Supply Chains Rock
AUGUST 31, 2012
Logisticians are dazzling masterminds who use ingenuity to transport cumbersome supplies across vast distances and over some of the worlds most challenging terrain. These transportation experts used manpower and pure mechanical force to get things where they needed to be. Friday, August 31, 2012. Winfield Scott: A Native Logistician.
Kinaxis
APRIL 15, 2016
Sure, 3D printers might be able to print space habitats on Mars, but they can’t print everything and there will always be a need to transport an item(s) from one destination to another. Even with 3D printers popping up everywhere, changing the way companies rely on the supply chain, there will always be limitations.
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Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the There was a surge in M&A activity, and a focus on building global supply chains. Each is very promising.
Kinaxis
OCTOBER 16, 2015
According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. For example, in 2013, the organization provided Syrian refugees with in-kind transportation of 394 metric tons of food and supplies. Of those 60 million people, 19.5
Talking Logistics
APRIL 15, 2015
Cuba was ranked 152 out of 160 countries with an LPI Score of 2.18, beating only Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan, and a handful of other poorly-developed countries. speed, simplicity and predictability of formalities) by border control agencies, including customs; Quality of trade and transport related infrastructure (e.g.,
MIT Supply Chain
JANUARY 30, 2014
The US military is doing the same thing with its Rapid Equipment Fielding expeditionary lab in Afghanistan that can quickly create or prototype products close to the point of need. The likely outcome is less long distance shipping of finished products and a shift towards transporting the base stock materials used by 3D printers.
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
If it’s not one thing, it’s another…that keeps transportation infrastructure funding down the priority list for Congress. A few years ago, it was the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For related commentary, see my post from February 2014, Enough Talk: Time to Fix Transportation Infrastructure Funding ).
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