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Penske Helps Celebrate Military Spouses for Their Service on the Home Front

Penske Move Ahead

For more than 35 years, the nation has paused on Military Spouse Appreciation Day, held on the Friday before Mother’s Day, to pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the nation’s military spouses. For many military spouses, the yellow Penske truck has become a symbol of the love and appreciation found inside each care package. “We

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand forecasts are improved with access to downstream data (point of sale, Nielsen retail data, and access to competitor promotion schedules). Other external data, like industry data or economic data, is used for other types of forecasts. forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores. This sounds obvious.

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Sustaining machines – logistics and autonomous systems

Logistics in War

Automation offers military logisticians tremendous advantages and has to be a part of their future. The opportunities for automation in logistics are virtually limitless, only requiring technology and entrepreneurship to deliver a generational change to military technology. Automated and autonomy in logistics.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. For example, the auto industry embraced risk management after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. For example, the auto industry, which lost billions because of the semiconductor chip shortage, had suppliers that could not get the chips they needed for their products.

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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology. This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity.

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Logistics and autonomous systems – the promise of transformed logistics

Logistics in War

Automation offers military logisticians tremendous advantages and has to be a part of their future. It’s a fallacy to think military logistics is only now advancing on an automation. It’s a fallacy to think military logistics is only now advancing on an automation.

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The impact of regional instabilities on the Global Supply Chain and how ERP can help

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Now, the greatest risk they face has shifted to the regional instabilities due to military conflict and the geopolitical and economic uncertainties it has created. For example, aluminum was in short supply during World War II. Out of hardship come opportunities: leverage the possibilities with ERP.