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Five Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle on the Road

Women in Trucking

Here are five tips to help drivers maintain a healthy lifestyle on the road: 1. Stretch and exercise. Strengthen weak muscles supporting the spine with moderate daily exercise, such as a brisk walk, biking and weightlifting. Over time, this can lead to various health problems, including weight gain, back pain and lethargy.

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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. For a long war, a larger and more costly logistic system needs to be built up, a training system maintained while combat is underway and sufficient trained personnel held in reserve to allow rotations into theatre.’.

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6 Quick Tips for Successful Logistics Outsourcing

Logistics Bureau

In this short article, I’ll redress the balance a little by highlighting a few practical guidelines which, if adhered to, will increase the chances of a successful logistics outsourcing alliance. An extensive process mapping exercise, prior to supplier selection, should help to prevent this issue. Lets’ Raise a Half-full Glass.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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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. For a long war, a larger and more costly logistic system needs to be built up, a training system maintained while combat is underway and sufficient trained personnel held in reserve to allow rotations into theatre.’.

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Underwriting preparedness – considering the logistics of the future preparedness system

Logistics in War

Behind every major warfighting exercise, such as the recent Exercise Talisman Sabre or the successive multinational exercises underway in Europe , the logistics system is tested. Furthermore, because of its routine nature the costs of maintaining preparedness can be more easily determined than other models.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

In this article, we’ll explain why that should be and how your company can avoid S&OP problems by investing correctly in the people and their interrelationships , without which it’s simply impossible to tie the moving parts of S&OP together. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully?