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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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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The Indian roads and highways sector has been a key driver of India’s growth story. With a network of over 4.1 million km‚ Indian roads carry about 60% of the total freight and 85% of total passenger traffic of the country. In the last 5 years‚ the total road network increased by about 0.8 million km from 3.32 million km at a CAGR of 4.4%‚ of which national and state highways network increased by 5‚182 km and 26‚522 km respectively. In addition‚ during this period‚ National Highways Authority of
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EXCEL LOGISTIC SERVICE Excel Logistics Services is a company that is in charge of 7 companies’ distribution and storage of goods. Specifically the company is Sprinflied Warehousing and Distribution Center which has many problems and errors in their processes‚ which is generating customer dissatisfaction. The major problem of this company lies in the bad offices‚ whether of quantities or wrong merchandise. This company has several flaws and yet‚ promising guests a quality of service that it was
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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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outlets in market areas. This particular mode of transportation is subject to the highest levels of economies of scale. The economies of scale that it enjoys are: Economies of distance Pienaar‚ W J and Vogt J J (2012:356) Chapter 16 in Business Logistics Management: A value chain perspective. 4th (eds). “Economies of distance (also known as long haul economies) are attainted when the total transport cost per ton-kilometre decreases as the trip distance increases. Economies of distance arise when
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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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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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Assignment #3: Powell Logistics Case Study A. Defining the issue The immediate issue is to make a decision on the future of the family company. B. Analyzing the Case Data * The truck transportation industry is a vital part of the Canadian economy with $43 billion in sales annually and employing 400‚000 people * The for-hire sector accounts for 40% of the transportation industry in Canada * The for-hire sector has 2 service offerings: TL – Truck load‚ only full load between 2
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“Fed Ex‚ the Shipping King” Jose A. Tinajero Park University LG312 Fed Ex‚ the Shipping King FedEx Corporation is an American global courier delivery service company headquartered in Memphis‚ Tennessee. The name "FedEx" comes from the name of the company ’s original air division‚ “Federal Express”‚ which originated in1973 and was used until 2000. “Fed Ex” is known for delivering packages on time to almost anywhere in the world. Whether it’s
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