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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. Q: Conventional wisdom maintains that educators are training today’s students for jobs and challenges we haven’t yet imagined.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

As the war rages on in Ukraine, more and more companies and countries are looking at ways they can help with massive humanitarian aid. I have no choice but to pay it to meet my target crop yields.” According to Richard Guebert, from the Illinois Farm Bureau, the cost of fertilizer is surging.

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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. To be an aid official in a war zone takes diplomacy and grit.