April 4th 2012 E-Commerce Assignment topic: Impact of E-commerce on transport and logistics Table of content 1. Introduction 3 2. E-commerce and business 4 A. B2C E-commerce 4 B. B2B E-commerce 5 C. Evolution and forecast of E-commerce 5 3. Impacts on the supply chain 6 A. Problem raised by E-commerce 6 i. Demand 6 ii. Stocks 6 iii. Communication 6 B. Reaction and adaptation of companies 7 i. Information interchange 7 ii. Pure players 7 iii.
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Otis Toy Trains Company of Minneapolis‚ Minnesota‚ was extremely popular in the 1960’s‚ 70’s‚ 80’s‚ and somewhat the 90’s‚ however since then they have struggled to meet sales that cover their total costs. This lead to a proposal by the Joyous Luck Prosperity Toy Company (JLPTC) of China‚ who offered a price per unit of production to be between 40 and 60 percent lower than their current costs. When considering the attractiveness of this proposal‚ Otis Toy Trains must look at more details than just
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e-Tracking in Automotive Industry Logistics Arash Riazifar[1] Sydney Graduate School of Management‚ University of Western Sydney 16920314@student.uws.edu.au Abstract In the last decade‚ enterprises and businesses greatly have had emphasize on e-tracking and e-services. However‚ a coherent informational architecture and systematic definition is lacking yet. Although‚ recently new technologies like RFIDs with advanced applications have been introduced‚ many companies
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Otis Elevator Case 9/7/12 Otis’s management made vast improvements in their corporate vision to obtain a strategic advantage over their competitors through the introduction of OTISLINE and their e*Logistics programs. Otis’s George Davis urged the company to create a centralized customer service system which would allow them to introduce the concept of 24 hours 7 days a week to their customers. OTISLINE was mainly set up in order to increase customer satisfaction as a result of only having a
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where the market is mature the business is driving by price. Our key business will be the service‚ because of technology is driven by Japanese companies. We have to found our best technology‚ and way to do things at the less cost. It is important for Otis PAO to have a general view of the region and know as well as we can the local problems‚ in order to take advantage of the opportunities in each country. As a general view the challenges for each country are: Hong Kong: - Maintain a reasonable
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Otis Frank Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas‚ Texas. His mother Sarah was a homemaker and his father Walter was a carpenter‚ who later became a minister. Otis Boykin attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas‚ where he was the valedictorian‚ graduating in 1938. He attended Fisk University on a scholarship and worked as a laboratory assistant at the university’s nearby aerospace laboratory. He then moved to Chicago‚ where he studied at Illinois Institute of Technology but dropped out after
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centuries that forever changed the lifestyle of people into a more urban lifestyle. The elevator‚ or‚ safety elevator as it was called at the time was invented by an American industrialist and entrepreneur. His name was Elisha Graves Otis. With this invention‚ Otis basically laid the foundation for all elevator stores and companies to come‚ and forever changed the look of urban areas and skyscrapers for the society of his time and modern time. The elevator was one of the most important and impactful
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us to our destinations faster and help us innovate our technologies to higher levels to keep up with our fast-paced world. Based on simple machinery‚ its minimalism proves to be the heart beat of our improving industrial communities. Although Elijah Otis improved the invention of the elevator in 1850‚ the composition‚ structure‚ and limitations are still improving today. Though there are many types of elevators‚ the most common type is the roped elevator. This type of system consists of many parts
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Executive Summary The development of information technology has caused the nature of logistics and supply chain management changing dramatically. Furthermore‚ the relationship between retailer and supplier changed as well due to the changing of retail exchanges. As retailers are going to gain much more business opportunities and reduce cost on supply chain‚ it has affected the supplier in somehow. According to the change‚ there are some issues cannot be ignored because of the importance of the
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I thank my school---Singapore Institute of Materials Management‚ I’m fortunate I can enter this school. He takes me enter new sector about logistics‚ make me deeply interest to logistics. Secondary‚ I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to lectures who led me into the world of translation. I am also greatly indebted to the lectures at the logistics: Mr. Romeo N.Dumaguing‚ Mr. Dickson Lee‚ Mr. Max Mew‚ Mr. Henry Leong‚ Mr. Goh SK‚ Mr.`Yong SC who have instructed and helped me a lot in the
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