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

Logistics in War

This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based. Australian Army unit load ammunition containers in a warehouse ready for delivery to artillery soldiers for the safe transport and storage of projectiles in the field.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks.

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Automation: Paving the way for progress

Automotive Logistics

“In particular, the concept of ‘Industry 4.0’, which encompasses the trend of integrated automation and data exchange within manufacturing environments, seems to be transforming the way that [manufacturing] customers think about production,” says Mark Longacre, applications engineering manager at AGV provider, JBT Corporation.