Impacts on Logistics
Rapid Response, Quality and Security

Program Overview

Join us at the 2004 Logistics Executive Education Series when the University of Alaska Anchorage and partners present a timely program on the management of logistics in an environment requiring rapid global response under ever-increasing concerns of national security.

Whether your organization operates in the global market or focuses on a regional/local market, you know that a principle driver of your competitive ability today is the effectiveness of your supply chain.  Most organizations have significantly reduced logistics cost while increasing the value delivered to their customers by applying the basic principles of logistics and supply chain management widely espoused over the past decade.  Brining focus to logistics within their organizations as one of the basic contributors to customer value, and the one most often found in the customer facing position, has repeatedly been recognized as a primary contributor to competitiveness and success.  

One of the most complex issues in SCM and logistics has been and continues to be supply chain visibility.  We all know from experience that the better the information available to us the tighter we can plan and the higher the value delivered to our customers will become.  The impediments to better supply chain visibility are numerous, but will be overcome as business and government continue to drive for increased customer value in delivered products and services.

This year with the news from both Wal-Mart and DoD that RFID will be a required technology in their individual supply chains in the next several years, it is evident that significant new steps toward true supply chain visibility are about to be made.  Regardless of your current involvement with either of these giants, their direction will be hard to ignore.

Rapid response is highly related to visibility of the supply chain.  Visibility, quality and increased security in the logistics chain are closely related issues.  The technology and information systems solutions for visibility may enable increased quality and security monitoring of our product movements.  RFID and related technologies will enable visibility and result in increased customer value.