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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. As an example, a heavy equipment manufacturer used SupplyChainPlanning.com to create a collaborative planning app with its dealers.

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When Does a Comment to Investors Become an Illegal "Signal" to Competitors?

10xLogistics

What I found interesting is they were investigating statements made during earnings calls and "investor" conferences where one airline executive might say they are going to practice things such as "disciplined capacity control" or have "expected price increases through disciplined revenue management". Something is going on here.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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Cyber-attacks: not a question of if, but when

Automotive Logistics

As industry becomes ever more connected, the risk of cyber-attacks is getting greater all the time, delegates at this year’s Automotive Logistics Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta were warned. As Walker put it, the ‘attack surface’ is getting bigger all of the time.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. African youth has the potential and agency to succeed.

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Industry View: Interview with EXCHAiNGE 2018 Speaker

Logistics Business Magazine

If managers embrace the idea of giving employees responsibility and decision-making autonomy in their respective areas of expertise – in agile teams, for example – then the parameters can also be defined together. Bohlmann: By eliminating ineffective communication loops, for example. Feedback is a vital part of that.