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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Logistics & Supply Chain: Hurricane Florence

Transporeon

According to FreightWaves , “A storm of this magnitude is likely to cause localized diesel supply and price disruptions, as extreme weather impacts the downstream distribution of refined products to fuel stations and truck stops.”. Caution should be exercised. Rails will need to be inspected before trains can operate over them again.

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Logistics & Supply Chain: Hurricane Florence

Transporeon

According to FreightWaves , “A storm of this magnitude is likely to cause localized diesel supply and price disruptions, as extreme weather impacts the downstream distribution of refined products to fuel stations and truck stops.”. Caution should be exercised. Rails will need to be inspected before trains can operate over them again.

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How to Get Your Forklift License: The Ultimate Guide [New in 2020]

Conger

Because in this post, we’ve put together everything you need to know to get trained, certified, and land your first forklift driving job. Chapter 2: Where to Get Forklift License Training: All Your Options Explained. Chapter 3: Forklift Training Topics: A Sneak Peak at What You’ll Learn in Class. Let’s get started!

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The ‘So What’ of my experiences in East Timor – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part 4

Logistics in War

It was the case for LTCOL Lou Brumfield when he deployed the 1 RAR Battalion Group to South Vietnam in 1965 and for LTCOL David Hurley and the 1 RAR Battalion Group deploying to Somalia in the early 1990s. Training. Fresh rations receipt, bulk break and distribution. Transit area operations. Bulk handling. Cost-capture.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

Training on food safety and quality (here, in Kenya) is a crucial element of school feeding programmes. Further north in Algeria, in the Sahrawi refugee camps, WFP works with partners to relieve short-term hunger by distributing a mid-morning snack in schools and kindergartens. African youth has the potential and agency to succeed.

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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two

Logistics in War

Combat units particularly had fallen into a very austere mindset exacerbated by short exercises where soldiers and unit-level Q staff were able to be self-sufficient for the duration. This would not be like a month-long exercise in the local training area. Her response, relayed to me through her sub-unit commander was gold.