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Highlights from the BGSA Conference with Ben Gordon

The Logistics of Logistics

Ben Gordon and Joe Lynch discuss highlights from the BGSA Conference , an annual event designed to bring together top industry leaders from all segments of the supply chain and provides an intimate and candid setting where CEOs and leaders can privately network and explore ideas with their peers.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

At Georgia Southern, we dispel this by illustrating the dynamic nature and variety of daily activities a supply chain manager encounters. Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences.

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From civil engineering to civil conflict: Portrait of an aid boss

World Food Programme Logistics

World Food Programme (WFP) Director of Supply Chain Jakob Kern reflects on the challenges and triumphs of working in the world’s most heated crises A civil engineer, Jakob Kern has been on humanitarian assignments in Eritrea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Italy and Syria. As the current Director of Supply Chain?—?a