Archive for 'Logistics' Category
Fellows in the air - Brown & Yellow
17 June 2008The headline read: UPS plans air deal with DHL in US, the byline of which is,
UPS plans up to 10-year air deal with DHL within the US, expects $1B in added annual sales
Only, I don’t think that it is UPS’s plan - It sounds more like DHL going around with a bowl in hand. That’s […]
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Two challenges on your plate…
17 May 2008Or rather on my plate. I want to draw your attention to these two challenges that are floating out there in cyberspace - prize money being offered for your (my) troubles as well if one contributes something of value:
1. The first one is the older of the two - The Netflix Prize, which is a […]
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Outsourcing Reverse Logistics
6 May 2008Outsourcing Reverse Logistics is a recent article posted Modern Materials Handling.com that has an interview with Tim Konrad of GENCO (my former employer) - it’s a niche for GENCO that it has been rather good at exploiting . He notes the following key points concerning reverse logistics as practiced by a 3PL:
Do it in volume
Establish […]
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How IBM makes radical collaboration work?
10 September 2007How IBM makes radical collaboration work is a special report that BusinessWeek has up at its website. Since I work at the site that forms the ground zero of this radical collaborative venture at and through IBM, I am at the vantage of seeing this happen not so much in evaluating how each of these […]
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More DTCI links…
30 August 2007The interest in DTCI (Defense Transportation Coordinator Initiative) related material has been surprising. So, I thought that I’d post a roundup of links about it:
DTCI Program Office
DTCI - the beginnings - What the DoD was trying to achieve through the DTCI?
DTCI incorporates lessons from its pilot program - Outlines some of the reasons why […]
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High level overview of DTCI
29 August 2007If you wanted to know more about DTCI (Defense Transportation Coordinator Initiative), you might want to check out this public link from SDDC - Defense Transportation Coordination Inititative Overview Briefing that provides a high-level summary presentation of the scope of the DTCI contract.
What I’d cue you into are the following slides:
Slide 4 which […]
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DTCI Contract awarded to …
29 August 2007Menlo Worldwide. Menlo Worldwide is the winner of the DTCI contract awarded by the US Dept. of Defence (DoD) for all Continental US (CONUS) logistics. DTCI is a huge contract not only to win (which was the easy part) but it’s going to be a challenging one to execute as well,
Under the contract, which is […]
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