Industry Day: learning from industry first hand.Ever wonder how commercial firms manage to get their goods into customer's hands--just in time? MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) employees receive continual insights into commercial processes such as product distribution through Industry Day sessions. We invite executives from commercial firms that work with us to come in and talk about their organizations' processes and challenges. Monthly sessions are held at the MTMC Operations Center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. , Fort Eustis Fort Eustis is a United States Army facility located in Newport News, Virginia. The post is the home to the Army Transportation Corps, and also home to the U.S. Army Aviation Logistics School. , Va., and MTMC Headquarters Alexandria. We link the sessions by video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. to allow employees at either location to attend. Recent visitors for our September session came from J.B. Hunt Transport Services The collective functions of layers 1 through 4 of the OSI model. , of Lowell, Ark. The firm's executives talked about distribution techniques used by the company to move products such as cereals and jeans. They suggested that a number of their concepts might assist the movement of Department of Defense cargoes. The trucking firm's presentation included information on its new in-transit tracking technology known as Terion. The company is one of the first in the nation with the technology, which provides in-transit visibility The ability to track the identity, status, and location of Department of Defense units, and non-unit cargo (excluding bulk petroleum, oil, and lubricants) and passengers; patients; and personal property from origin to consignee or destination across the range of military operations. to its trailers, said Dave Will, vice president sales national accounting. "The services the company provides dictate TO DICTATE. To pronounce word for word what is destined to be at the same time written by another. Merlin Rep. mot Suggestion, p. 5 00; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 5, n. 410. the content of the presentation," said Richard Parker Richard Parker may refer to: People
J.B. Hunt was invited, said Parker, because of its reliability as a MTMC contractor. J.B. Hunt, like all MTMC carriers, is qualified to carry military cargoes through the Freight Carrier Registration Program. The Industry Day sessions are well received by staff, said Brad Bernard, a lead traffic management specialist with the Domestic Business Services Section. "The information can help us better support our warfighters," said Bernard. Maureen Carlo, lead traffic management specialist for carrier performance, with Global Distribution Domestic, agrees. "Industry Day provides a great opportunity for partnering," said Carlo. "The various industries show us a variety of the opportunities we have for transporting Department of Defense cargo." The program is designed to share information in both directions. It started at MTMC Headquarters Alexandria in 2000. It was expanded to the Operations Center early this year. "This program provides us with valuable opportunities to gain insight into commercial best practices," said Capt. Ed Horres, director of Global Distribution. Future Industry Day sessions at the Operations Center, said Parker, will include trucking, maritime and rail firms. |
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