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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. It required the establishment of reliable supply chains, leading to the emergence of trade caravans, rest stations, and security measures.

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Penske Logistics Given U.S. EPA SmartWay Excellence Award

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This year's awards were celebrated during a virtual event. Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 143 million metric tons of CO2, 2.7 Penske Logistics was among 62 truck and multimodal carriers to receive this distinction, representing the best environmental performers of SmartWay's nearly 4,000 Partners.

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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. A normally stable balance of supply and demand is upset by events, with consumer behaviour in panic-buying magnifying the problem. Australian consumers are fearful. 1] Eccles, H.,

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The Zara’s logistics process

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Thus, the speed of Zara’s supply chain brings another advantage: The new goods arrive in the stores only twice a week, with which the company entices its customers. Zara is a worldwide icon of fast fashion, renewing both men’s and women’s clothes once a week.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

It is necessary for us in the ADF to prepare for the confluence of events that inevitable occur over a longer term than we envisage. We need only look at the events of late 2019 and 2020 and the confluence of bushfires, pandemics, and geostrategic tensions to show how organisations and other groups respond to the foreseen but unanticipated.

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Keynote: McAfee stresses power of platforms and the crowd

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McAfee’s point: Don’t assume computers are only good at transactions; they can excel at complex judgements, something which could be applied to supply chains. “We He has been a contributor to MMH since 2004. We now have a new colleague [in AI] that is going to show us how much more is possible,” said McAfee.

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PINC named 2020 MHI Innovation Award Finalist

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Since 2004 and with hundreds of locations deployed around the globe, PINC Yard Management System helps the largest global companies to identify, locate, and move inventory throughout the supply chain predictably and cost-effectively. PINC is now scaling up its recently announced PINC Aerial Inventory Robot (AIR) solution.