While effective logistics systems should not be designed to hold inventory for extended times‚ there are occasions when inventory storage is justified on the basis of cost and service. Storage has always been an important aspect of economic development. In the preindustrial era‚ storage was performed by individual households forced to function as self- sufficient economic units. Consumers performed warehousing and accepted the attendant risks. Warehouses stored inventory in the logistics pipeline‚ serving
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Subject: Logistics Management Total marks 80 Case 1 (10 Marks) M/s Britecolor Paints Ltd. (BPL) is a manufacturer of decorative paints for households commercial premises and industrial application. (a) M/s. BPL had embarked on a policy of satisfying every possible customer in respect of shades‚ delivery and durability. Thus it went ahead and created twenty-five depots‚ one almost in every major city. The manufacturing base however‚ was maintained at Pune. The factory received information
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SCMA306 Logistics and Physical Distribution – Mrs. JR. Gurayah July to October 2013 UNIVERSITY OF KWA-ZULU NATAL FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT‚ IT & GOVERNANCE (MIG) LOGISTICS AND PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION SCMA306 COURSE OUTLINE 2013 This document contains important information. Please read it carefully and retain it throughout the semester. 1. Introduction Welcome to the field of Logistics and Physical Distribution - it includes the functions of planning‚ organising‚ motivating
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Logistics - a practical approach Part 1: The foundations of Logistics Chapter 1: Introduding Logistics - Logistics is more than just Transportation - Involves aspects like procurement (Beschaffung)‚ sourcing‚ planning‚ storing‚ control and distribution (Verteilung/Austeilung) - Shift towards placing production in Central Europe b/c production is cheaper - Delivery: customer gets what he ordered‚ where he wants it and at the right time‚ not too early & not too late
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Executive Summary Wal-mart is one of the biggest companies in the world‚ seen as a model company with many others following in their footsteps in respect to E-commerce‚ electronic delivery systems‚ coding and scanning technologies‚ third party logistics and warehouse design and management. With one of the most efficient supply chains‚ Wal-Mart is on pace to become the largest Internet retailer in the world. It is currently the sixth largest internet retailer in the world and is focused on
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demands on humanitarian logistics and calls for fast ‚ agile and quick response to alleviate human lives. Deficiencies in the flow of supplies may result in dire consequences. As a result of continuous human and man-made disasters logistics has now become an important factor in humanitarian aid operations‚ to the “extent that logistics efforts account for 80 percent of disaster relief” (Trunick‚ 2005). Humanitarian logistics encompasses a ranges of complicated activities as compared to commercial
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Assignment: Green logistics Sjoerd de Kreij & Bas Scheepers ID:2013319400 & 2013319495 General logistics It is widely known that logistics plays a major role in the product and service production. Logistics is described as: ‘’the part of Supply Chain Management that plans‚ implements‚ and controls the efficient‚ effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods‚ services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers
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Logistics Logistics is the management of the flow of goods‚ information and other resources‚ including energy and people‚ between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of consumers (frequently‚ and originally‚ military organizations). Logistics involves the integration of information‚ transportation‚ inventory‚ warehousing‚ material-handling‚ and packaging‚ and occasionally security. Logistics is a channel of the supply chain which adds the value
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Integrated Virtual Logistics Network for Quick Responses By Diatha Krishna Sundar October 2001 Please address all correspondence to: Professor Diatha Krishna Sundar Associate Professor & Chairperson - ERP Centre Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Bangalore 560 076 Phone : 080 - 6993276 Fax : 080-6584050 E-mail : diatha@iimb.ernet.in Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2160390 Working Paper on Integrated Virtual Logistics Network for Quick Responses
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original suppliers that provide products‚ services and information and add value for customers”. Cooper et al cited in Walters (2002) suggests the scope of the supply chain can be defined in terms of the number involved within the supply chain and the activities and functions involved. Initially the scope of the supply chain was across firms but now includes internal integration within organisations before expansion to other firms. The direction in which supply chain planning and control ‘travels’ has
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