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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. Prior to starting AscendTMS, Tim co-founded and ran a national 3PL, where he invited Palm Beach Capital LLC to become minority equity shareholder in July, 2009 in order to speed both internal growth and outside acquisitions. AscendTMS).

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Diess to lead VW Group while Blume heads production

Automotive Logistics

As part of an extensive revision of VW Group’s management structure, Herbert Diess (pictured) is taking over from Matthias Müller as chairman of the board. Diess will also be responsible for VW Group development and research, as well as Vehicle IT.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. Needless to say, the guy didn’t have a lot of credibility with the group, as this was pretty normal behavior. This, of course, is consistent with the message that we Kata Geeks are sending with Mike Rother’s Coaching Kata.

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Why Russian logistics failed in Ukraine?

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

This principle depended on army groups supported by Material Technical Support brigades, and the main means of transportation were railways and pipelines. Logistics on the army group and brigade levels are standardized and largely follow the same principles as they did in the Soviet era.

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WOF Summit promises latest market trends

Logistics Business Magazine

Ahead of the WOF SUMMIT , which takes place in Vienna on 4 th -5 th May, we caught up with Chief Commercial Officer of the WOF Group Christoph Grasl and asked him about this inaugural event. From 2009 he became MD of one of the leading air and sea cargo forwarders in Austria and had the Regional Director role for Central Eastern Europe.

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been setting a personal challenge every year since 2009. Two years ago, I came up with my own big audacious personal challenge : assemble a team of riders from a select group of logistics companies to join me for a 102.7-mile Ken Wood , Descartes Systems Group. Andrew Clarke , C.H.

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Benchmarking Success: Focus on what Matters

Logistics Bureau

He joined Logistics Bureau Group back in 2009 and commenced by running the benchmarking business known as Benchmarking Success. They know of course how they did against last year and they’ll probably have some customer satisfaction metrics, but that’s not the full picture. What makes them tick? What ticks them off?