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The Definition of Transparency

Blue Grace Logistics

As companies mature and the market changes, our understanding of crucial operating components of any industry has also grown. Many, if not all, companies are facing increasing pressure from governments, consumers, non-profit / activist groups, and stakeholders to provide more information about their supply chain.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

The ability to operate in emerging domains such as ‘space’ and ‘cyber’, act in the ‘grey zone’, or investments in new technologies from hypersonic weaponry to automation and AI are seen as offsets to potential adversaries. The unit load ammunition containers (ULAC) are an essential support component of the Australian Army?

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ESG Journey with CMC Sustainability Report

Logistics Business Magazine

This report demonstrates that it’s possible for a packaging company to make a positive difference to the world both through its own operations and on behalf of customers.” ” “Social and environmental responsibility has definitively become a decisive part of the Group’s decision-making processes and strategic choices.

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Freeports and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

So what is a free port and why is the government once again backing them, given that history? This means that businesses operating inside designated areas in and around the port may manufacture goods using these imports, before exporting them again without paying the tariffs, while also enjoying the benefit from simplified customs procedures.

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How the contagion of conflict in the Sahel could spread across West Africa

World Food Programme Logistics

This is definitely a risk we should be concerned about,” says Areva Paronjana, a Regional Security Information Analyst for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in West Africa. in the northern parts of these coastal states, which opens up the possibility of expansion by these groups. albeit to a lesser degree?—?in

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Is It Time to Move Beyond the Traditional Approach to IBP?

Logistics Viewpoints

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) for short term horizon, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon.

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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two

Logistics in War

National support gives the self-evident notion that the national support base is intrinsic to the conduct of military operations coherency. A national support concept was created in the 1990s to show how the ADF and Defence writ large would, in theory, see the national support base better integrated into the conduct of military operations.