29/03/2013 Embracing Sustainability Information Technology and the Strategic leveraging of operations in third party logistics (“Operations-as-Marketing”) Review of the Article The aim of this article was to establish a strong foundation for the use of information technology and strategic leveraging of operations in business‚ with a focus on third party logistics. A great deal of background research on key concepts was provided showing that there is a strong correlation between the success
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Analysts Report “A Critical Analysis of a Multinational Logistics Provider’s Entry into Singapore’s Global and Domestic Hub” Business and Economics of the Asia Pacific Countries Introduction The Asia Pacific region is known as the most dynamic region in the world accounting for over half the worlds GDP and over 60% of exports. (Chen. M. 2004). Asia ’s current account surplus is projected to fall by 3% of regional GDP in 2010 and 2011 and from 5% from 2007. Making a modest contribution
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Third-party logistics company CEVA Logistics has appointed Didier Chenneveau to lead its growing business in Asia-Pacific. Chenneveau is currently executive vice president and chief supply chain officer for LG Electronics‚ with worldwide responsibility for global supply chain management for the company’s $50 billion operations. Prior to joining LG in 2008‚ Didier was vice president of Americas operations for HP’s Imaging and Printing Business. He was based in San Diego. He also worked in Europe
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About Retail Logistics Logistics is a process of planning‚ implementing‚ and controlling the operations of the supply chain activities to look upon the customer needs more efficiently. It involves planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement and in conversion of final products. The use of logistics in the Retail industry has led to low fulfillment costs‚ shorter delivery times‚ and enhanced ability to focus on service delivery rather than on administrative processes
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FIRM VALUE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS SECTOR ABSTRACT The transport and logistics sector is an essential contributor for the development of a country. Since the new economic reforms initiated in 1991‚ the transportation infrastructure of India has witnessed a paradigm change. The need for transport & logistics services grew at an annual rate of 10%‚ in the last decade the demand in the transport and logistics sector grew along with the accelerating Indian GDP. This
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2008 Reverse Logistics* How to realise an agile and efficient reverse chain within the Consumer Electronics industry *connectedthinking 4 PricewaterhouseCoopers Foreword Welcome to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ first Reverse Logistics report in the Consumer Electronic industry. This report is designed to help companies in the Consumer Electronics industry to better explore‚ understand and share the ideas about today’s pressing business and strategic topic: Reverse Logistics. Our unique
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PREFACE Over the last few years‚ the concept of logistics has become more and more recognized‚ it has even become a vital part of foreign trade activities. Integrating with the trend of globalization‚ Vietnam has gradually developed forwarding and logistics industry‚ created incentives to develop export and import activities in the country. After a long period of time fostering professional knowledge‚ I found this internship program a chance that the university had offered to students to gain actual
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Below is a review of Logistics and Supply Chain Management written by Martin Christopher in 2005. This is a third edition of the book; the first one was published in 1992 when supply chain management as an idea was in its infаncy аnd relаtively few compаnies hаd madе it а
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 1133 A project manager’s level of satisfaction in construction logistics Hyounseung Jang‚ Jeffrey S. Russell‚ and June Seong Yi Abstract: Customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are the fundamental goals of construction logistics. While much research has been focusing on exploring the relationship between the contractors and the ultimate customers‚ known as the owner‚ to improve the understanding of the significance of customer
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internet technologies have provided impetus and challenges to the logistics. New technologies present new means to manage the flow of information. IT as a productivity tool can be utilized to both increase the capability and decrease the cost at the same time. It has been widely accepted that firms can achieve competitive advantage by cost reduction or differentiation with the proper implementation of IT. Enabled by IT the logistics has become a source of competitive advantage for many firms. In
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