...Service CHEP Canada Inc. 7400 East Danbro Crescent Mississauga ON L5N 8C6 Phone: 905-789-4213 Fax: 905-789-4279 E-mail: Stephen Aikman Sr. Manager, Client Strategy RBC Royal Bank 320 Front Street West, 4th Floor Toronto ON M5V 3B6 Phone: Fax: E-mail: Thomas Aldred General Manager Schenker Logistics Inc. 1920 Albion Road Rexdale ON M9W 5T2 Phone: 416-798-8070 x235 Fax: 416-798-4416 E-mail: Desmond Ali Warehouse Manager USANA, Canada Co. 1 & 2 - 361 Rowntree Dairy Road Woodbridge ON L4L 8H1 Phone: 905-264-7549 Fax: 905-264-9873 E-mail: Sabina Ali Customs & Traffic Manager Conair Consumer Products, Inc. 100 Conair Parkway Woodbridge ON L4H 0L2 Phone: 905-265-4533 Fax: 905-265-4595 E-mail: Anthony Allwood President Systems Logic 4 - 62 Plant Farm Blvd. Brantford ON N3S 7W3 Phone: 519-758-5426 Fax: E-mail: Jay Amer VP, Business Development OEEDC - Greater Peterborough 210 Wolfe Street Peterborough ON K9J 2K9 Phone: 705-743-0777 x2125 Fax: 705-743-3093 E-mail: Jill Anderson Senior Managing Consultant IBM Canada 127 Wimbleton Road Etobicoke ON M9A 3S4 Phone: 416-567-2046 Fax: E-mail: Sandy Andrews Logistics Manager Tilley Endurables, Inc. 900 Don Mills Road North York ON M3C 1V6 Phone: 416-441-6141 Fax: 416-444-3860 E-mail: Robert Antenucci Director PowerStream Inc. 161 Cityview Blvd. Vaughan ON L4H 0A9 Phone: 905-532-4558 Fax: E-mail: Arthur Aparicio Senior Planning Manager Wal-Mart Canada Corp 1940 Argentia...
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...the value of good branding, meaning that they mainly rely on the market forces rather than technical achievement. Market driven bank As one of the big five banks in Canada, TD bank terribly concerns the consequences to its clients in the long term from the services it provides. For example, along with the popularization of Internet, TD was aware of the market demand for online banking, and thus developed the first online banking system in Canada so called "Easyweb" in the 80s. The new technique was a light spot at that time, and greatly benefited the bank from attracting a large base of new clients. In the following years, TD bank continued to improve the Easyweb system based on market reaction and provide exceptional banking services to its clients. After 20 years endeavour, TD bank is now ranked the second largest bank in Canada, with the largest customer base. Logistics strategy A company's logistics strategy should be matching to its overall business strategy to take effect. A logistics design strategy, according to Rushton, "is concerned with ensuring that business methods are aligned and organized so that they operate across the traditional company functions and become supply chain oriented" (Rushton et al 2010, p.88). There are four principles should always be considered when developing a logistics strategy, including responsiveness, reliability, resilience and relationships (Christopher...
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...for profit organization that is currently responsible for all Education related procurement for Atlantic Canadian provinces except NL will solve the major issues discussed above and will provide more value to NL’s educational structure and at the same time will reduce overall operational and overhead costs. ISI provides strategic sourcing approach towards procurement by operating based on Total Cost of Ownership model and by bulk commodity and services purchasing provides Total Landed cost strategy to the business. Being a not for profit organization, their True north is to serve the community and creating a better Educational structure in Atlantic Canada. They have demonstrated their ability to add value, reduce cost and therefore providing excellent services within a specified budget to all the other provinces in Atlantic Canada, which has proven...
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...Key Factors that affected Target’s Canadian Supply Chain Target opened its first store in Canada 2 years ago and expected itself to be a giant business unit in this country but unfortunately failed to make it. There are numerous factors for its failure and one of them is dysfunctional supply chain system which put it into the jeopardy where it had to shut down its 133 stores across the region. Following are some key factors which led Target to leave the Canadian Market. 1) Target had 3 distribution centers across the Canada which proved to be insufficient for ensuring the shelves of its stores fully stocked up. This might be because of the vast distance they had to cover and the number of stores they had to support. For the two centers the furthest store is about 850 miles away and for the third, the furthest is 1640 miles away. Inability to keep up with the demand of the customers and insufficient delivery of supplies to the stores made it difficult for Target to survive in Canada. 2) In Canada, Target had outsourced its supply chain operations to a third party logistics firm called Eleven Points Logistics and also outsourced food distribution to Sobeys. So all these expenses cost it a lot as a result it had to set the prices higher. So, offering products at higher prices is another factor which made Target to close down its operations. 3) The third factor which affected Target’s supply chain is Canada’s vast geography. Its supply chain covered a span of 7,082...
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...Transport acquisition related to our Supply Chain Study: 2 TL & LTL Trucking Business: 2 The new acquisition challenges and effect on supply chain sector: 3 Conclusion: 4 References 4 Introduction: Our subject in this assignment is about truck transportation mode where Manitoulin Transport one of the biggest transportation company in CANADA, acquires the LTL division of Weastcan Fright last month September 2014. How is this acquisition related to our study in supply chain management, what is meant by LTL trucking, what challenges would face Manitoulin Transport due to this acquisition, how this acquisition would affect transportation business in western CANADA in terms of cost, service, customers, suppliers, and others in the field of supply chain ….. Etc. All of these and more, we will try to investigate and explain to our valuable reader. How Manitoulin Transport acquisition related to our Supply Chain Study: Supply chain management is the integrated knowledge and practice where we can balance the demand of various customers with supply of various manufacturers and producers. The main link between all of them is logistic transportation of goods and services. Therefore, transportation with its different modes (air, land, sea, train & pipeline) would serve the median to move the goods and services from production point to...
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...unskilled labours, and the transfer of labour in different firms also will promote the whole industry’s technology and knowledge. In addition, clustering helps to promote the development of peripheral industries. When 1898, the first U.S vehicle company Olds has been establish in Detroit. After that, with the development of modern automotive industry, amount of auto companies have been set up there. At the present time, Detroit gradually formed an external scale economic focus mainly on GM, Ford, Chrysler as center, supplemented with peripheral industries, such as auto accessory, auto Research and development. And because of the location of Detroit, which includes the Great Lakes, railways and three international airport terminals, efficient logistic system accelerates the development of external scale economic. In spite of the involve of 2008 economic crisis, the big three losed more than 10% of market, but with the recovery of economic and the strength of external economic, the operation rate of big three all reached 100% in 2012. Base on the external scale economic, it decrease of the cost also made customer could purchase vehicle more cheaper, means it created more demand and trade opportunity. Detroit...
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...CASE STUDY 3 MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO-OP Case Study 3 Mountain Equipment Co-op Mountain Equipment Co-operative (MEC) was built in the late 1960s due to the heavy demand of buying outdoor gears and equipments across Canada. In the past few years, the company opened several stores in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and so on to serve the outdoor enthusiasts in the major regions in Canada. But its not enough, MEC wants to serve more customers and expand its market countrywide. The best way to achieve the goal is to create a website, and hence allow the customers buying on-line despite of where they are. This is what the president and chairman of MEC concerning about recently. By analyzing the following aspects, the company may create a successful website to match the customers' requirement indeed. First, MEC should consider how the market segments will impact the website and it's ecommence strategy. Customer segmentation is a method for grouping customers based upon similarities they share with respect to any dimensions the company deem relevant to its business (http://www.mindofmarketing.net). And Trites & Boritz (2008) identifys "an ebusiness strategy is the sum of all the choices that a business makes to offer unique value to its customers that differentiates its business model from those of its competitors" (pp.23). There are five major market segments MEC deal with: Young adults, Retired, Families, Businesses, and Gift buyers...
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...CHAPTER 13 – STRUCTURE OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN AIMS OF THE CHAPTER Products move through a series of operations in their process. This movement usually includes a physical flow of goods, and then we refer to the flow of materials through a supply chain. This chapter introduces the concept of logistics – or supply chain management – which is responsible for this flow. The chapter looks at the broad area of design, emphasising the number of points on the supply chain, the best locations for these, and the relationships between them. The aim of the chapter is to introduce the concept of supply chain management. More specific aims are to: • Explain the role of logistics – or supply chain management Logistics – which is equivalently known as supply chain management and sometimes physical distribution – is responsible for all the physical movement of materials. This includes movement into the process from suppliers, through operations, and then out of the process to customers. It is difficult to think of any business activity that does not depend, to some extent on logistics supplying required materials. Activities generally included in logistics are procurement, inward transport, receiving, warehousing, stock control, order picking, material handling, distribution, recycling, returns and waste disposal, location and associated communications. • Appreciate the role and importance of supply chains A supply chain consists of the series of activities and organisations...
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...International Management (Fall Semester) Individual Case Write Up 1: Amazon Goes Global 1. Why did Amazon choose the United Kingdom as its first entry location? Why not other countries such as Canada and Austrlia? With the emergence of a global marketplace, Amazon has since ridden on the waves of the opportunities that comes with globalisation. After more than a decade of expansion, Amazon’s international operations accounted for about 43 per cent of its revenue, bringing in $26.28 billion in 2012. This shows the significance of targeting the international markets. However, entry into foreign market does not come without risks and costs that resulted from barriers created by distance. The CAGE Framework of distance by Ghemawat explained distance as 4 main attributes – Cultural, Administrative, Geographic, Economic.1 To address these risks and costs, it is crucial to first assess the extent and type of differences between the USA market and the United Kingdom market. Amazon’s entry into United Kingdom (UK) can be attributed to minimal distance and various similarities, which allowed Amazon to significantly reduce risks and costs. Primarily, the UK market has a lot of similarities to the US market in terms of cultural, administrative and economic distance. UK has the second most number of native English speakers (60 million), after US (231 million), and is also the place where English was first spoken. Since books were the primary products sold by Amazon, the similarity...
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...packages sender, destination etc. The processing begins when the barcode data is sent to the computer centre closest to the destination for analysis. Output in this case is after all the data is received and processed it is then transmitted to the DIAD handhelds the UPS delivery workers carry with them. With the DIAD all the information is used to help the driver take the best route to delivery considering traffic and weather conditions. The technologies used by UPS are their own computer networks that have capabilities of automatically tracking the location of each product. They also have a functioning website where you can find out everything about the company as well as track your products at every stage in the delivery process. The logistics and supply chain methods UPS uses is also sold to other companies to give them the same type of competitive advantage they hold in their market. The infrastructure within the company is all networked in their central computer and the same information can be accessed by any computer connected in their network. UPS’s information systems solve a lot of problems. With their superior technology the customer is able to precisely tell when their product will arrive, how much shipping costs, and where it is currently located. This helps customers get an idea of what’s happening and...
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...Canadian National Railway CN is currently single transcontinental railway company which spans Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Also after purchase of Illinois Central and several others small railway companies in US, CN gained trackage in central US from Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The company was established in 1918 and has grown into largest company in transportation railroad industry in the country with almost 22 000 employees in US and Canada and market capitalization of 32 billion dollars. Based on results at the end of 2010 CN has one of the lowest operating ratio of 63.6%. Canadian National Railway s offers to its customers shipping services of cargo loads across North America. Clients are able to ship just about any kind of load such as automobiles, coal, metals, hazardous materials, petroleum products, alternative energy, and oversized or overweight. The networks of railroads and logistics parks are strategically located in the heart of economic centers of North America in order to get loads faster to the destination and at significantly lower cost. Another factor which lets decrease cost of shipping, is that size of load what can carry three trucks can fit on single railcar. Also CN provides additional alternative shipping services for those clients, who are located away from rail lines or ship large amounts. There are two markets which could apply for such company as CN. First one is transportation industry...
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...Global Logistics and Local Dilemmas Peter V. Hall Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada ABSTRACT Global logistics which connects widely dispersed producers and consumers are increasingly organized through gateways and corridors located in urban regions. At the same time, global logistics systems are increasingly infrastructurally, economically and institutionally disconnected from the city-regions that host them. This disconnection raises a series of dilemmas for the host localities. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding the dilemmas that confront cities and regions that host national and continental logistics gateways. The framework, which is illustrated with examples from several seaport gateways, focuses on the land use, economic and community development impacts of gateways and corridors on the host city-region. It also pays attention to the differing scales at which these impacts occur; these range from the highly localized to the metropolitan scale. It is proposed that solutions to the local dilemmas of global logistics be evaluated in terms of sustainability criteria, namely efficiency, equity and environment. 1. INTRODUCTION While the economic benefits of global trade are enormous, the potential for differences in local and national perspectives when developing gateways and corridors are no less significant. Global logistics which connects widely dispersed producers and consumers are increasingly organized through gateways...
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...match the changing markets trends and needs and to guarantee the delivery of sample products within 14–21 days of order. ZK produce toys for the home market but also work with a number of international toy manufacturers and retailers in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. They currently undertake contract manufacture work for six companies based internationally as well as supplying 100 buyers in China and throughout South East Asia, Japan and Australia from their own portfolio. Over the past 10 years they have steadily increased their international partnerships and have built a reputation for quality products, adaptability, flexibility, excellent customer service and delivery reliability. Currently they manage a 95% availability on stock items. The company is very aware of the highly volatile and competitive market they operate in and have had experience in dealing with several new product launches in the USA, Canada and Europe which have demanded high production volumes and strict delivery schedules. The production facilities are well run, modern, meet ISO9000 standards and have an excellent safety record. ZK currently employ two specialist dedicated international logistics...
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...products to Europe is different from to send all of these to Canada. Logistic methods, time and cost all these factors are different and they should think about all these factors to determine the cost. In addition to that, profit margin and the size of market is important. They need to go a big market with big opportunities. To make a decision they need to do market analysis. The case does not mention that but I believe there are different growths and different opportunities. Cost-profit calculation must be calculated carefully and they should figure out their supply chain and inventory management. B) This is not a reasonable strategy and the obvious reason of that is high cost. Establishing a subsidiary, hiring or sending employees, training them and because of the similar points it is a long and high cost project and we do not even sure about that. To start to think about a subsidiary first we should be sure about to continue to make business in this market. At that point, subsidiary gives us a chance to solve problems faster, to know market deeper and to reach the customers directly. A) First of all the aim of all companies is profit. To decide which factors are important we always need to think about profit. Cost factor is so important to decide which country is more feasible because cost is directly related with distance. To send all products to Europe is different from to send all of these to Canada. Logistic methods, time and cost all these factors are different and...
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...Retail industry in Canada (P.E.S.T) Analysis There is no doubt that consumer’s play major role in driving the economic engine. Consumers are in today’s market place interacting with different marketplace than they were before. Consumers’ ability to take full advantage of the new marketplace is related to their socio-economic status and time constrain. Organization is open systems, which mean they interact with and respond to their environment. An organization takes inputs and processes those inputs into outputs. These inputs which organization consumes to produce output come from external environment. Due to the fact that organizations interact with this external environment which are out of organization control researchers of this organization always looked for ways to describe and understand those environments and their potential impact on organization performance. These researches can be summarized from two different prospects. 1. The environment as a source of information. 2. The environment as a source of resources. The external environment sectors comprise the specific environment and the general environment. The specific environment includes customers, competitors, suppliers, and other industry competitive variables whereas the general environment includes economics, demographic, socio culture, political legal and technological sectors. The retail marketplace in Canada has been divided into two segments, big box stores move into the retail shopping industry at...
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