Supply Chain View

Now is clearly the time for reflection on the logistics operations during the response to the Haiti earthquake in January this year (see my posts on articles by Mike Whiting and Maggie Heraty). Dr. Paul S. Auerbach is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. A few [...]

More interesting stuff in Focus (shock, horror!) In the May 2010 edition Maggie Heraty describes what she saw and experienced while on mission with RedR. Maggie arrived in Haiti just over three weeks after the earthquake to identify training needs for NGO staff in the immediate disaster response phase, and longer term looking at recovery [...]

Mike Whiting has written an excellent article on the emergency response to January’s Haiti earthquake in the April 2010 edition of Logistics and Transport Focus. My copy of Focus often languishes in the in-tray for a couple of weeks before I even get the plastic wrap off, but I’d urge all CILT members to read [...]

This came round on a Current Awareness Bulletin from CILT but the link was mangled – eventually I found the right site. This is pleasingly low-tech: a google map with customised icons linked to some database info about each port or rail freight terminal. This is the multimodal map‘s own website. This is what it [...]

Last week I was talking to a colleague who had been involved in a pre-sales pitch with an RFID technology partner. He had come out of the presentation feeling very frustrated – he hadn’t felt he had learned any more about RFID than the very basic stuff he already knew, and certainly not enough to [...]