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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. xvi] David Beaumont, “Winning the War for Prosperity: The Military, Supply Chain Security, and the Post Pandemic World,” Logistics in War (blog), March 22, 2020, [link].

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[Infographic]: How Visual Aids Can Improve Safety in the Workplace

GlobalTranz

Our aim at Cerasis continues and will always be to provide the most important information to those in the manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, and logistics industry. Burns has an invested interest in journalism and has been the editor of Magnatag Insight (www.magnatag.com/blog) for two years.

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Will the New Tax Bill Bring Overseas Profits Back Home?

Supply Chain Brain

Passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 allowed U.S. He acknowledges that executives will be under intense pressure from shareholders to distribute any additional profits in the form of higher dividends. In theory, the money could be put to work building new factories, increasing output and hiring more American workers.

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The Long Tail - Can we find a place for it in the logsitics world?

Blog on Log

The Long Tail in probability theory The long tail is the colloquial name given to a long-known feature of statistical distributions ( Zipf , Power-laws , Pareto distributions and/or Levy distributions ). Such distributions can be visualized by the image of the graph on this page.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2014, and over 200,000 page views on those posts alone. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014.

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Streamlining University Logistics: The Path to Efficiency and Sustainability

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In this blog post, it will explored how implementing innovative logistics solutions within universities can lead to significant improvements in resource management, cost savings, and overall sustainability, drawing on academic research, statistical data, and real-world success stories. Kontogianni, S., & Tourkolias, C. Koushki, P.

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Smart box tests show low false alarm rates; other problems may arise

Blog on Log

Before GE Security began taking over the product in 2004 from Swedish vendor All Set Marine Security, error rates were as high as 40 percent, according to industry sources at the time. subsidiary said German conglomerate Siemens will market and distribute its CommerceGuard device in Europe and other markets.