and Parcelhub

Logistics Business Magazine

Mail Workshop was launched in 2003 and provides eCommerce shipping and fulfilment, printed matter fulfilment, picking and packing. It acquired Prism DM in July 2017 as part of its growth strategy into the fulfilment market. This is the second acquisition by Whistl following a management buyout in 2015.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

Logistics was increasingly a determinant of strategy, while itself remaining influenced by the outcomes of strategic decisions. 3] The need to secure supply-routes and distribution tasks restricted the frequency of combat patrols, and entrenched forces into ‘forward operating bases’ thus reducing the tactical mobility of the force.

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Logistics Hall of Fame Council meets in Berlin

Logistics Business Magazine

The members of the Logistics Hall of Fame Council 2022 are: Dr. Atif Askar (Head of Business Development, Strategy and M&A, TRATON SE), Marten Bosselmann (Chairman Bundesverband Paket & Expresslogistik (BIEK) e.V.), The lists of candidates for both awards are traditionally secret and are not published.

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Too few commanders have realised that logistics readiness underpins their strategies, or defines capabilities or the way their forces will fight. Some get it right, and base strategies on the capacity given to forces by their sustaining echelons, bases or auxiliary vessels.

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Logistics Contractors and strategic logistics advantage in US military operations

Logistics in War

xiv] By divesting logistics to contractors, the US military is also acceding some loss of control over supply chain and distribution systems. Shifting boundaries between what constitutes military and civilian activity has profound security and legal implications, as notions of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and responsibility are challenged.

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Where competition, modernisation and capability meet

Logistics in War

The site appears to have found its niche, filling a gap ‘somewhere’ between strategy, defence institutional performance and modernisation. Fuller once did, that logistics is ‘the basis of strategy and tactics’ and tread further from centuries-old doctrinal roots. [1] It is part of the art of command.

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