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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline. There is a need for a much more detailed study of logistics readiness than the three articles of this series allows.

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The FarEye Story With Kushal Nahata

The Logistics of Logistics

2013 is when I started FarEye. Before these for a few years, we were training students into robotics. How was that organized, the training of robotics? The next thing we know, there was an article we read in the newspaper which says, “Three guys trying to solve the problems of common men and women.”

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

Unfortunately, this amount of time equates to a higher cost of waiting for more drivers to finish their training, thus driving up trucking rates. told the conference. . told the conference. The Bureau of Labor Statistics asserts courses to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) last anywhere from three to six months.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

It’s a bike ride I’m participating in as part of my training for our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure team ride this September in support of JDRF. Check them out: My other teammates, James Coon (BluJay Solutions) and Ken Wood (Descartes) have been training hard too; I’ll share their photos in a future post. Well, not literally.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline. There is a need for a much more detailed study of logistics readiness than the three articles of this series allows.

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The Emerging Role for Warehouse Drones in the Supply Chain

247 Customs Broker

Five years is a lifetime in the world of technology, but maybe you remember how Jeff Bezos turned the supply chain world upside down in December 2013. Faster than you can say “same day delivery,” drones were the buzzword du jour at supply chain conferences, much like RFID following the infamous Walmart mandate about a decade earlier.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad. Readers' choice!