2 What specific role does logistics play in supply chain operations? Logistics is the primary conduit of product and service flow within a supply chain arrangement. It is the work required to move and to position inventory throughout a supply chain. It is a combination of order management‚ inventory‚ transportation‚ warehousing‚ material handling and packaging as integrated throughout a facility network. Logistics is essential for effective supply chain connectivity. 1.4 Compare and contrast anticipatory
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USING EFFECTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 1.0 Introduction Christopher (2005‚ p.5) describes supply chain management as follows: “The management of upstream and downstream relationships with suppliers and customers to deliver superior customer value at less cost to the supply chain as a whole” Until recently‚ supply chain management has been largely viewed as a necessary evil and the focus has been strictly on cost reductions. Today however‚ many are coming to the realization that supply chain management
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close to 12% in the same period. In this paper we examine Zara’ production and distribution systems‚ looking for clues to its mass-customization capabilities. We argue that the key to Zara’ success is its Supply Chain (network and flows) approach. The production network is made of a tightly integrated net of product specialized factories‚ intensive in capital and run under Toyota’s principles‚ and a secondary network of over 400 micro enterprises‚ tightly controlled by Inditex but independent. All these
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product or services to right people at the right time‚ thus a global distribution strategy is a plan created by the management that specifies how the firm intends to transfer its products to intermediaries‚ retailers and end consumers (Munusamy‚ 2011). A distribution strategy defines how you are going to move products from point of creation to points of consumption‚ in a cost-effective manner and also defines how the organisation is going to create and satisfy demand for your products. Also a global
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Environment Bus. Strat. Env. 17‚ 260–271 (2008) Published online 20 July 2006 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/bse.527 Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Tourism Xavier Font‚* Richard Tapper‚ Karen Schwartz and Marianna Kornilaki Leeds Metropolitan University‚ UK ABSTRACT Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) encapsulates the trend to use purchasing policies and practices to facilitate sustainable development at the tourist destination. Most research has focused
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Improving the supply chain performance moldovan vasilie ‚ MD mail : moldovan@artelecom.net Table of Contents Abstract ..............................................................................................................3 Short description of the company ....................................................................
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of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory Craig R. Carter and Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada‚ College of Business Administration‚ Reno‚ Nevada‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The authors perform a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management and demonstrate the relationships among environmental‚ social‚ and economic performance within a supply chain management context. Design/methodology/approach
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is part of a network of suppliers and customers. In this age of international market and competition‚ a company ’s competitiveness rests on its ability to provide desired goods and services. Supply chain management is one of the hot topics in business today. Render (1997) has defines "supply chain management" is the integration of activities that procure materials and services‚ transform them into intermediate goods and final product‚ and deliver them to customers. The strategy is to apply a total
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Sustainable Supply Chain Management: State of the Art Sarker Rafij Ahmed Ratan PhD student (1st level) University of Dhaka‚ Bangladesh. Visiting research fellow ‚ CERRAL‚ IUT Lumiere Lyon 2‚ France. Email: getrafij@yahoo.com Supervisor : Dr. Mijanur Rahman Treasurer ‚ University of Dhaka Professor‚ Department of Marketing‚ University of Dhaka‚ Bangladesh. Acknowledgement Dr. Aicha Sekhari ‚ Associate Professor IUT‚ University Lumiere Lyon 2‚ France. Dr. Syed Akter Hossain‚ Professor Post
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A Report On Castrol India Ltd.‚ Mumbai Assignment: Supply Chain Executive Summary Castrol India LTD. Castrol India Limited is a Public Limited Company with 70.92% of the equity held by Castrol Limited UK (part of BP Group).From a minor oil company‚ with a share of about 6% in 1991‚ Castrol India has grown to become the second largest lubricant company in India with a market share of around
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