organization. The process of managing stock‚ warehouse inventory‚ and freight transportation is at the heart of logistics. Logistics is the management and coordination of moving inventory from its origination to its ultimate destination. The goal of a logistics team is to find a way to do this process in the most streamlined‚ cost efficient method possible. The overall High costs in the logistics industry though are a cause for concern as they hinder the ability of organisations to provide maximum efficiency
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her students to go to the Logistics Companies in Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) to make a research of their profiles. It was like a “thunder and lightning in the middle of a sunny day that strikes us.” At first we thought that it is only one of her jokes but we later realized that she’s serious when she told us that we really need to complete the activity as a final requirement in her subject and to make us know and distinguish different Freight Forwarding and Logistics Companies regarding their
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involvement with store operations allows elc to concentrate on activities of their core competence and outsource all the non-core activities. Their core competence was to continue building their ‘easy’ brand and applying the yield management model to the Internet café business. Their business goal was to open 4 new franchises per week over the next 3 years. In order to achieve the goal of growing their franchised Internet cafes business‚ an efficient‚ flexible and cost-effective logistics system is what
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PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS A company the size of McDonald’s requires the value chain to be increasingly important. Not only does McDonald’s want to add value for the customers‚ but also the firm looks for ways to improve the operations that makes McDonald’s a more efficient business .McDonald’s is constantly striving to add value to the firm for their customers‚ and in doing so‚ the firm has created efficiency in getting the products to the customers quickly and as fresh as possible
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Logistics and supply chain management are not new ideas. From the building of the pyramids to the relief of hunger in Africa‚ the principles underpinning the effective flow of materials and information to meet the requirements of customers have altered little. Throughout the history of mankind wars have been won and lost through logistics strengths and capabilities – or the lack of them. It has been argued that the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence can largely be attributed
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LIN International Finance Case: Nodal Logistic and Custo Brasil Torreón Coah. PROBLEM: After approval from the company’s executive board‚ John Penman knew that Nodal Logistics Corporation could invest in a $45 million industrial property of 800‚000 square feet in Sao Paulo‚ Brazil. This represented an important long-term opportunity because the company’s global position could be greatly improved. However‚ the problem appear when Nodal Logistics’ legal department received a notification
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costs‚ KLF would like to consider an alternative distribution strategy in which the five regional warehouses are replaced with a single‚ central warehouse that will be in charge of all customer orders. Part A: Describe how you would design a new logistics network consisting of only a single warehouse. Part B: Provide an outline of such an analysis; what are the main steps? Part C: Specifically‚ what data would you need? Part D: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the newly suggested
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SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT Homework #1 (Due – April 18‚ 2013) Electronic Submission MS Word MSc ECOM/ICOM assignment submission system File name: hw1 and your HKU ID (e.g. hw1_1234567) Please limit the answer to 1 page for each (sub)question (60%) Case: Dell Inc.: Improving the Flexibility of the Desktop PC Supply Chain (Textbook‚ pp.179-187) 1. a) Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and logistics costs than L6? What are some of the costs that are incurred in L5 but not
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT Global supply chain enables companies to expand beyond their domestic markets and expand globally .International supply chain could be viewed as an extension of the domestic supply chain if managed well .There are several forces which determines the success of international supply chain. Global market forces involves pressures and opportunities created by the foreign companies and customers .Overseas business sometimes is a defensive mechanism
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University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business COMM 399: Logistics and Operations Management Problem Set 1 1. Solution: (a) Some ideas that you can expand on: • • • • Organizational barriers Business culture undervalues operations Top managers often uninterested in operations Lack of “ownership” of operations (b) Some ideas that you can expand on: • Identify and break constraints • Make the special case the norm • Rethink critical dimensions of work (c) Yes‚ even though it may
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