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The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time

Operations and Supply Chain Management

April 23, 2015. Given my focus on this topic here in 2015, I thought it would be appropriate to repost that list, which I think is a good one. 9: 3M’s Transportation Load Control Center: In 1982, 3M, like every other company, had to leave transportation decisions to each plant and distribution center.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

On the one side there is the medical aspect, which calls for various specialised logistics approaches , and on the other, the hotel/catering aspect. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure.