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Point merge – the latest in aviation logistics

I’ve been travelling this week, which is why there haven’t been any posts for a while, and on my trip I experienced first hand the latest innovation in aviation logistics: Point Merge. Effectively, this new system is nothing more than Just-In-Time in practice. Why does this make flying better?

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A-maze-ing discoveries

After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am fascinated by the Theory of Constraints and I intend to find out more about it.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
It is not often that I come across papers with a holistic view of the supply chain as a living and d[...]
Call for Papers: Global Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain risk seems to be a topic making the rounds in the academic journals these days, and tod[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Procurement Risk
"Do yo like living dangerously? Then you should read this book. It exposes you to over seventy types[...]
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Transport infrastructure resilience
Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastruc[...]
Global Risk Reports
While waiting for the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report for 2009, the continuation of the Glob[...]
from HERE and THERE
Economists versus Technocrats - who wins?
In the current financial downturn, much pressure has been on the government (here in Norway, and I b[...]
Food commodity supply chains at risk?
Have the prices gone up at your local supermarket recently? Maybe your favorite chocolate is suddenl[...]