CENTER FOR
LOGISTICS, TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION 
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January  2013

YOU'RE INVITED - CLTT INDUSTRY SUMMIT-Spring 2013
Come join us and network at the CLTT Industry Advisory Council Summit on March 1, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Long Beach. The Summit will be held at the Hardy Hall - Auditorium.

Congressman  Steven Palazzo

CLTT-IAC Guest Speaker

Congressman Palazzo

 We will have the great pleasure to have a special guest speaker Congressman Palazzo. We will also present a report on the accomplishments and happenings of the Center for Logistics, Trade and Transportation (CLTT) at Southern Miss and engage with you in a conversation to gather your ideas about future activities of the CLTT to meet your needs and opportunites of the gulf region.

Your attendance and engagement in this Industry Summit is very important as we continue to build and shape the CLTT to support your organizations and the Gulf Region opportunities and needs.

Working lunch will be served (seating is limited). This event is FREE of charge.

 

 

I look forward to seeing you in Long Beach!

Tulio Sulbaran, Ph. D.
Director, Center for Logistics, Trade and Transportation  


TOP US MILITARY LOGISTICIANS VISIT THE BAGRAM RETROSORT YARD
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A retrosort yard is a vital facility in the reduction of the amount of excess materiel in Afghanistan. The BAF RSY operates along with two other retrograde sort yards in Afghanistan under the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Michelle Letcher. According to Letcher, since taking over the facility, the 18th CSSB and 427th BSB soldiers have increased production by 58 percent

TENN-TOM WATERWAY PILOT PROJECT
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The Port of Mobile and Port Itawamba are seeking a service provider to initiate a container on barge service between Fulton, MS and Mobile, AL along the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway. The Ports, along with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, are interested in the long term sustainability and capacity of a marine transportation service on the M-65 Marine Highway Corridor. A $1.7M Marine Highway Grant awarded to Port Itawamba in September 2010 by the Maritime Administration is intended to help overcome impediments to capitalizing equipment needed to initiate the service and is not intended to serve as an operating subsidy  

 

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BULLWHIP EFFECT IN SUPPLY CHAIN
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In market place, product demand is not always constant; it largely varies due to change of customers' behavior and several other factors including the local and global economy, contemporary fashion, duration of peak sale season, weather and so on. Consequently, the demand fluctuates at the retail store, gradually propagate towards the suppliers, and then, at the manufacturer. The effect of demand variability that occurs at the customer level grows sharply over the wholesaler, and dramatically over the distributor and finally peaks at manufacturer facility. Since demand variability initiates from downstream at the customer level, gradually reach to upstream at the manufacturer level, resemble the phenomenon of a bullwhip, called the bullwhip effect. Figure 1 shows how small changes in the customer demand form a bullwhip effect in supply chain. Although bullwhip effect is perceived as an unavoidable effect of demand variation, there are substantial studies and efforts initiated by the researchers and companies to find the root cause of the demand variation, and initiative to minimize the ripple effect.

 

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SPOTLIGHT 
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Contact Person:
     Brant Monaghan
     Marketing and Communications Manager
     [email protected]

CLTT INDUSTRY SUMMIT

Friday, March 1st, 2013
10 a.m. - 2p.m.
University of Southern Mississippi
Long Beach Campus 

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Learn more about the CLTT Industry Summit 

-Ayn Rand

CONTACT US
Dr. Tulio Sulbaran, Director
[email protected]
601.266.6419
Fax: 601.266.5717
118 College Drive #5138
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-000