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World Refugee Day: Cooking up a storm on a WFP-project in Turkey

World Food Programme Logistics

Months ago, she could barely have thought that her training with the Kitchen of Hope livelihoods project would end up going online. It provides chef assistant training to both Syrians under living under temporary protection and Turkish citizens. This has added a lot to my knowledge base,” she says. Of course not.

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The Most Overlooked DC Performance Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, one of our customers at Lucas, Apex Tool Group , experienced a 63% reduction in picking errors, but moreover, shared that employees “loved the system,” and said, “you rarely implement a new system and have users tell you ‘it’s made my life so much easier.‘ This is true whether you’re a minimum wage worker or a CEO.

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Cart Before the Horse: Digital Freight Matching, A.I. and Machine Learning for Freight

Parade

Trucking is such a fragmented industry that there’s no data on specific carriers and drivers to differentiate their levels of service, as a result they’re all grouped together like a commodity and priced the same. However, brokerages must first have a robust knowledge base of data, which includes data on thousands of carrier organizations.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

247 Customs Broker

Lagos-based Andela trains programmers and facilitates their placement with software companies around the world. The state government has also started training its staff to align them with its smart city vision. For instance, staff in the Lagos central business districts (CBDs) had their training session in January 2018.