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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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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. This sounds like another example of supply chain whiplash (start and stop) to me. American Shipper reported that indexes measuring container-ship rental rates are now dropping rapidly. The Harpex index, published by brokerage Harper Petersen & Co.

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Streamlining University Logistics: The Path to Efficiency and Sustainability

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Strategies for effective waste management include: Implementing a comprehensive recycling program that covers a wide range of materials, including paper, plastic, glass, and electronic waste (Kontogianni et al., Providing accessible and well-marked recycling stations throughout campus (Koushki et al., References Barth, M., Koushki, P.

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

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. The ADF has experienced this ‘tradition’ in the past.

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

GoShip Blog

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. Facebook: With more than 2.38 One of the best marketing tips is to ask your customers for feedback and act on it.

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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.,

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Industry View: Today is Peak Packaging Monday

Logistics Business Magazine

Businesses widespread are gathering resources and getting their strategies ready as two of the biggest dates in the diary loom ahead. Kite’s ecommerce division was introduced in 2004 and has been continuously evolving since. Its new white mailing bags, smaller bales of wood wool, capacity book mailers and twist wraps are examples.