by Emily Finney | Jan 18, 2011 | ATN, CMER News, CMER News Staff, CMER Training, Media Release
Huntsville, Ala., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 — UAHuntsville has been chosen as the venue for a Model Based Enterprise (MBE) Supplier Education and Training Summit on February 22, 2011 in Huntsville, AL. This MBE Summit is being organized by the National Institute of... by Karen | Nov 23, 2010 | ATN Research, Nicholas Loyd, Publication
Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma are two of the most prominent improvement philosophies available to organizations today. This article investigated how these two philosophies can be used cohesively as an improvement strategy. A comparison was performed relative to the... by Karen | Oct 1, 2010 | Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Jeff Thompson, Presentation, Presented, Transportation Research Board Annual Conference
The use of national freight data at the local level is challenging due to the high level of aggregation and because freight data is proprietary. Many national freight databases aggregate information to the individual states or major communities. Most methods of... by Karen | Sep 1, 2010 | Center & Office Research, Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Lauren Jennings Neppel, Lisa S. Blanchard, Presentation, Presented, Tools of the Trade Conference
In smaller urban areas, freight transportation is often not explicitly modeled, but is included implicitly as a percentage of non-home-based trips, which has nothing to do with the actual behavior of freight. This incorporation has the potential to develop future... by Emily Finney | Aug 25, 2010 | Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Lynsey Delane, Strategic Management Services
The challenge in this effort was to gain an understanding of Alabama’s Aerospace Industry workforce expectations and how they may evolve over the next decade. This aerospace company perspective will provide the aerospace industry a better understanding of itself as... by Emily Finney | Aug 25, 2010 | CMOST, Presentation, Supply Chain Management
DLA is streamlining its entire logistics pipeline. Balanced Scorecard, a widely used, very structured commercial approach where senior executives determine what direction, specific initiatives, and funding are needed to be successful. Using the scorecard, DLA...