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Logistics Unleashed: Unveiling the Most Pivotal Events that Shaped its Development

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In this captivating article, we delve into the annals of history to explore the most important events that paved the way for the extraordinary development of logistics as we know it today. The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19. References: Ballou, R. Business Logistics Management.

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Marketing Small Business Tips: 6 Tips to Improve Your Small Business 

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It helps you identify the inefficient aspects of your business processes and decipher the best strategies to refine them. billion monthly users , Facebook remains the biggest social media platform since its launch in 2004. The data helps you identify new trends, niches, or competitors that can inspire your improvement strategies.

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

Logistics in War

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. If production or availability cannot increase, an inefficient transfer of resources from one area of the battlefield to the other can upend strategy. Australian consumers are fearful.

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The Zara’s logistics process

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They are characterized by the retail strategy of adapting products according to the trends dictated by the consumer in the fastest and most efficient way possible, replacing the traditional model in which designers dictated fashion.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

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Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

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Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Role of Social Media. From [link].

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. An unprepared military offers political leaders few options, corrupts strategy, is inefficient and ineffective, and poses a national risk. Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7] 3] Galvin, T., 4] Betts., 6] Van Creveld, M.,