PREFACE Over the last few years‚ the concept of logistics has become more and more recognized‚ it has even become a vital part of foreign trade activities. Integrating with the trend of globalization‚ Vietnam has gradually developed forwarding and logistics industry‚ created incentives to develop export and import activities in the country. After a long period of time fostering professional knowledge‚ I found this internship program a chance that the university had offered to students to gain actual
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Below is a review of Logistics and Supply Chain Management written by Martin Christopher in 2005. This is a third edition of the book; the first one was published in 1992 when supply chain management as an idea was in its infаncy аnd relаtively few compаnies hаd madе it а
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Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 1133 A project manager’s level of satisfaction in construction logistics Hyounseung Jang‚ Jeffrey S. Russell‚ and June Seong Yi Abstract: Customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are the fundamental goals of construction logistics. While much research has been focusing on exploring the relationship between the contractors and the ultimate customers‚ known as the owner‚ to improve the understanding of the significance of customer
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internet technologies have provided impetus and challenges to the logistics. New technologies present new means to manage the flow of information. IT as a productivity tool can be utilized to both increase the capability and decrease the cost at the same time. It has been widely accepted that firms can achieve competitive advantage by cost reduction or differentiation with the proper implementation of IT. Enabled by IT the logistics has become a source of competitive advantage for many firms. In
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Operations and Supply Chain Management? Difficulty: Moderate Keywords: information‚ decision‚ operations‚ management 7. Of the three flows linking organizations in a supply chain‚ information and monetary flows always move upstream and physical flows always move downstream. Answer: False Reference: Why Study Operations and Supply Chain Management? Difficulty: Moderate Keywords: information‚ monetary‚ information‚ flows‚ supply‚ chain AACSB: Communication 8. A
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who are in upstream and who’s in the downstream‚ also we will talk about the first supplier and second supplier. Secondly we will give information about the data they have in the production level of the LittleTouch LeapPads and from where they bring it. Thirdly we will talk about which part of production process is limited on the Capable Toys and how they respond to these challenges. Fourthly about the challenges on the material sourcing and how they resolve it. Finally about the logistics solution
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Supply chain consists of various linkages: upstream linkages also known as sources of supply‚ internal linkages inside the organizations involved in supply chains and downstream linkages which include distribution and ultimate customers (Hugo‚ Badenhorst-Weiss & van Rooyen‚ 2002). Upstream Linkages Upstream linkages consist of suppliers and manufacturers/producers. Suppliers include suppliers who supply materials and other goods required by producers. The upstream linkages are important in ensuring material
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categories as shown in the model below: Upstream Activities Downstream Activities Porter distinguishes between primary activities and support activities. Primary activities are directly concerned with the creation or delivery of a product or service. The goal of the primary activities is to create value that exceeds the cost of providing the product or service and therefore generating a profit margin. They can be grouped into five main areas: 1. Inbound Logistics: Includes the receiving‚ warehousing
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Logistics and supply chain management: all about relationships The battle of market is no longer a contest between rival companies; it is a contest between competing supply chain. The struggle to find the balance between effective cost control and efficient customer service drives improvement across the entire supply chain. The challenge facing organizations today as they struggle to grow in this competitive environment is the number of relationships that must be developed and level of co-operation
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quality. The supply chain causes us to think about quality differently and it causes us to expand our vision in internalize processes that had previously been externalized. In dealing with suppliers its upstream processes are negotiating‚ selecting‚ and improving supplier performance and the downstream processes are delivering products and services‚ and serving the customers. The supply chain encompasses many different functions and processes that include all the activities from the raw materials stage
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