PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS A company the size of McDonald’s requires the value chain to be increasingly important. Not only does McDonald’s want to add value for the customers‚ but also the firm looks for ways to improve the operations that makes McDonald’s a more efficient business .McDonald’s is constantly striving to add value to the firm for their customers‚ and in doing so‚ the firm has created efficiency in getting the products to the customers quickly and as fresh as possible
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Powell Logistics Inc. Executive Summary Powell Logistics Inc has been in the trucking business for over 50 years. The president and founder‚ John Powell finds himself in a dilemma as he has a difficult decision to make. This dilemma relates to making the right strategic choice for future of the company he started and grew. With the major changes happening in the trucking industry he wondered whether it was time to expand the business and simplify operations or to step down as president and pass
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Advantages of Logistics Outsourcing In the face of increasingly intensified competition in the emerging globaleconomy‚ manufacturing and retail firms are progressively turning to outsourcing of their logistics functions. Outsourcing is a viable business strategy because turning non-core functions over to external suppliers enables companies to leverage their resources‚ spread risks and concentrate on issues critical to survival and future growth. One way of extending the logistics organization
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What is logistics? "Logistics means having the right thing‚ at the right place‚ at the right time." [pic] Logistics - (business definition) Logistics is defined as a business planning framework for the management of material‚ service‚ information and capital flows. It includes the increasingly complex information‚ communication and control systems required in today ’s business environment. -- (Logistix Partners Oy‚ Helsinki‚ FI‚ 1996) Logistics - (military definition) The science of planning
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CHINA THIRD PARTY LOTISTICS SURVEY AND BETTER LOGISTICS COMPANY STUDY BY S.guo Business Logistics Management Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen HAN University.2009 6/9/2009 1 Acknowledgements 3 2 Executive summary: 4 3 Introduction 6 4 Company description and problems of company 7 4.1 Company description 7 4.2 Problems of BTL 9 5 Problem definitions 10 6 Research
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costs‚ KLF would like to consider an alternative distribution strategy in which the five regional warehouses are replaced with a single‚ central warehouse that will be in charge of all customer orders. Part A: Describe how you would design a new logistics network consisting of only a single warehouse. Part B: Provide an outline of such an analysis; what are the main steps? Part C: Specifically‚ what data would you need? Part D: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the newly suggested
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Examine the websites of 2 large and comparable companies‚ that operate in the same business area and have to deal with logistics and quality management f.e. UPS and TNT or Philips and Sony or Ford and Toyota . Teams of 4‚ powerpoint presentations 10 minutes in class in tutorial week 3 1.1 Give a short description of the 2 companies Goods and services‚ size‚ PMC‘s‚ structure‚ position in supply chain. Zara Zara is an innovating clothing company which sells clothes throughout the world
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of Technology Brian Fynes Smurfit School of Business‚ University College Dublin Recommended Citation Scholten‚ K.‚ Sharkey Scott‚ P.‚ Fynes‚ B. Le)agility in humanitarian aid (NGO) supply International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management Volume: 40 Issue: 8/9 2010 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Management at ARROW@DIT. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of ARROW@DIT. For more information
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ABSTRACT Internal logistics is one of the most important sections within enterprises‚ especially in the large manufacturing companies. It manages‚ arranges‚ plans and delivers the finished products. It is an indispensable part of the supply chain‚ as well as reflects the result of implementation company strategy. This study focuses on finding the possible ways to improve the operation process of Nokia-China internal logistics by looking into Nokia-China’s internal logistics in Dongguan Branch-
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REVERSE LOGISTICS: CHALLENGES AND ISSUES FACED BY THE MAJOR RETAIL PLAYERS IN THE UK. INTRODUCTION: “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground‚ for out of it you were taken; For dust you are‚ And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19. Effective and efficient management of product returns is an intriguing practical and research question. Growing green concerns and advancement of reverse logistics (RL) concepts and practices make it all the more relevant
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