“The 10 Keys to Global Logistics Excellence” The constant population grow‚ globalization and economic growth makes logistics a primary focus for business‚ especially big ones. Thomas Friedman said: “supply chaining” is fundamental as barriers to trade and interdependence are reduced across the globe.” That pretty much means that every day proper logistics are more fundamental to business to succeed and prosper. Fundamental changes across many areas of business‚ politics and the supply chain
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The impact of globalisation on logistic service providers (LSP’s) located in Belgium. In the light of the logistics industry we will start with a definition of globalisation and a description of the driving forces behind the ongoing internationalisation process. Secondly we will define the behaviour of the logistic providers in terms of their strategic decisions‚ performance‚ services and international presence following this globalisation wave. An increasing amount of supply chain activities
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DECISION MAKING INTRODUCTION Decision making is an essential aspect of modern management. It is a primary function of management. A manager’s major job is sound/rational decision-making. He takes hundreds of decisions consciously and subconsciously. Decision-making is the key part of manager’s activities. Decisions are important as they determine both managerial and organizational actions. A decision may be defined as "a course of action which is consciously chosen from among a set of alternatives
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Contains the decisions that a company has to take in order to know what to produce‚ the materials needed‚ how much will the materials cost and ensure the delivery process from the supplier to the final customer is on-time with the lowest cost possible. FedEx Supply Chain provides top quality services for their customers with high-value products and critical supply chain requirements. FedEx cautiously integrates all of their programs‚ which leverage their immense shipping and information networks
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REVERSE LOGISTICS: CHALLENGES AND ISSUES FACED BY THE MAJOR RETAIL PLAYERS IN THE UK. INTRODUCTION: “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground‚ for out of it you were taken; For dust you are‚ And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19. Effective and efficient management of product returns is an intriguing practical and research question. Growing green concerns and advancement of reverse logistics (RL) concepts and practices make it all the more relevant
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HP-LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: HP is an American multinational computer hardware‚ software and services corporation headquartered in Palo Alto‚ California‚ United States. It provides products‚ technologies‚ software‚ solutions and services to consumers‚ small- and medium-sized businesses -SMBs and large enterprises‚ including customers in the government‚ health and education sectors.The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William (Bill) Redington Hewlett and Dave
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Managing product returns for reverse logistics This paper provides a framework to manage product returns for reverse logistics. It takes a specific product catalog in India as an example. It utilizes an integrated framework to estimate returns of products. Next step‚ it makes decisions on operations‚ such as disposition‚ location and capacity of facilities. After that‚ take strategic‚ operational and customer service-related constraints into to consideration to give a time horizon for returned
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CONVERSATION: SUBTLE INFLUENCES ON MORAL DECISION MAKING BRIAN C. GUNIA Johns Hopkins University LONG WANG City University of Hong Kong LI HUANG INSEAD JIUNWEN WANG J. KEITH MURNIGHAN Northwestern University This research investigated the role of contemplation‚ conversation (conceptualized as social contemplation)‚ and explanation in right-wrong decisions. Several theories suggest that contemplation or morally oriented conversation will promote ethical decisions and that immediate choice or self-interested
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at an acceptable cost is the challenge of logistics. It’s an area that embraces purchasing and supplier management‚ materials management and manufacturing‚ inventory management and warehousing‚ distribution and transport‚ and customer service. With all this said I do believe that the corporate world can benefit from anticipatory logistics. First there must be a definition of what "anticipatory" logistics really is. Just like some might interrupt "logistics" and "Supply Chain Management (SCM)" as being
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CREATE Research Archive Published Articles & Papers 1-1-1980 Structuring Decision Problems for Decision Analysis Detlof von Winterfeldt University of Southern California‚ winterfe@usc.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://research.create.usc.edu/published_papers Recommended Citation von Winterfeldt‚ Detlof‚ "Structuring Decision Problems for Decision Analysis" (1980). Published Articles & Papers. Paper 35. http://research.create.usc.edu/published_papers/35 This Article
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