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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Disaster Management & Logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

However, the most difficult to prevent and avoid are Rapid onset natural disasters, such as the gigantic Tsunami of 2004, in Japan, that caused many deaths. The efficiency of this phase will depend on the quality of the work that have been done on the first phase : the right distribution of aid materials and sufficient aid personnel.

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Industry View: Today is Peak Packaging Monday

Logistics Business Magazine

For UK packaging supplier, Kite Packaging, the Monday before Black Friday proves to be most demanding in terms of orders as it acts as the last big order day for most businesses who are getting packing materials in ready to sell and distribute goods on Black Friday.

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Panama’s Export Business Thrives

Now, That's Logistics

According to the Journal of Commerce , more companies are recognizing the potential for Panama to become a center for distribution throughout Central America, with some beginning to locate manufacturing and distribution capabilities in the country, where they can be closer to many of their customers. More Economic Expansion Ahead.

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Whatever it takes: One woman’s story of persistence in West Darfur

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Isadora D’Aimmo Huda Abouh Mohamed Ali joined WFP in 2004 in West Darfur, where she is currently Field Monitor and Gender Focal Point. empty, because all the staff were busy at the distribution site. For example, in Ardamata we found a 13-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped by three men?—?she

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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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PINC named Top Logistics IT provider in 2020

PINC

Since 2004 and with hundreds of locations deployed around the globe, PINC Yard Management System helps the largest global companies to identify, locate, and orchestrate inventory throughout the supply chain predictably and cost-effectively. .