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Do you know where your truck fleet is right now? No? You should.

GPS technology, such as the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system, can not only pinpoint any vehicle’s exact location, it can also transfer a wealth of detailed information about each vehicle.

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Road Transportation Management using GIS – vehicle routing and tracking

Roads are main arteries of modern society’s infrastructure, contributing heavily to the distribution of goods and persons. GIS provides many helpful applications for ensuring a smooth flow, by aiding design, routing, traffic control and real-time navigation.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Not all risk is risk
How to define, understand and describe risk
I had planned to post this yesterday, when I was taken by surprise by the most severe supply chain a[...]
Managing risk together
Purchasing theory... I have to admit it's not one of my particular strongholds, but several of my re[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk and resilience in maritime logistics
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain and today's paper sets out a framework for [...]
Book Review: Transportation Security
Instead of Transportation Systems Security, which I reviewed in an earlier post, I should have settl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
from HERE and THERE
Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
The other day I got an email from Jan Bertrand, a Master student at the University of Technology Ham[...]
Call for papers – MITIP 2009
The factory of the future is calling for a shift in strategic vision.  Already, many operations are [...]