performance in 2003‚ which warehouse shows the most improvement? St. Louis is the only one showing any improvement‚ using cost per unit shipped as the performance criterion. The cost for the first five months of 2003 was $9.97 and for the first five months of 2004‚ it fell to $9.07. Question 2: When comparing performance during the first five months of 2004 with performance in 2003‚ which warehouse shows the poorest change in performance? The worst change is the company’s own warehouse (located in Fargo)
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Introduction ChemCo‚ a specialty chemical manufacturer‚ is considering how to best redesign its distribution network in Texas. This decision is especially relevant as the due date approaches for renewing their contracts with several of the 3PL warehouses they are currently using. David‚ the operations manager for the Texas region‚ has been actively leading the improvement of their Houston plant to remove bottlenecks in both production and distribution of the chemical products. The Houston plant
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OPRE 6370 Logistics and Distribution Assignment Two Sixue (Shawn) Du Question 1 When comparing performance during the first five months of 2010 with performance in 2009‚ which warehouse shows the most improvement? Answer After calculated all of the warehouse costs per unit of every city in 2009 and 2010 which showed on EXHIBIT 3-A and compared them‚ we found that St. Louis is the only one that shows any improvement‚ using cost per unit shipped as the performance criterion. The cost for the
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Shelly Rungta Supply chain Management srungta@umich.edu Should Merloni replace its network of regional warehouses with transit points? To focus your thoughts‚ consider the RDCs at Roma and Catanzaro. Which (or both) of these RDCs would you replace this with a transit-point system (assume that Roma is 175 km and Catanzaro is 600 km from the CDC)? Why? In the current case the company ran a pilot project for cross docking at Milano warehousing loading area. Before considering whether the company
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systems of record. It serves the needs of shoppers‚ business managers ‚ site administrators and external line of business systems that interface with commerce server. COMPANY PROFILE Statement of Problems * Having inventory items in the warehouse which had not idea about * Inventory spreadsheet that was never reporting accurate inventory levels. * Quote a delivery date to a customer only to find out insufficient inventory in stock. * Excessive inventory in stock and unable to
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gross margin for products that customer’s ordered but were not available in the warehouses. These costs are called "underage" costs and included lost revenue from cancelled orders and backordered administration. The company also had inventory that were in stock at the warehouses but were not sold during the demand period‚ these are "underage" costs. In order to address some of these issues‚ SG added regional warehouses‚ each of which handled approximately 1/8 of SG’s total customer orders. This plan
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• South Korea- Seoul We have chosen to form a global partnership with a third part logistics (3PL) provider called Kintetsu World Express‚ which is based in Japan‚ but also has offices and warehouses around the world. Kintetsu world express has cutting edge distribution centres and warehouses facilities which are equipped with global logistics systems. They also boast specialised freight and factory equipment and they handle a wide range of products from electronic goods to delicates such
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wholesale distributor of automobile parts by two disenchanted auto mechanics‚ Dan Block and Ed Spriggs. Originally located in Block’s garage‚ the firm showed slow but steady growth until 1976‚ when it relocated to an old‚ abandoned meat-packing warehouse on Chicago’s South Side. With increased space for inventory
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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drill‚ it would have taken several days before corporate headquarters was aware of the sale. With 5‚100 stores stocking more than 65‚000 parts in 50 states and 70 countries‚ it was hardly a model of modern efficiency. While huge home improvement warehouses were multiplying and making life difficult for smaller‚ independent hardware stores‚ Ace -- the 80-year old Oak Brook‚ Illinois-based cooperative of independent stores -- found a competitive edge through technology. The helpful hardware folks
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