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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. As an example, let’s say that as a part of its customer service promise, your company guarantees its customers that they will receive their orders within 24 hours. Why does the C-suite want the three pillars aligned?

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The 7 Principles of Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design

Logistics Bureau

For example: Why will it exist? That’s exactly what will happen if, for example, you underestimate the quantities of products your warehouse must comfortably hold. You will need to make sure you calculate, for example, how many intake doors will be optimal for your volumes of incoming goods. What market does it serve?

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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two

Logistics in War

Editor’s note – this article continues with the experiences of the then Commanding Officer, 10th Force Support Battalion (10 FSB), deploying to East Timor (now Timor Leste) as part of the INTERFET operation. . Of course we expect our people to be flexible, to ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’, and they did this magnificently.