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“Women, logistics, trucks, warehouses… very cool!”

World Food Programme Logistics

Then one fateful day in 2006, I saw an opening with WFP on Simeulue, an island in Banda Aceh. Most of my roles were in logistics and supply chain, but since WFP Indonesia’s strategy shifted in 2016, we’ve focused on technical assistance and capacity building. One example is the recent Central Sulawesi tsunami?—?it

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Aptiv is taking a highly centralised approach to the logistics operation supporting the new division and has made Jeffrey Richards its global director of logistics and supply chain operations, responsible for the sourcing, network design, continuous improvement and emergency logistics for all operating units. Tackling complex networks.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Yossi Sheffi of MIT is certainly one of the most influential and I would add interesting figures in supply chain today. Of late, about every three years he produces a new supply chain-related book, the last two being complementary takes on supply chain resilience and risk management. .

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. Maybe a software robot will be writing columns on supply chain topics before too long too. Your Comments/Feedback.

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Capacity Issues? Collaborate! Aggregate! Don't Stagnate!

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I am up in Toronto today and tomorrow participating in a course for Transportation and Logistics' professionals. Capacity Issues - Discussion Points - January 31, 2006 - Toronto Today's capacity crisis is a perfect storm of volume limitations spanning three major modes of transportation: truck, rail, and ocean.

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Cracking under sanctions

Automotive Logistics

Neither Renault nor PSA Group, for example, conducts any significant business with the US, and indeed the European Union put out a joint statement at the beginning of August declaring it was “determined to protect” European companies doing business in Iran. The lack of imported or CKD brands could, of course, overcome that hurdle.