
Building the Logistics Infrastructure of Tomorrow
By Aiman JoeHanzLength4h 16m
About this audiobook
Logistics is the discipline of moving and storing things so the right thing is in the right place at the right time at the least total cost - and its true product is not transport but certainty. This book opens the infrastructure that makes modern abundance possible: standard containers that made global trade cheap; ports where cranes trade the sea's scale for the land's reach; lanes chosen by cargo temperament and priced against weather; drivers whose legal clock underwrites every promise; warehouses that are valves, not closets, timed against demand the forecast can only approximate; scans and standards that make a planetary flow legible; borders cleared by the speed of a story's coherence; and rules that license the freight's mass and speed in public memory.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length4 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Landscape — The Promise and Its Arithmetic
4Chapter 2: The Route — Networks, Modes, and the Choice Between Them
5Chapter 3: The Port — The Container and the Terminal That Made Trade Cheap
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6Chapter 4: The Road — Trucking and the Last Mile
7Chapter 5: The Warehouse — The Fulfillment Machine
8Chapter 6: The Data — Visibility and the Digital Twin
9Chapter 7: The Forecast — Demand Weather and the Inventory Positioned Against It
10Chapter 8: The Customs — The Border's Law and the Cargo's Paperwork
11Chapter 9: The Rules — Safety, Security, and the Working Law
12Chapter 10: The Long Run — Resilience, Sustainability, and the Future Chain
13A Last Word
14Copyright
15About the Author
16About this Series
17Connect