During the American Civil War (1861 65) he became chairman of the Union Defense Committee to expedite the supply of arms and troops and later served as a War Department commissioner to investigate and alleviate the poor conditions of Federal prisoners in the South.
Pyke and Cohen (1994) developed a supply chain model by considering multiple products, with independent demand and expedited batches, and optimized the total cost of supply chain subjected to the service levels for all products.
Taiwan has committed to donating at least $5 million in aid and 100 tons of relief supplies to Haiti; it expedited search-and-rescue teams to Port-au-Prince soon after the tremors subsided.
This proved unfeasible, because neither the armor or armament firms could supply the necessary materials according to an expedited schedule.
FedEx reported 20% revenue growth vs. the year earlier, underscoring higher freight flows to support the new global economic boom, one marked by a high value cargo experiencing tight supply conditions such as electronics components and systems expedited by air, no longer by sea.
The Arkansas executions were expedited because there's an expiration date on the state's supply of midazolam.
Until 2007, nine-tenths of the country's organ supply came from its tens of thousands of death-row inmates, whose executions have sometimes been expedited for the purpose of harvesting organs.
But as climate change expedited sea level rise and increased storm surges that flooded the low-lying island, the Bramble Cay melomys and its food supply was severely threatened.
Some sellers offer expedited delivery.
