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The State of LTL Shipping in Light of YRC Freight Bankruptcy

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Purchase of USF in 2005: The acquisition of USF, though appearing promising on paper, led to integration complications and further increased Yellow’s debt. Aggressive Competition and Price Undercutting With rivals employing aggressive pricing strategies, YRC found it challenging to maintain its price points in a saturated market.

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Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Safety

Logistics Business Magazine

While it may seem counterintuitive that fire is even a risk in spaces designed to maintain cold temperatures, cold storage in fact presents a huge fire hazard for warehouse designers and builders, life safety installation companies and facility owners. So as the demand for refrigerated products grows, so does the need for better fire safety.

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Too few commanders have realised that logistics readiness underpins their strategies, or defines capabilities or the way their forces will fight. Some get it right, and base strategies on the capacity given to forces by their sustaining echelons, bases or auxiliary vessels. while we’ve got the opportunity to do so. 1] Engels, D.,

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

Too few commanders have realised that logistics readiness underpins their strategies, or defines capabilities or the way their forces will fight. Some get it right, and base strategies on the capacity given to forces by their sustaining echelons, bases or auxiliary vessels. while we’ve got the opportunity to do so. 1] Engels, D.,

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

That is part of an overall vehicle efficiency goal of a 50% reduction (from a 2005 baseline) by 2025. Building on their push to incorporate alternative fuels as an emission reduction strategy, logistics companies are increasing their focus on one of the highest cost areas they face: last mile delivery. Last-Mile Delivery.

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Here’s Why Image of Manufacturing as Boring, Dirty, and Tedious is Drastically Changing

GlobalTranz

Each setting is an accurate image of manufacturing from different time periods in history, the past and the present. In 2005, the Manufacturing Institute created and launched the Dream It. However, do you know what these two different environments represent? Manufacturers Will Open Their Doors, Literally.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

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Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. Infographic: The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management.