CHAPTER 8 Distribution Channels and Logistics Management Objective: examining the nature and role of the channels in attracting and satisfying customers The Nature of Distribution Channels • Distribution channels are intermediaries used by the producers to bring their products to the market. • Why? Because the use of intermediaries bring greater efficiency in making goods available to target markets. In other words‚ they match the supply with the demand. • Most important benefit of using intermediaries
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[pic] Unit Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning Executive Summary: Unit Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning The University has recognized the significance of each unit producing and maintaining Disaster Recovery Plans (also known as business continuity or contingency plans) in order to prepare and address how each unit will continue doing business in the event of a severe disruption or disaster. The Disaster Recovery Planning Team‚ coordinated by the Client Advocacy
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STUDY OF PROFITABILITY OF A LOGISTICS COMPANY USING ECONOMETRICS TOOLS Executive summary This study examines the impact of three factors‚ namely Sales‚ Fixed assets and Interest paid on the profitability of a logistics company. Econometric tool of multiple linear regression model was used for analyzing the impact of above factors on profitability of a major logistics company GATI Limited. Based on the financial data of last 10 years 2000-2009 the regression analysis has revealed that profitability
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Transportation: Critical Link In The Supply Chain Study Questions 1. What are the major forces or external factors that have impacted our economy during the latter part of the 20th centuries? How have each of these factors influenced companies as well as their respective supply chains? Which of these factors do you feel is the most important for a computer company? Why? In the 21st century‚ transportation systems will face significant challenges and problems because of global environment
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Applying Lean Logistics to SCM The system of interconnected businesses used to push a product from supplier to consumer is defined as a supply chain. Supply chain management (SCM)[1] focuses on managing the supply chain in an effort to improve the quality and time it requires to manufacture a product. The marriage of lean production and supply chain management creates lean supply chain management‚ which provides a much leaner and more economical supply chain for the product to flow
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ARCHIVE- THE PLANNING PROGRESS: PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN FOR DECENTRALISED PLANNING With the decentralisation of powers to Local self-government Institutions‚ Local administration department has an important role to play in the formulation of policy and implementation of developmental works at the grass roots level. Director of Panchayat and Director of Municipal Administration form the two field departments. Consequent to the 74th Amendment to the Constitution of India‚ the Local self-government
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Importance of Planning Larry Layton Hodges University ISM 4610 – OL Project Management Dr. Jake Watts Due: January 23‚ 2013 Any successful Project Manager will tell you that the success of a project is determined by the initial plan. This plan‚ although changes may arise‚ provides a blueprint that allows managers to measure deliverables that determine the project’s success or failure. In the beginning phase of planning‚ the specifications are outlined which results in an agreement by
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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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ECOLODGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Title Page Acknowledgement I. Phase 1 – Conceptualization‚ Planning and Initiation a. Project Objectives b. Developmental Issues c. Local Government Regulations i. Height of the buildings ii. Density of ecolodge structures iii. Provisions for parking iv. Materials used for ecolodge construction v. Safety and health standards adopted for construction and operation vi. Other planning and operational matters vii. Amount landscaping or open land
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implementation there is a need for organization and planning. For these reasons this is why we have come up with a process plan for implementing the changes that we feel as are necessary. In order to be proactive here is what we must do. First we must initiate our project. Initiating the project means that we have gotten he necessary approvals to start the project. It also means that we have identified our stakeholders. Our stakeholders are anyone who the project affects. We must also think about how it affects
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