MEGA CITIES Mega-cities is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population excess of 10 million people. Mega cities can be distinguished from global cities by their rapid growth‚ new form of spatial population density‚ and both formal and informal economies‚ as well as poverty‚ crime‚ and high levels of social fragmentation. Since 2001‚ there are 18 megacities such as Tokyo‚ New York City‚Shanghai‚ Mexico City‚ Mumbai‚ Seoul and others that had population in excess of 10 million of
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Subject: Logistics Management Total marks 80 Case 1 (10 Marks) M/s Britecolor Paints Ltd. (BPL) is a manufacturer of decorative paints for households commercial premises and industrial application. (a) M/s. BPL had embarked on a policy of satisfying every possible customer in respect of shades‚ delivery and durability. Thus it went ahead and created twenty-five depots‚ one almost in every major city. The manufacturing base however‚ was maintained at Pune. The factory received information
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1a Supply chain management is described as a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ warehouses‚ and stores‚ so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities‚ to the right locations‚ and at the right time‚ in order to minimize system wide costs while satisfying service level requirements. It is important to understand the basic issues underlying SCM and the challenges facing companies to achieve effective management of their supply chains
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What is Trade Cycle? Meaning The alternating periods of expansion and contraction in the economic activity has been called business cycles or trade cycles. Image Credits © Havayolu101. The period of high income‚ high output and high employment is called as the Period of Expansion‚ Upswing or Prosperity. The period of low income‚ low output and low employment is called as the Period of Contraction‚ Recession‚ Downswing or Depression. Definition of Trade Cycle According to Keynes‚ "A
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PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MAYNILA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT TOP EXECUTIVE PROGRAM PERSONNEL AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS REACTOR – No reporter – Monica Adolfo TOPIC -4 DEVELOPMENT SUBMITTED BY: KAREN B. GATMEN SUBMMITTED TO: COMM. JOSE WALDEMAR VALMORES SUMMARY HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT An integral part of Human Resource Management’s function is the development of the most important resource which is staff‚ employee‚ and people. The responsibility
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Management Planning Paper - Wal-Mart In today’s global market‚ corporations must have a plan if they are to be successful. Throughout this planning process management must approach this procedure in a conscious and systematic way. Deciding what to do and how to do it are the important steps that must be followed in this planning process. This article will provide examples of these and other ethical issues Wal-Mart has had to overcome. Basic Planning Process Six steps make up basic planning process
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MGMT328: Logistics Management Assessment 2: Individual Research Report Is the term ‘Green Logistics’ an oxymoron? Is the term ‘Green Logistics’ an oxymoron? An oxymoron is a term in which contradictory words appear in conjunction with one another such as bitter sweet or a deafening silence. In an attempt to answer this question we must first define what the term ‘Green Logistics’ means. When the term is broken down into its composite parts ‘logistics’ is simply defined by Murphy and Wood (2011)
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Running head: Transportation and Logistic Chain Ahmed Lajili Ali UB.ID# 0860828 University of Bridgeport Mechanical Engineering Master of science Principle of Logistic ((MEEG 574)) Pr. David Burnell Abstract Purpose: to introduce the issue of the transportation and logistics chains. Finding: outlines how the individual papers affect debate on the nature and development of transportation
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By Hossam El- Deen Mustafa Dawood Under the supervision of Dr. Amr Elsaeed Third Party Logistics ( 3PL ) 3PL stands for a third-party logistics provider. This is a company that provides third-party (or outsourced) logistics services for the partial or complete functions of their supply chain management. These types of logistics providers usually specialize in transportation‚ warehousing or integrated operation services that are able to be customized and scaled to the requirements of
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This paper got 97% high distinction Question: While there is widespread evidence to support the view that effective quality management practices can lead to improved organisational performance‚ some would argue that the importance of quality to logistics systems has not been fully realised. In the last decade the growing importance of quality management has been a widely debated topic. Much empirical evidence links an organisations quality management practices to improved organisational performance
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