Supply Chain Management and Ikea
SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IN INTERNATIONAL FIRM- IBM
Bragança,
2014
Contents
Introduction 3
Products and services 4
Products and services characteristics influence the logistic/supply chain strategy 5
Key customers and location: 7
Key suppliers and location 7
Distribution channels used 9
Manufacturing facilities and location 11
Warehouses facilities and location 11
Modes of transportation used 12
Figure to represent the entire supply chain 13
Other characteristics of international operations 14
References: 15
Introduction
The term, “logistics,” and its actions originated with the military. In the very beginning logistics applied to the process of supplying equipment and supplies to military. Logistics as a business concept appeared only in the 1950s with the increasing complexity of supplying businesses with materials and shipping out products in an increasingly globalized supply chain. Today, the business sector uses this term to describe the efficient flow and storage of goods from point of origin to the point of consumption. The supply chain management is a most important part of this process, including transportation, shipping, receiving, storage, and management of all these areas. Within the business sector, logistics can be applied to information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, disposal and other different fields.
Well managed logistics operations, in business terms, are performed to offer better set consumers services than business competitors with wasting minimum resources of time and money. For that reason, logistics for the enterprise is significant in meaning of storing and distributing any kind of purchase.
Many firms use logistics/supply chain strategy as a central element in their corporate strategy. In this project we will characterize an international Swedish company which designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, which adopts supply chain strategy.
Project aim.
To identify
Bragança,
2014
Contents
Introduction 3
Products and services 4
Products and services characteristics influence the logistic/supply chain strategy 5
Key customers and location: 7
Key suppliers and location 7
Distribution channels used 9
Manufacturing facilities and location 11
Warehouses facilities and location 11
Modes of transportation used 12
Figure to represent the entire supply chain 13
Other characteristics of international operations 14
References: 15
Introduction
The term, “logistics,” and its actions originated with the military. In the very beginning logistics applied to the process of supplying equipment and supplies to military. Logistics as a business concept appeared only in the 1950s with the increasing complexity of supplying businesses with materials and shipping out products in an increasingly globalized supply chain. Today, the business sector uses this term to describe the efficient flow and storage of goods from point of origin to the point of consumption. The supply chain management is a most important part of this process, including transportation, shipping, receiving, storage, and management of all these areas. Within the business sector, logistics can be applied to information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, disposal and other different fields.
Well managed logistics operations, in business terms, are performed to offer better set consumers services than business competitors with wasting minimum resources of time and money. For that reason, logistics for the enterprise is significant in meaning of storing and distributing any kind of purchase.
Many firms use logistics/supply chain strategy as a central element in their corporate strategy. In this project we will characterize an international Swedish company which designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, which adopts supply chain strategy.
Project aim.
To identify