Powell Logistics Inc. Executive Summary Powell Logistics Inc has been in the trucking business for over 50 years. The president and founder‚ John Powell finds himself in a dilemma as he has a difficult decision to make. This dilemma relates to making the right strategic choice for future of the company he started and grew. With the major changes happening in the trucking industry he wondered whether it was time to expand the business and simplify operations or to step down as president and pass
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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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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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The Indian roads and highways sector has been a key driver of India’s growth story. With a network of over 4.1 million km‚ Indian roads carry about 60% of the total freight and 85% of total passenger traffic of the country. In the last 5 years‚ the total road network increased by about 0.8 million km from 3.32 million km at a CAGR of 4.4%‚ of which national and state highways network increased by 5‚182 km and 26‚522 km respectively. In addition‚ during this period‚ National Highways Authority of
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Cadbury Schweppes is an important player in the American soft drink market where American consumers drink more soft drinks than tap water. In conjunction with population growth and rising per capita consumption there was an estimated $43 billion in retail sales in 1989. However‚ trend data suggests that sales of diet drinks accounted for a large portion of the overall growth of carbonated drink sales in the 1980’s with supermarket sales the key to successful soft drink marketing. Despite being the
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EXCEL LOGISTIC SERVICE Excel Logistics Services is a company that is in charge of 7 companies’ distribution and storage of goods. Specifically the company is Sprinflied Warehousing and Distribution Center which has many problems and errors in their processes‚ which is generating customer dissatisfaction. The major problem of this company lies in the bad offices‚ whether of quantities or wrong merchandise. This company has several flaws and yet‚ promising guests a quality of service that it was
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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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HOME DEPOT Financial Analysis The Home Depot at the end of 2000 stands on rock solid financial footing as the World’s largest home improvement Retailer. As they continue to grow in size‚ so has their outcome of success. Home Depot’s net revenues have grown 208% between FY 1995 and FY 2000. Home Depot’s growth in net earnings over the same period has been 284%. The revenue that the firm is retaining as profits is outweighing the total amount being brought into the company. In 1998‚ Home Depot was
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outlets in market areas. This particular mode of transportation is subject to the highest levels of economies of scale. The economies of scale that it enjoys are: Economies of distance Pienaar‚ W J and Vogt J J (2012:356) Chapter 16 in Business Logistics Management: A value chain perspective. 4th (eds). “Economies of distance (also known as long haul economies) are attainted when the total transport cost per ton-kilometre decreases as the trip distance increases. Economies of distance arise when
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the logistic function. 2. Discuss how the logistic function contribute or can contribute to achieve the corporate objectives. 3. What are the benefit and challenges of outsourcing the logistic function to 3PL 0r 4PL service providers. 1.0. Introduction Today’s business is more global than ever before. Markets are everywhere and new ones are sprouting up every day. Suppliers shift‚ supply chains adapt. Customers are more discerning and demanding. And logistics has
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