Rise and Demise of the Postwar Petroleum Order and the Contemporary Petroleum Order Post-1945‚ there emerged an international oil establishment named the postwar petroleum order. Before 1939‚ the output of petroleum in the Middle Eastern countries was not high and the region contributed only a marginal share to the world petroleum production. Before the postwar years‚ British Petroleum (BP) was the dominant player in the petroleum market however‚ after the war‚ five American companies broke BP’s
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Industrials / China 16 December 2013 Initiation: ready to move up in the world China Logistics Sector • We see the development of China’s logistics industry in the next decade following the path established by the US‚ Japan and Korea • Given a growing need for cost savings‚ emerging 3PL services and a demand boost from e-commerce should be major sector drivers • Positive rating; top pick Sinotrans; also recommend SZI‚ CIMC See important disclosures‚ including any required research
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workers‟ experience of the employment relationship‚ have encountered a difficult challenge. The high performance model is seen by a number of practitioners and researchers as the latest attempt to construct an alternative to Taylorism and lean production. Advocates of the high performance workplace (HPW) argue that it places greater emphasis on skill acquisition‚ opportunities to utilise skills‚ employee involvement and influence than lean work places. Appelbaum et al. (2000)‚ in their US-based
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provides certain information to a vendor (supply chain)supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material‚ usually at the buyer’s consumption location (usually a store). A third-party logistics provider can also be involved to make sure that the buyer has the required level of inventory by adjusting the demand and supply gaps. As a symbiotic relationship‚ VMI makes it less likely that a business will unintentionally become out of stock
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Improving Logistics at McDonald’s Logistics is the integration of the activities that procure materials‚ transform them into intermediate goods and final products through manufacturing and assembly‚ and deliver them to customers. Comprising all movement of materials from incoming shipments‚ inventory‚ production and the final delivery to consumers‚ logistics managers are responsible for the right goods being where they need to be at the right time. For a firm as large as McDonald’s logistics is an
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emerging business logistics strategies which have emerged in the market place over the last few decades and will remain dominant well into the better half of twenty first century. Analysis through this work will argue that the two strategic concepts‚ namely supply chain integration and cycle time compression‚ represent distinctly different yet complementary approaches to corporate logistics which form the frameworks around which hundreds of firms are building successful logistics system. INTRODUCTION
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concerns about greenhouse gas emissions (mainly in the form of CO 2 ). Unlike petroleum‚ ethanol is ‘carbon neutral’‚ which means that the CO 2 released when it is burned is balanced by the uptake of CO 2 from the atmosphere by plants growing to produce more grain. In light of its advantages‚ world production of ethanol has increased dramatically in recent years. As grain will continue to be used for biofuel production‚ it is appropriate that we should seek to maximize the yield of ethanol. One way
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Logistics Outsourcing and 3PL Challenges Michelle L.F. Cheong Singapore-MIT Alliance‚ N2-B2C-15‚ Nanyang Technological University‚ 50‚ Nanyang Ave‚ Singapore 639798 Abstract — Logistics has been an important part of every economy and every business entity. The worldwide trend in globalization has led to many companies outsourcing their logistics function to Third-Party Logistics (3PL) companies‚ so as to focus on their core competencies. This paper attempts to broadly identify and categorize
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Marketing Channel and Logistics of HTC Executive summary HTC Corporation deals in the manufacture of mobile wireless technology. The firm faces extensive competition from companies such as Nokia‚ Samsung‚ Apple and RIM among others. To stay afloat in the competitive field of mobile technology‚ HTC has continued to undertake extensive R&D in mobile technology‚ efforts which have been rewarded by the production of many ‘firsts’ including the
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large number of products such as several thousand types of watches‚ all the processes from design and procurement to manufacturing and logistics must be performed in a synchronized fashion. By ascertaining the latest market demand data‚ forecasting future changes‚ and conveying the necessary information to each process simultaneously‚ Casio prepares production plans that adapt to continually changing demand. Design affects all subsequent processes in ways that determine the amounts of materials
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