Third Party Logistics – An Overview A third-party logistics firm is a firm that provides outsourced or “third party” logistics services to companies for some portion or all of their supply chain management functions. Typically‚ a core company providing services or products is considered the first party; the customer (or customers) the second party. A third-party‚ then‚ is a firm hired to do that which neither the first or second party desires to do. 3PL typically specializes in integrated warehousing
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Value chain To begin with‚ it is necessary to provide some background about value chain that was coined by Micheal Porter with his book in 1985. In this bestselling book‚ the idea of value chain was explain how the firm create the competitive advantage and value after some specific activities which deemed as value-adding porocess. It was splited into two parts in Porter’s Value chain mode and they are "primary activities" and "support activities". "primary activities" include following steps
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Product Characteristics 10 i. Government 10 ii. Commercial Aircraft 11 8. Scale Economies 11 A. Internal 11 B. External 12 9. Experience Curve Effects 12 10. Capacity Utilization 13 11. Industry Profitability 14 SIX FORCES OF COMPETITION 14 1. Threat of New Entrants 15 2. Bargaining Power of Suppliers 16 3. Bargaining Power of Buyers 16 4. Threat of Substitute Products/Services 17 5. Intensity of Rivalry among Competitors 18 6. Relative Power of other Stakeholders-Unions 18 COMPETITIVE
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several factors. ALDI offers its consumers an excellent value‚ so selling good quality products at a low price‚ thus obtain good market share‚ for example in Germany has a share of about 40 %. With this strategy ALDI and are available to any consumer purchasing power regardless of social class or so quality is not equal to expensive and that manages to attract new customers. ALDI offers a limited number of products compared to other supermarket chains‚ ALDI sells between 700 and 900 products. ALDI usually
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of quality to logistics systems has not been fully realised. In the last decade the growing importance of quality management has been a widely debated topic. Much empirical evidence links an organisations quality management practices to improved organisational performance therefore greater surplus. Due to increasing global competition‚ competitive priorities have shifted from simply cost to quality and flexibility (DeMeyer‚ Miller‚ Nakone‚ and Ferdows‚ 1989)‚ as a result logistics is applied as
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Case Study Southwest Airlines Course: Services Marketing 3rd Term Southwest Airlines (SWA) began services in 1971. In 1972‚ court order no charter flight beyond Texas in order to make up for the lost revenue they were forced to sell aircrafts and keep just the ones needed to continue business and operate scheduled services. Schedule could be kept if the turning time of a plain was low enough (10 minutes). Nevertheless‚ Dallas-based SWA achieved 40 consecutive years of profitability and an
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MANUEL COSTA MIGUEL SIMÕES 1ST TRIMESTER 2014/2015 Carolina Pires | 152114133 Catarina Pires |152114067 Fábio Viegas |152114135 Francisca Silva |152114156 Manuel Costa | 152114141 Miguel Simões | 152114028 CONTENTS 005 022 INTRODUCTION VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 024 007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 009 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 009 PEST ANALYSIS 011 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES FRAMEWORK 013 SEGMENTATION 018 SWOT ANALYSIS 019 CORPORATE STRATEGY 024 COMPANY’S SCOPE NATURE AND SOURCES OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 019
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Turkish Airline Industry Overview June 12‚ 2011·by AC· in Aviation. · Today‚ I would like to provide brief information regarding the marketing and survival strategies of the airline industry‚ both locally and internationally. I should probably stress that the airline industry is too global to be considered as only domestically so a marketing analysis ignoring the international market situations would be off balance and superficial. The airline industry in Turkey was first constructed as a monopolistic
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CASE STUDY BY Aurelio Montelongo Jr. June 22‚ 2012 Southwest Airlines is in an environment whose conditions for most in this type of industry have been anything but profitable. So why is it that Southwest Airlines‚ who has been profitable in this volatile market been able to make money? Though Southwest did have a losing quarter it was not due to lack of fliers or its service to its customers‚ but an investment in its fuel hedging cost. As fuel dropped in price‚ Southwest
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Singapore Airline Strenght: Premium product and brand SIA has been at or near the top in premium product rankings since the years. Although the gap has been closing‚ but its leading premium product remains an important differentiator . Meanwhile‚ SIA brands product still remain one of the best known and popularity. Airlines around the world use SIA as the benchmark for product and brand; there cannot be a higher compliment. The logo of Singapore Airline is special.It is a bird‚ inspired by a silver
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