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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ELEMENTS OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS. Chapter 1. Definition: “Logistics is the applied science of defining supporting systems and of planning and implementing the acquisition and use of resources.” Categories of Logistics : 1. Subsistence logistics :- basic necessities of life. it is relatively stable and predictable. 2. operations logistics :- relatively constant and predictable. It starts from raw material utilization
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Logistic planning and management largely focus on lowering the cost associated with producing and distributing products under a variety of constraints. Logistics can be meant in different aspects of terms. In the perspective of Customer‚ the definition is getting the right product‚ to the right customer‚ in the right quantity‚ in the right condition‚ at the right place‚ at the right time and at the right cost. In the perspective of utility and value‚ the definition is providing the time and place
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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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Prof. Merlin Industry Analysis The Computer Hardware industry is a growth industry that includes companies that design and manufacture personal and large-scale computers‚ as well as other information technology devices. The increased use of the Internet has led to increased growth and spending in this industry‚ and the computer hardware industry is projected to grow 8.4% between 2009 and 2014 (“Computer hardware industry‚” 2010). With a promising future and strong
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. PEST Analysis Political Few countries can compete with the Philippines when it comes to corruption which surprisingly involves the bookstore industry by way of the Bureau of Customs‚ according to Robin (2009) in his article “The Great Book Blockade”. Unfortunately‚ the customs official took their corruption to the shipping of books ever since the success of the international best seller book‚ Twilight by Stephen Meyer. When of the examiners of the customs official opened a shipment of books
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苹果电脑PEST分析 PEST分析是指宏观环境的分析，宏观环境又称一般环境，是指影响一切行业和企业的各种宏观力量。对宏观环境因素作分析，不同行业和企业根据自身特点和经营需要，分析的具体内容会有差异，但一般都应对政治（Political）、经济（Economic）、技术（Technological）和社会（Social）这四大类影响企业的主要外部环境因素进行分析.概括的说，分析宏观环境就是分析宏观环境中的趋势及其对企业的影响。 趋势——是具有某些势头和持久性的事件的方向或演进‚为了制定战略，组织必须能够预测它周围环境的变化，控制环境或简单地假设环境是稳定的。但事实是未来不可预测。我们虽不能预测未来，但可以预测未来的各种可能，开阔思路，这样才能判断出正确的未来‚我们根据PEST分析模型来分析苹果电脑的宏观环境：（在这里我们主要分析在中国的宏观环境） Political Analysis : Which contains frame of national economic‚ political system‚ government policy and law. Apple
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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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PEST Analysis of Virgin Media •Political Factor Demand for fixed line telephony is in decline‚ with the rate of decline in lines used by business nearly twice as high as that in the residential fixed telephony market. There is a trend for businesses to replace fixed line telephony with voice-over-internet-protocol‚ or VoIP‚ telephony‚ while residential customers are tending to migrate from fixed line to mobile telephony. However‚ Virgin Media’s fixed line customers may not migrate to the company’s
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PESTEL Analysis Political The main countries that Nike trades in are America (where Nike originated) and the United Kingdom and other European countries such as France and Germany. In these main countries that Nike sell products in there is stable political environments where there is a democracy meaning that the governments in this countries have been elected by the general public in that particular country. The majority of these countries home and export markets have been boosted with
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