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BIFA award winners crowned

Logistics Business Magazine

Dawson said that all the winners demonstrated a clear understanding of overcoming last minute challenges to achieve success, which reminded him of his own final mile, or last minute, delivery to Jonny Wilkinson in 2003, who then scored a drop goal that enabled England to win the Rugby World Cup.

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The three biggest risks in logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

” To fight the risks, the executives surveyed specified a number of ongoing measures, including early employee retention activities, comprehensive training programmes, work on top employer branding, and the formation of task forces to motivate in-house staff and recruit external forces, among others. It is sponsored by TRATON SE.

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20 Years of OPM Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

The revolution in food retail logistics began in Parkstein in 2003. When the solution was first presented to the company, I thought: What a brilliant idea. The new machines were proudly presented to the relatives at the family’s day,” Högen remembers the first system that was implemented in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

Pure AN is stable and will stop decomposing once the heat source is removed, but when catalysts are present, the reaction can become self-sustaining (known as self-sustaining decomposition, or SSD). 240 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in sacks exploded after being hit by a shell from a nearby fire in a munitions train. Date:October 2, 2003.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

The second, Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, saw the logistics system falter during the advance at An Najaf , reminding operational planners that the contemporary logistics system based upon new assumptions and concepts was an entirely different beast. This year Logistics in War seeks your help to continue its offerings.

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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. ? SHEPHARD: It has been a while since I last offered comments concerning something so important as people, training and workplace safety. They developed a consistent method to train employees, then they assigned key individuals as mentors. How did they do it?

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Jonathon Roth in The logistics of the Roman Army at war (264 BC – AD 235) argued that the Roman’s success didn’t just come from military culture, training or weaponry. In 2003 the US Army halted for an operational pause outside An Najaf. [11] 6] What was possible was shaped by what was immediately practical. 1] Engels, D., 4] Roth, J.,