Quotes About Logistics

Time is money in the shipping business.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some of the timeline and logistics of my life in a way that made sense to others.

If you own a toll road, you don't care how many passengers are in each car or what kind of car it is. You just want as many cars to move down the road as possible, and you make damn certain they pay their tolls, okay?

Packing is my pet hate.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

roaring, on a hot, sunny day. But if any expressed surprise at the extent of preparation, Mel Bakersfeld would remind them that removing snow from the airport's operating area was equal to clearing seven hundred miles of highway. Like the Snow Desk

The Americans of 1801 had more gadgets, better weapons, a superior knowledge of geography, and other advantages over the ancients, but they could not move goods or themselves or information by land or water any faster than had the Greeks and Romans.

up was the necessary supply chain in case he had to leave Bohemia

But large inventories are expensive because they have to be transported, stored, and tracked.

Lean production solves the problem of stockouts with a technique called pull.

The logistics of the operation would have boggled most minds: the American contingent alone called for 6.6 million sets of rations, five thousand crated airplanes, five thousand carrier pigeons and accompanying pigeoneers, and a somewhat unambitious 144,000 condoms, fewer than two each.

The logistical challenges of holding such a high-profile and market-sensitive event on live television were daunting,

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

Being a producer is tough. They have to go through so much - dates, money, and release. It's quite crazy.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.