Logistics in War

JULY 23, 2019

This article looks at how logistics readiness has shaped military success and failures, created the nature of operations, and most certainly the capacity of militaries to be viable as a force. Fuller in his biopic of Alexander; supply was the basis for operational – if not strategic – mobility. [1]

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 11, 2019

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, conferences, festivals… But nothing as big as the World Cup. There are a lot of controversy in those events as they involve a high amount of work in extremely dangerous conditions, especially during the organisation of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where a lot of riots occurred.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Eduardo Solis, executive president of the Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), told delegates at the Automotive Logistics Mexico conference last week that the industry there had been “growing significantly” and now represented 20.2% of GDP, second only to the food industry at 20.7%. Crime on the rise. The requirement for 62.5%

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. Operating at Capacity.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. For example, only 1% of China’s 560 million city residents breathe air that is considered safe by the EU. The following are just a few examples. kg of carbon emissions. This is a big deal.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

But regardless of whether reshoring is increasing or not, we are still seeing world class manufacturing companies reshore their operations back to the United States. Envisioning What is Manufacturing as a Triangle.And Match them Up To Real American Manufacturer Examples.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Both parties must develop human resources to improve operations. At times, both parties agree to remuneration for Kaizen Blitz events, Six Sigma problem solving. Process improvements and Continuous Improvement Opportunities. Strategic Human Resource Development System. Human Resources should be trained for continuous improvement.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

Long distance rail connections are central to this trade and, at the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference last week, speakers from China Railway International and Beijing Changjiu Logistics talked about the latest developments for vehicle and parts shipments on the China Railway Express (CR Express) between China and Europe.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

At a press conference in early January, Jorg Shreiberg, AEB chairman and director of MazdaMotor Rus, said there was no clarity about levels of taxation in the industry, including proposed increases to the utilisation fee and excise rates. . For example, on the route between Moscow and St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk, says Abramov.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

Garvin’s eight dimensions can be summarized as follows: Performance : Performance refers to a product’s primary operating characteristics. The item will be used until it is no longer economical to operate it. Quality metrics is one example of information that can be provided to FDA in advance of an inspection.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Quality affects many different parts of the business, so it is critical to establish a comprehensive metric that provides visibility into the most important areas of operations. These five key metrics provide an executive with critical insight into operational and financial performance of your supplier. 1: Risk Criteria Evaluation.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

For example, saying you want to improve relationships with your key stakeholders might be a worthy objective. Are you using voice of the customer (VoC) techniques to improve operations and customer service? Evidence may be just as useful in situations like this. However, without the why? Are your IT systems state-of-the-art?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

The thing that’s fun about meeting folks in a bar is, they will normally be a lot more open and frank than in a conference room with 500 other people. Fast forward to this past December, 2014. That’s where all the business deals get made, usually over a drink. (I I wish I’d figured that out a long time ago).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The result is usually a supply chain roadmap that is more functional than operational , and aligned to getting quick wins and plucking low hanging fruit. Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. It would have changed warehouse operations to create an agile value-added services organization.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Many of our shipper customers have asked us for content related to better warehouse or distribution operations. This is a sign of poor warehouse operations management. All other members of the warehouse operation team must ask this one person where everything is. This is a waste of time and efficiency.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

In WannaCry’s case, hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Windows XP — an operating system still in wide use today, even though it was originally released in 2001 and Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2014. How many companies still manage their transportation operations like yesterday’s Giant Eagle? Total miles down 7.7

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As reported by The Guardian : The items included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols, which were flown in and out of the UK between January 2014 and June 2015. But that’s exactly what we do to manage our global trade operations. For example, CEOs and CFOs are very focused on growth these days.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. FedEx, which was the hypothetical example I used in my post (based on an excerpt from the novel CyberStorm ), was also affected by the cyberattack, although it didn’t affect operations.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

The Lean Supply Chain is a system of interconnected and interdependent partners that operate in unison to accomplish supply chain objectives. When you create your Sales, Inventory, Operations and Production Plan (SIOP) monthly, or more frequently, invite your top Suppliers and Customers to the SIOP meeting. Risk Management.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

In a further example of Android-based ‘micro-applications’, another customer’s requirement for vehicle data capture had outgrown the capabilities of a simple yard scanner, and so was supplemented by paper-based data capture, recorded on a batch basis. The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Not so monolithic any more.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

The biggest parts supplier operating in Turkey is Bosch, with revenue of $901m in 2016, largely derived from locally produced brake systems, according to figures published by the country’s investment agency. billion in 2014. Turkey’s parts exports are also buoyant. Parts worth $1.4 billion left the country in 2018, up from $1.2

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Management of the other railroads are looking over their shoulders at CSX, which has delighted Wall Street by lowering its operating ratio at the expense of service cutbacks, closed rail yards and the shedding of thousands of employees. That slashed trucking productivity by as much as 4.5%, according to some estimates.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I was wrong, for example, about obstructive sleep apnea becoming the new debate in trucking; the debate ended before it really started after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Federal Railroad Administration withdrew their proposed rule to have rail workers and commercial motor vehicle drivers tested for obstructive sleep apnea.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Logistics is no more operations only or a cost factor. I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. My cofounder and I spent a lot of time in their warehouse and hub, went out for deliveries with a driver, and understood exactly day-to-day operations. It is commerce. It is a revenue factor now.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Indeed, digitalisation is now a buzzword in supply chain circles, as logistics innovators look for ways to improve operating platforms. Last year, the malicious NotPetya virus infiltrated the operating systems of shipping icons Fed-Ex and Maersk after an accounting software upgrade, costing AP Moller-Maersk an estimated $300m.

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