Part A Question 1 The four primary logistic activities are: 1. Transportation A key logistics activity is to actually provide for the movement of materials and goods from point of origin to point of consumption‚ and perhaps to its ultimate point of disposal as well. Transportation involves selection of the mode (e.g.‚ air‚ rail‚ water‚ truck‚ or pipeline)‚ the routing of the shipment‚ assuring of compliance with regulations in the region of the country where shipment is occurring‚ and selection
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BMGT 372 - INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CASE 2 QUESTIONS AND POINT VALUES ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION FOR SSI The following questions are intended to guide your analysis‚ but please be sure to adhere to the strategic and technical guidelines regarding formatting (see the example memo provided for you). The point values for each question are also provided‚ to make clear how the case will be graded. The case is worth 10 points total‚ or 10% of the final grade for the
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Final exam logistics 1.) Ikea case: (the 3 main topics) a. Competition between suppliers The structure of Ikeas logistic creates a high competition between their suppliers. It is because Ikea is subdivided into (many) Trading Areas‚ which compete for the commissions the headquarters of Ikea (Ikea of Sweden) gives. Each Trading Area tries to find the best thus cheapest solution for producing and delivering a product‚ so each of them negotiate with their suppliers and make an offer to the headquater
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Nigeria.SMEToolKit.org [pic]Linear programming is very important in various fields of life especially in managerial decision making. The reason is that it helps the company in minimizing the costs and maximizing the profits. Through linear programming managers can calculate the prices and the sales units which can maximize the profits of the company. Therefore‚ there are various issues which the company incurs regarding their costs and prices therefore‚ tools like linear programming can help the managers
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Report on International Logistics I. Introduction This report focuses on. the type of inventory decisions that ZK would have to make. the factors the company would take into account when choosing its transport methods. how the company would take into account customer needs when deciding on warehousing facilities. II. Findings 1. The type of inventory decision that ZK would have to make Inventory control is the supervision of supply‚ storage and accessibility of items in order
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Data Depth and Optimization Komei Fukuda fukuda@ifor.math.ethz.ch Vera Rosta rosta@renyi.hu In this short article‚ we consider the notion of data depth which generalizes the median to higher dimensions. Our main objective is to present a snapshot of the data depth‚ several closely related notions‚ associated optimization problems and algorithms. In particular‚ we briefly touch on our recent approaches to compute the data depth using linear and integer optimization programming. Although
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SMT1004 Logistics Operations/Techniques 1213 Name : SHAO HONGYI Id : u1069593 Data:02/12/2012 content Introduction 3 Background 3 Importance of logistic and supply Chain 4 Importance of cost 4 Importance of logistics customer service 4 Analysis of structure planning 5 The relationship among four factors 5 Analysis of inventory 6 Logistics models 6 The Allocation Models 6 Allocation Models of product
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Duality in Linear Programming 4 In the preceding chapter on sensitivity analysis‚ we saw that the shadow-price interpretation of the optimal simplex multipliers is a very useful concept. First‚ these shadow prices give us directly the marginal worth of an additional unit of any of the resources. Second‚ when an activity is ‘‘priced out’’ using these shadow prices‚ the opportunity cost of allocating resources to that activity relative to other activities is determined. Duality in linear programming
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An Introduction to Linear Programming Steven J. Miller∗ March 31‚ 2007 Mathematics Department Brown University 151 Thayer Street Providence‚ RI 02912 Abstract We describe Linear Programming‚ an important generalization of Linear Algebra. Linear Programming is used to successfully model numerous real world situations‚ ranging from scheduling airline routes to shipping oil from refineries to cities to finding inexpensive diets capable of meeting the minimum daily requirements. In many of these problems
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Competitiveness in today’s marketplace depends heavily on the ability of a company to handle the several important challenges like reducing total supply chain operating cost and reducing lead-times‚ increasing customer service levels‚ and improving product quality. In Figure a typical non integral supply chain is shown‚ in which the goods flow starts as raw materials at natural resources and ends with products at final customers. Raw material winners keep
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