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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Some suppliers of demand management software can also provide excellent forecast benchmarking for selected industries.

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Most Popular Blog Posts of 2012

The Logistics of Logistics

Five Lessons from Military Logistics. Military folks excel in logistics because they focus on the five areas below and we would all be wise to do the same. Regardless of which branch of the military or specific job responsibilities, the military instills core values into every soldier. Strategic view of shipping.

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Resilience in Defence: Analysis of the Defence Command Paper

Proxima

The UK military has already made steps to improve resilience – for example, the RAF adoption of ‘Agile Combat Employment’, borrowing tactics developed by the US and continually practised by Sweden. Excellence in contract and supplier management will be vital in maintaining the level of output that we need.

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AI And Supply Chain: Level Setting

Elementum

NYU Business guru Scott Galloway recently published an excellent blog-entry on AI , and discussed how we’ve just passed through a “golden decade” — with another likely to come. Executional AI’s can be used to pick-pack-and-ship from the warehouse. Still, they continue to improve, and no doubt about it, they are proliferating!

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AI And Supply Chain: Level Setting

Elementum

NYU Business guru Scott Galloway recently published an excellent blog-entry on AI , and discussed how we’ve just passed through a “golden decade” — with another likely to come. Executional AI’s can be used to pick-pack-and-ship from the warehouse. Still, they continue to improve, and no doubt about it, they are proliferating!

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Technology and the Changing Nature of Logistics

Enterra Insights

It spans the purchase of raw materials to the final delivery of the merchandise to the customer, including the intermediate processing of the goods. “ According to Benjamin Gordon Cambridge Capital, ‘In the military, successful logistics has proven the difference between winning and losing.’ ”[1].

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

Department of State when sending military weapon components abroad, but the executives tried to cover up the ordeal. According to ICE, from 2003 to 2009, Sabre falsified shipping documents, used false bottoms on crates and lied on business records. All too often, companies do not put enough value on trade compliance.