and HomeHelp to consider in evaluating this proposal? Is time-based logistics the right strategy for each company? These are the major business propositions: * Information transmission system from POS data to manufacturing plant. * Inventory level control * The future perspective of annual growth * New business process * The initial investment on equipment‚ and additional cost The time-based logistics will be the right strategy for each company. The first reason is the
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The name of the paper is solving one dimensional cutting stock problem with discrete demands and capacitated planning objective. Cutting stock problems are NP-hard problems and mentioned about what is NP-hard problems. One of classical NP-hard problems which could not be solved within the polynomial computation time is a cutting stock problem. Wongprakornkul and Charnsethikul said that the most powerful algorithm for solving linear problems with many columns is the column generation procedure and
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Information Technologies in Logistics Management Anil Gurung University of Texas at Arlington Department of Information Systems and Operations Management‚ College of Business Administration Office: Room 630 Business Building Box 19437 701 S West St. Arlington‚ Texas 76019-0437 Voice: 817.272.3528 Email: gurung@uta.edu ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of information technologies (IT) on logistics by conducting a survey of literatures on academic logistics journals and practitioner journals
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Yogesh Nimje PGDM‚ 2nd year Roll No. 2011015 Spl: Operations Reverse Logistics in Automotive Industry The review of literature:- Various studies are done in the reverse logistics and factors considered in these studies such as barriers‚ challenges‚ environmental issues faced by the logistics and supply chain industry. Reverse logistics has been defined as ‘The process of planning‚ implementing‚ and controlling the efficient‚ cost effective flow of raw materials‚ in-process inventory‚
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XPO Logistics‚ Inc. (XPO) BRADLEY S. JACOBS is the Chief Executive Officer of XPO Logistics‚ Inc. A career CEO‚ he has led two public companies. United Rentals‚ Inc.‚ which he cofounded in 1997; and United Waste Systems‚ Inc.‚ founded in 1989. Mr. Jacobs served as Chairman and CEO of United Rentals for the company’s first six years‚ and as Executive Chairman for an additional four years. He served eight years as Chairman and CEO of United Waste Systems. Previously‚ Mr. Jacobs founded Hamilton Resources
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analyzed and interpreted in sub-sections 4.9a to 4.9o. 4.9a Reverse Logistics Costs : Factor - ’ Top Management Commitment ’. Table 4.9a. Reverse Logistics Costs: Factor - ’ Top Management Commitment ’. a Level of Importance. Not at all Important Least Important Somewhat Important Important Highly Important Total No. of Respondents 0 0 7 197 64 268 % Respondents 0.0 0.0 2.6 73.5 23.9 100.0 Note. a Level of Importance : Not at all Important to Highly Important.
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HOME DEPOT Financial Analysis The Home Depot at the end of 2000 stands on rock solid financial footing as the World’s largest home improvement Retailer. As they continue to grow in size‚ so has their outcome of success. Home Depot’s net revenues have grown 208% between FY 1995 and FY 2000. Home Depot’s growth in net earnings over the same period has been 284%. The revenue that the firm is retaining as profits is outweighing the total amount being brought into the company. In 1998‚ Home Depot was
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Department of Global Business and Transportation An An Introduction to Logistics and the Supply Chain Abstract Abstract Oft times I have found that students come into a course1 that assumes they have knowledge of logistics and the supply chain‚ but‚ in fact‚ lack that knowledge. This note helps to provide a bridge to those students and improve their chances of successfully completing the course. Applicable to the Following Courses TMGT 7200 MIS in Transportation TMGT 8510 System Design
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1 . How can design for logistic concepts be used to control logistics costs and make the supply chain more efficient ? Design for logistics concepts can be used to control logistics costs by applying the concepts to the supply chain process . The DFL focuses on three concepts ‚ which are : packaging and transportation ‚ parallel and concurrent processing ‚ and standardization . In terms of controlling logistics costs ‚ the DFL suggests that packaging and transportation can be improved
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“Never lose your imagination. Always dream of things that are better and think about ways to reach those things.” More recently‚ the Bose Corporation has not only been applying this motto to their products‚ but to their supply chain management and logistics innovation as well. Issues and Analysis: In order for a company like Bose to be successful in streamlining so many different methods and systems into one fully functional supply chain network‚ the organizations
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