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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. Two Specific Examples of RFID in the Supply Chain? This allows for continuous reshaping of research and development, marketing and re-selling strategies, and more.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. The ADF has experienced this ‘tradition’ in the past.

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Choosing forces in a crisis – logistics and the art of strategic decision making

Logistics in War

The impact of logistics on strategic decision making is much less discussed, as is the way logistics factors ultimately shape the choice of forces and strategy for a possible conflict. I will go so far, as I have done so before at Logistics in War, to argue logistics leads strategy in these instances.

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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. Ambition met reality south of Baghdad.

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OSCA brings visibility to jeans supply chain

Logistics Business Magazine

In 1989, for example, the company obtained the license for JOOP! jeans, ending in 2003 with the sale of the JOOP! This is an important pillar for our growth strategy,” announced MUSTANG CEO Andreas Baur in January 2021. For example: “Sustainable cotton” is marked in a field when an order is placed.

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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. Ambition met reality south of Baghdad.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

It is an example of how new technology can save lives and help communities hit by disasters within shorter time spans,” says Androulla Kaminara, Director at the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO). WFP’s capacity building is now being put into action where drones can be deployed when every moment counts.”