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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. In 2017, a billion-dollar extension contract worth $1 billion and covering 30 years was signed between Boeing and Dassault. This incident might be because of oversights in documentation and procedures at Boeing’s Renton factory in Washington.

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How Changing Climate Conditions Affect Project Cargo Transportation and What to Do About It

MTS Logistics

But, keep in mind it is documented that most of our infrastructure was built using the temperature records from the mid-20th century. In 2017, a study assessed extreme climate impacts on infrastructure in Europe. In the future, DOT may require additional route surveys and bridge studies for weight distribution.

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Online Learning is Growing Exponentially—And it’s Here to Stay

Logistics Bureau

Even before the arrival of the pandemic, the global e-learning market was expanding at an astonishing rate, with a 2019 study estimating that it would reach $336.98 The study showed that upwards of 30 percent of American students enrolled in at least one online course in 2018. Campus Study or Online Learning?

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How RPA is Transforming Transportation and Logistics

RPA Labs

Document Automation – Whether a company is a domestic freight broker, an international freight forwarder, an ocean carrier or a trucking fleet, they probably rely on employees to do all the data entry, migration and document indexing manually. Transportation Management with RPA.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. We hope you enjoy this salute to the best of 2018, and we look forward to even more innovations in 2019. Printer-friendly version.

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Inauguration of a Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition: a ray of hope for…

World Food Programme Logistics

As a Regional Center for West and Central Africa, the Center primary objective will be to document, promote and share to both regional and national levels the good practices of eradication of hunger and malnutrition learned from Cote d’Ivoire and other countries of the region. Well, now what ?

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

8] Echoing other strategic documentation of the time, the DER ‘Industry Policy Sub-Review team’ recommended that the HQ ADF reconsider its strategic logistics planning capability, and for national mobilisation to be considered coherently as a critical logistics issue. 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R., 1] Beaumont, D.,