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Tyranny of the Easy Button: Finding Balance Between Contract & Organic Logistics

Logistics in War

Furthermore, with contractor utilization becoming more commonplace on the battlefield, commanders began expecting similar support at home during exercises. During large-scale military exercises, it is typically less labour intensive for the military to outsource things like field feeding, lodging, and transportation of equipment.

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

This exercise was done before the monthly planning cycle start. This exercise yield positive results, in terms of planning community getting their confidence back in APO system & overall solution, over a period of time. We were also able to identify any specific "Training Needs" for planning community in the long run.

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Supply Chain Management:Face book, Twitter and Asset Management

Infosys Supply Chain Management

This was when they realized a need to delegate "must-have and less skill" tasks to the operators by providing them basic training. EAM can often become a tedious exercise for a public organization due to its inherent nature of spread and unavailability of dedicated workforce for continuous monitoring of Assets. December 2012.

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A hard look at software risks

Automotive Logistics

In 2012, Continental established a Security & Privacy Competence Centre to take charge of this task, headed by Stefan Römmele (pictured). It owns the QNX operating system, which has underpinned critical applications from high-speed trains to internet routers for decades and is now employed by about 40 carmakers.

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Urban Logistics: How to Master the Megacity Challenge

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Moving thousands of people and products effectively from A to B on a daily basis is an incredibly complex exercise, both financially and environmentally. Barcelona, for example, has piloted night deliveries to grocery stores, and during the 2012 Olympic Games, London mandated night delivery for food/beverage vendors and retailers.

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Navigating unchartered waters

Automotive Logistics

The 2018 Global Risks Report, published by the World Economic Forum and Zurich Insurance Group, suggests that the number of cyber breaches recorded by businesses worldwide has almost doubled over the past five years, from 68 per business in 2012 to 130 in 2017. It is also likely that cybercrime remains significantly under-reported.

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Russia’s low-cost influence strategy finds success in Serbia

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Serbian soldiers trained more than 20 times last year with NATO members, compared with twice with Russian counterparts. We have seen Russian attempts to interfere and to influence,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who plans to visit Vucic in Belgrade next week during joint NATO-Serbia emergency-response exercises. “It