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The Logistics of Logistics
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Kevin joined Ryder in October 2015 and led Ryder’s outsourced transportation procurement activity as senior director. In addition, Ryder manages nearly 260,000 commercial vehicles and operates approximately 300 warehouses encompassing more than 95 million square feet.
ToolsGroup
JUNE 15, 2021
The Top Supply Chain Projects (formerly known as SDCE 100) spotlights successful and innovative transformation projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across a range of supply chain functions. Planner productivity significantly improved. About Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Go to www.SDCExec.com.
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Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
In military operations, there is a notion called “the fog of war.” In military circles, professionals try to overcome the fog of war by increasing their situational awareness. Supply chain professionals, like military professionals, often find situational awareness an elusive goal. I like that term. Close this gap.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. In the 1940s and 1950s, the focus of logistics research was on how to use mechanization (e.g.,
Enterra Insights
AUGUST 2, 2019
Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the 6th century BC, wrote, “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.” He was hired as a purchasing agent and was directed to obtain some procurement training at a local certificate mill.[1]
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 8, 2019
The Pulse rooms are fed by data warehouses which pull together data from 94 different applications that are each being used to run data in different parts of the Flex organization. The idea behind these types of applications is that it moves innovation into not just a concept, but a process. This may not be the case in every company.
6 River Systems
JULY 25, 2019
Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.
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