Quotes About Logistics

Each job I do is a bit of a logistical nightmare because of the kids, so I always feel like I need a good rest afterwards.

A 30-day shoot is a nightmare.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a scale that beggared description: fifty-two thousand airplanes, twenty-three thousand tanks, forty thousand artillery guns in the first six months of 1943 alone, he reported. American shipyards were launching "almost five ships a day.

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

You have to think about each day's landscape—both workdays and days off—and where there might be spots of usable time. You become a general, surveying the battlefield. What can move? What can't? What logistical problems must be solved as you march through your hours?

Of the food that Magellan took on at Seville, nearly four-fifths consisted of just two items, wine and hardtack.

He cautiously committed only six seamen to a landing party charged with fetching supplies

During those brief days in the Canaries, Magellan busied himself with the final provisioning of his fleet.

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.

Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.

If you go to Japan, even at the pokiest little station, every single train is arrives and leaves on time - not to a couple of minutes, within 30 seconds. In Canada, they have constant problems with massive avalanches and bear attacks on the line, but all these problems are solved immediately.

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

In short, the period following the end of World War I was not just marked by the conclusion of the war to end all wars, but also by a profound shift in the logistics of the world

At a meeting early in his tenure, Cook was told of a problem with one of Apple's Chinese suppliers. "This is really bad," he said. "Someone should be in China driving this.

In 1938, the Army Air Corps had 1,773 planes and trained 500 pilots. In 1942, it built 47,000 new planes and trained 30,000 pilots. By the following year, planes were being churned out at a rate of 8,000 a month.

In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable.

En su libro Estrategia moderna (Modern Strategy) apuntó diecisiete factores a tener en cuenta: la gente, la sociedad, la cultura, la política, la ética, la economía y la logística, la organización, la administración, la información y la inteligencia, la teoría estratégica y la doctrina, la tecnología, la operatividad, el mando, la geografía, la fricción / el azar / la incertidumbre, el adversario y el tiempo.

La estrategia decide dónde actuar; la logística traslada las tropas hasta ese punto; la táctica general dedide el modo de ejecutar la acción y el uso de las tropas».[7]

Von Moltke's most radical innovation as a commander, which went against the textbooks of the time, was to divide his army so that both parts could be kept supplied until they would combine for the battle ("march divided; strike united").