3PL to 4PL Lead Logistics Provider (LLP) Business Model By Trevor Barrows 1 Executive Summary A 3PL or third-party logistics provider is defined as a company that provides logistics services for its clients and customers‚ where as a 4PL or fourth-party logistics provider is defined as a company that provides logistics services that manages a group of logistics providers that perform 3PL operations‚ including value add services. Driven by supply chain forces 3PL’s are consolidating into 4PL
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To support his family‚ he started to work as a traveling salesman-door to door sales- for the Crown Cork and Seal Company. Gillette had tendency to invent sth and he tried so many times but he failed to make them usable. It was in the 1890s when a business idea popped to his mind. He realized that there was a need in the market for cheap‚ disposable razor blades. It would not be wrong‚ if we defined shaving history as before gillette-after gillette. Before gillette‚ shaving was big trouble‚ as the
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mobile phone market‚ including new products for HTC to tap into the lower price market as well as localized promotion campaigns to sell phones in rural areas. It is time for HTC to sway away from satisfied with being ’quietly brilliant’. Context analysis Company Background HTC Corporate‚ founded in 1997‚ was a relatively obscure Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM). Incorporated as High Technology Computer‚ HTC focused on manufacturing of computer notebooks. The company created the world’s
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September 7‚ 2011 was an epic day for American fast-fashion fans. The Spanish retailer‚ Zara‚ owned by parent company Inditex‚ finally launched its ecommerce site. What on earth took them so long? When I saw the first announcement of their ecommerce launch I ran home and dug through my undergrad course work and quickly produced a case study I’d read in 2003. “Zara: IT for Fast Fashion” a Harvard Business School case study that examined Zara’s IT infrastructure and how it supported their unique
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404 travel sites‚ providing prices and itineraries for hundreds of airlines‚ more than 155‚000 hotels‚ all leading rental car companies‚ and 17 cruise lines”. This report mainly examines the business model components‚ marketing implications of a leading online travel agency ‘kayak.com’‚ and also an analysis of how they are competing with the brick and mortar travel agencies. Kayak.com is a website that provides online businesses such as airline companies‚ hotels and car rental companies with the
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The business partnering model and its impact on both the HR function and HR practice Since the concept of the business partnering model was introduced by Ulrich in 1997‚ the composition of the HR function has dramatically changed. As Goodge (2005) identified‚ “partnering is fundamentally changing almost every HR function‚ every HR job‚ and every HR career” (Pg. 32). Ulrich argued that HR needed to deliver on both a strategic and administrative level and identified four key roles through which organisations
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threats and opportunities‚ it is also essential to analyze the internal environment of the company‚ to identified the types of activities that form the production process. An analysis tool that helps identify what are the key activities of the production process of Ryanair and which are auxiliary or complementary is the analysis of the value chain (value chain). The value chain‚ in fact‚ lets to consider the enterprise as a system of value-generating activities. This value is defined as the price that
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FINDINGS………………………………………………………………....…....3 3.1 Tuckman’s four stage model for team building. 3.1.1 Theory in practice…………………………………………….....4 3.2 Collective and Individualistic cultures within International teams………4 3.2.1 Individualism…………………………………………………......5 3.2.2 Collectivism……………………………………………………....5 3.2.3 Theory in practice…………………………………………...……6 3.3 Culture Shock and effects on International teams………………………..7 3.3.1 Theory in practice……………………………………………..….8 3.4 Balance in International
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MGT 472; Strategic Mgt. Ryanair Case Study 1.) What are the characteristics of the European aviation environment at the time of the case? (20 points) When Ryanair was established in April of 1986‚ there were many factors to consider in order to properly assess their current environment. In order to attain a firm grasp of their current atmosphere‚ we must delve deeply into its external‚ general‚ industrial‚ and competitive facets. European aviation at the time was dealing with different
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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