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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within

Logistics in War

It is the role of the military logistician to govern the network of this lifeblood, for it determines how a force deploys, moves, and changes its scale and scope of tasks. This was not only because of a lack of munitions, but military staples. Supply chains move and flex where demand exists.

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

Logistics in War

2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3]. This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based.

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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. Each year, Penske has provided a rental truck to help transport the care packages.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. Hoarding will occur.

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GPS is Vital for Supply Chains. What If It Goes Down?

Talking Logistics

GPS depends on satellites, which can be damaged by electromagnetic storms or military attack. She cites several examples, both intentional and. “GPS is vital to Americans, but hacking it has never been easier,” writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal. Read more GPS is Vital for Supply Chains.

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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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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. Rising oil prices will also have a cascading impact on supply chains in areas such as higher line-haul trucking rates and other transportation costs.