Preparing Logistics Managers to Manage Modern Military Supply Chains

Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach

Understanding Retail Supply Chains to Enable ‘greener’ Logistics

Introduction Over the past 30 years, there have been many urban freight surveys undertaken by local authorities across the UK, in an attempt to understand freight issues at the local level (Allen et al., 2008). Many of these focused on the supply chains delivering ‘core’ goods to retailers whilst some made an attempt to go further and quantify the impacts of service vehicle activity to gain a m...

Logistics and Supply Chains in Agriculture and Food

During the recent two decades, goods flow has been tremendously increased, even though the amount of goods remains at the steady state. Increased variety of goods, the just-in-time delivery system, low load rate, specialization and centralization of production systems, globalization of marketing and seasonal variations are among the main challenges of logistics system which may lead to the nece...

Preparing families and institutions to manage anaphylaxis

Most (57-78%) of the recorded anaphylactic reactions in children occur at home and, second, in school or during school activities (5-22%). Children with food allergy are at the highest risk for death, especially if they also suffer from asthma, as most of the deaths attributed to anaphylaxis are due to severe unresponsive bronchospasm. There is a need of education of families and schools on how...

Logistics and the Competitiveness of Canadian Supply Chains

In 2009, Canada ranked ninth among OECD countries with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $46,243,1 a measurement generally used to compare societies’ standards of living. That same year, our main trading partner, the United States, ranked third with a per capita GDP of $56,109—21.3% higher than the figure for Canada. It is generally acknowledged that an increase in a country’s standa...