With its huge distribution centres, Amazon.com is as much a logistics firm as a dotcom.
As part of my Community College to Career tour, I visited Coyote Logistics, a third-party logistics company.
For other types of commercial property it might mean something different: a great logistics centre with a long lease, for instance, might be near a motorway and nothing much else.
Flt Lt Capps was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 2001 as a logistics officer and worked on a variety of Royal Air Force stations, the MoD said.
Logistics play a part, according to Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas, the number two at the commission.
The idea is appealing, but the politics and logistics of a credible guarantee are daunting.
Troops from a logistics convoy had been returning to a base, according to the Polish Defense Ministry.
He was coordinating logistics with a soon-to-be-released Televerde employee and a guard overheard.
Additionally, Tesoro Logistics has a trailing 12-month return on equity (ROE) of 43.3%, almost four times the peer group average of 11.1%.
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The supply-chain track, in particular, has generated enormous interest in the business community, where logistics has a growing influence on the bottom line.
Jermaine Jackson told the Australian Associated Press on Wednesday that the singing family was working on the music and logistics for a tour next year.
Politics and logistics make a comprehensive study of Himalayan glaciers difficult, but if those individual glaciers which have been studied recently are representative, then the glaciers are retreating.
One key was logistics: A huge effort had to be made in tracking the patients and making sure they came to the sessions, says University of Pennsylvania psychologist Gregory Brown.
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The logistics for a successful climb are extensive.
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With that potential crisis averted, the USOC will spend the next couple of months focusing on supporting its Winter athletes who are likely to qualify for Sochi and start to work out the logistics of a Winter Games that will be played many miles away.
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So right now the logistics of a new building are not as important as consolidating command and control, giving specific direction to the Department of Homeland Security and to these agencies to make sure that we fulfill the president's commitment to keep America as safe as possible.
Combined with a logistics agent based in Singapore and production facilities in India, they were able to overcome a potential agricultural catastrophe.
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Such a decision negates both the risk of being pick-pocketed and the stresses associated with the logistics of obtaining a favorable currency exchange while adding a measure of comfort to the whirlwind of change presented by a foreign place.
Curtis Greeve and Jerry Davis have more than 25 years of experience in reverse logistics and recently wrote a book to help small business owners improve their logistics processes, including customer returns.
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Global distribution can be economically fulfilled by opening a Web site and a logistics company.
The students work for a warehouse run by Exel, a logistics company hired by Hershey.
Direct Web buying, often aided by a logistics partner, allows many goods producers to sell direct.
Expeditors' closest U.S. competitor is Houston's Eagle Global Logistics, with a 10% return on capital.
The car was bought by Rick Champagne, a logistics company owner from Phoenix, Arizona.
Dragging a bellows-powered organ behind an advancing army was, to say the least, a logistics problem.
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