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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Companies need to be always aware of new trends and ready to meet what the market demands at the right time, given the importance of the sector. Distribution 4. Nowadays, the fashion industry demands more and more creativity, versatility, and especially agility to compete in the market. Purchasing and production 3.

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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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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. ix] Molly Dunigan, “The Future of US Military Contracting: Current Trends and Future Implications,” International Journal 69, no. vii] Mandel, “American Government Expeditionary Operations,” 13.

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PINC Awarded 2020 Great Supply Chain Partner

PINC

” Since its founding in 2004, PINC has been a pioneer in providing real-time visibility and workflow orchestration to yard operations across distribution centers and manufacturing plants worldwide. An array of Fortune 1000 enterprises currently utilizes PINC’s digital yard management platform.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. Averting this outcome depends upon business leaders and government policymakers to actually implement measures to reverse the present trend.

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Pallet-Track expands Black Country hub

Logistics Business Magazine

The business launched in Woden Road West, Wednesbury in January 2004, moving 852 pallets on its first night of operation and now, after a record start to 2021, has signed a lease on a new 150,000 sq ft facility on the same road, with scope for an additional 4,000 pallets per night.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I remember speaking a few years ago with Art Mesher, Descartes’ CEO from November 2004 through November 2013, and he attributed the turnaround to Descartes’ shift from a “culture of selling” to a “culture of serving.”