...INDIAN LOGISTICS INDUSTRY 2009 PROJECT REPORT ON INDIAN LOGISTICS INDUSTRY FOR PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED TO: Ms. Gunjeet Kaur Lect. of SVSM SUBMITTED BY: Rajnish Kumar Roll No. SVPG/07/05 PGDM – 6th Trimester SWAMI VIVEKANAND SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Ramnagar (near Banur), Patiala 1 | Page SVSM RAJNISH THAKUR (PGDM) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MARKETING INDIAN LOGISTICS INDUSTRY 2009 Punjab LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT - INTRODUCTION Logistics management is that part of the supply chain which plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective, forward and backward (reverse) flow and storage of goods, services and information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements rather to the customers’ delight. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a logistician. Logistics, as a business concept, evolved only in the 1950s. This was mainly due to the increasing complexity of supplying one's business with materials, and shipping out products in an increasingly globalized supply chain, calling for experts in the field who are called Supply Chain Logisticians. This can be defined as having the right item in the right quantity at the right time at the right place for the right price and to the right target customers (consumer); and it is the science of process having its presence in all sectors of the industry. The goal of logistics work is to manage...
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...Briefly describe the logistics industry in this country and the workforce According to The World Bank Logistics Performance Index, the logistics industry in France is ranked number 13 compared to 160 countries, measuring at 3.85. Their highest ranking indicator was that of timeliness which may be contributed to their vast transportation infrastructure. Important segments within their logistics industry is wholesale and retail trade, transportation, accommodations and food services. Within industry, the manufacturing, mining and quarrying segment represents 12.8 percent and construction accounts for 6 percent of total GDP. Agriculture contributes 2 percent to GDP. Yet, France is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. France has a boasting workforce of 27051 thousand as of January 2014. Currently, France has 8 major distribution hubs and an expected increase in manufacturing will deliver another €17 million by 2020 and consumer spending up to €150 million by 2020. The workforce in France is comprised of 70% of the active population. The service industry employees almost 75% of the workforce, manufacturing captures over 20% and agriculture yields almost 3%. France is known for its great infrastructure and solid workforce which are key indicators that are attracting big business. Describe the key logistics companies in France (Name, size, locations, etc). Provide some business information about them (What logistics activities they perform?). Bolloré...
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...ANALYSIS OF LOGISTICS INDUSTRY : ANALYSIS OF LOGISTICS INDUSTRY By:- Group No. 7 Prijo Mathew Sivaramakrishnan Suvrata Nandy Gaurav Verma Dhinesh Kumar Objectives: Objectives To study in detail about the Global Logistics Industry To study in detail about the Indian Logistics Industry To find out the areas where Logistics Industry in India is lacking To compare the Global Companies (UPS, FedEx and DHL) with the Indian Logistics Companies ( Gati , DTDC and First Flight) INTRODUCTION: INTRODUCTION What is Logistics? Management of flow of goods and services Integration of information, transportation, inventory etc Reduces operational cost, improve delivery performance and enhance customer satisfaction The importance of logistics is growing and now the logistics industry has become highly recognized in the global scenario Evolution of Logistics Industry: Evolution of Logistics Industry Global Scenario of Logistics Industry: Global Scenario of Logistics Industry Size of the Global Logistics Industry Annual logistics cost of the world is USD 3.5 trillion The annual logistics cost in any country varies in between 9% to 20% of their GDP Logistics market in US is 10% of its annual logistics cost Global Logistics industry is estimated to be worth USD 300 billion Largest service providers are located in Europe Biggest market - US Current Status and Dynamics of the Industry: Current Status and Dynamics of the Industry Issues – Pricing pressures, high cost of operations, low...
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...Reverse Logistics in Indian Automobile Industry Reverse Logistics is a process in which a product moves in reverse through the supply chain network. It may be used for the purpose of recapturing value of a final product or for even proper disposal. It may also be termed – service, as the process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient and cost effective transfer of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished products and related information, from consumption to the point of origin, for the purpose of recapturing value of proper disposal. While the primary sectors involved in making use of this process may be classified as the Pharmaceutical Sector, Retail sector, Automobile sector and the Electronics sector, we are mainly about to focus all our attention to the practices of ‘Reverse Logistics’ in the Indian Automobile Industry. To truly know why the whole idea of ‘Reverse Logistics’ assumes significance when considered in terms of the Automobile Industry, first we need to think of the nature of the final product i.e. Automobiles or Vehicles as we call them. The parameter one needs to look at is the life cycle of the product and what happens to the final product once it reaches the end of its useful life. By its very nature, it’s difficult to predict the life cycle of the final product. This is because; it is highly susceptible to the nuances of the human subjectivities. But even if we are unable to predict the duration of the life cycle, we have definitely...
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...Single User License: Logistics Market - Global And China Forecast, Share, Size, Growth And Industry Analysis 2017 USD 4315.5 • • • • Flat 10% Discount!! Free Customization as per your requirement You will get Custom Report at Syndicated Report price Report will be delivered with in 15-20 working days Transparency Market Research State Tower, 90, State Street, Suite 700. Albany, NY 12207 United States www.transparencymarketresearch.com sales@transparencymarketresearch.com Request Sample Buy Now REPORT DESCRIPTION Logistics industry has grown multifold as the barriers on trade has been reduced facilitating both domestic as well as international trade. A wide variety of consumer goods, gadgets, furniture and other items are been sent across the globe. Apart from government support the advances in various methods of transportation is driving the logistics market. Among all the geographies North America and Europe is leading the market, whereas logistics as an industry is gaining importance and growing in Asia Pacific countries like India and China. Browse Full Report with TOC: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/logistics-market.html The report contains the global scenario of Logistics market discussing detailed overview and market figures. The research report analyses the industry growth rate, industry capacity, and industry structure. The report analyses the historical data and forecasts the Logistics market size, production forecasts along with key factors...
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...Logistics Sector Present situation and way forward January 2012 www.deloitte.com/in 2 Contents About Deloitte About ICC Overview I. Challenges faced by the Logistics industry in India II. Impact of challenges faced III. The way forward Bibliography Websites Contacts 4 5 6 8 13 14 16 18 19 Logistics Sector Present situation and way forward 3 About Deloitte Deloitte is one of the largest professional services organizations in the world with a worldwide presence of over 182,000 professionals in over 150 countries, with $28.8 billion in annual revenue (FY11). Deloitte’s global presence is highlighted below. the right combination of local insight and international expertise. Deloitte in India provides a full range of management consulting, financial advisory services, Accounting, Tax and IT solutions delivery to clients, tailored to Deloitte: Global network - 150 countries : 182,000 people Europe 297 offices in 47 countries Key Offices: London, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Dusseldorf, Madrid, Moscow, Prague Asia Pacific 113 offices in 26 countries Key Offices: Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia North America 131 offices 2 countries Key Offices: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, Montreal South America 69 offices in 28 countries Key Offices: Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Caracas Africa & Middle East 46 offices in 35 countries Key Offices: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kenya, Tel Aviv India 15000 Professionals...
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...Reverse Logistics Phillip Ranck Dr Kandis Wyatt RLMT500: Reverse Logistics Management American Military University Introduction With reverse logistics being an integral aspect to a company’s effective and efficient transportation process, it is imperative that a standardized program is implemented. To develop a program that meets all the demands required of a reverse logistics process has proved difficult. As the economy grows, so does the need for company’s demand to produce products. Part of a company’s role in producing a product is also developing and implementing a reverse logistical plan. Reverse logistics has become a popular topic, regardless of the product or type of industry. It is so important that companies and industries have been employing the reverse activity of product flow along supply chains within their business processes. The importance of implementing a well developed reverse logistical program is proving to be extremely important in companies or industries overall efficiency and effectiveness. Reverse Logistics With reverse logistics being an integral aspect to a company’s effective and efficient products’ profits, it is imperative that a standardized program that maximizes profits is implemented. The difficulty in producing a standardized program is that each company, industry, technology, and product varies immensely. Meeting each and all the varied demands required has proved difficult of a reverse logistics process. This is challenging companies...
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...PGP2015-17 Project Report on Recent trends in Ecommerce logistic and their adaptation in Steel Logistics process To Mr. Gopal Kapoor & Mr. Alok Singh Student Name: - Suraj Tripathy Roll number: - PGP/19/350 Introduction The fast development of information and mobile technology in the past few years is changing many aspects of our lives i.e. how we look for the information we seek, how we plan our travel and most of all how we buy products or services. Even though classic store based retail is still preferred, e-commerce, which involves buying and selling of products and services mainly through electronic channels, like computer, tablets, mobiles etc. is gaining ground. The most common form of e-commerce is online shopping. Ecommerce can be of mainly three categories. Most common is business to consumer e-commerce (B2C), where individual customers order various products online, which they then receive through courier, parcel or by post. Second category of e-commerce focuses mainly on transactions between companies or businesses, such as manufacturers and a wholesaler, similarly from wholesalers and retailers and vice versa is called business to business e-commerce (B2B). The next category of e-commerce refers to the transactions between...
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...China 2015: Transportation and Logistics Strategies Leadership requires innovation, expansion and redesigned networks A s China’s economy grows, so grows its transportation and logistics industry. China is becoming a more mature and self-confident country and a driving force in the new global economic structure, and this is bringing new challenges and opportunities to the five sectors of the country’s transportation and logistics industry — express, road freight, air freight, contract logistics and international freight forwarding. How can Chinese companies improve the country’s transportation and logistics environment? Leadership in this industry requires innovation, expansion and redesigned networks. China’s extraordinary economic growth continues. Even as the global economy struggles to recover from the financial crisis, various statistics indicate that China’s economy has emerged resilient, with rapid growth expected to last into the foreseeable future. In this context, the transportation and logistics industry in China is also poised for major growth over the next five years, portending significant changes for its five main segments: express, road freight, air freight, contract logistics and international freight forwarding (see figure 1 on page 2). As the boundaries between these segments blur, consolidation will accelerate and network coverage and density will grow. At the same time, an increasing focus on sustainability will add new pressures to cost structures....
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...Executive Summary This report endeavors to look at FedEx from the strategic initiative point of view and how it was able to adapt to changing business environment to improve itself. While organisations the world over have come and gone a few leave a lasting footprint on the way they have moved in the particular sector. FedEx with its various innovative ideas has left lasting footprint that has forever altered the scope of service within the logistics industry. From its humble beginnings as a delivery company, it has set itself up a global logistics and business services organisation that has shaken the belief held by behemoths regarding the level of innovation and service that they can offer to the customer base. With its out-of-box approach it has made industrial leaders like UPS, DHL etc, and look like new kids in the block. The strategic initiatives that the organisation has taken during various time a frame has exemplified the leadership ability of Mr. Smith to work toward uncertainly and how to respond to them. Introduction A general assumption regarding strategy is that executives by applying a set of tools will be able to predict a future of any business clearly enough to choose a clear strategy or direction to adopt. This overall scenarios and assumptions made usually led to a layout of vision for the future with assumed precision. However, one needs to remember that when the time ahead looks uncertain this approach is at best only helpful marginally and...
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...The aim of supply chain management is a coordination of all the business processes to achieve the best performance of business..Today's business climate has rapidly changed and has become more competitive as ever in nature. Businesses now not only need to operate at a lower cost to compete, it must also develop its own core competencies to distinguish itself from competitors and stand out in the market. Tourism is an industry that offers all the goods that tourist need, such as sight-seeing, hotel, travel agency,shopping area. From that , we can simply know that there is a large part of interaction between tourism and other industry. This will need enough supply chain management flexibility to support the whole process.Supply Chain Management is important because of relationship between each party. If every party join hand and work together, it will create cost savings and time to market reduction and everyone will enjoy the benefit. In order to achieve effective operation of travel agencies supply chain,necessary to maintain the relationship between internal departments. Around the needs of the tourism market, to be coordinated between the various departments.Travel agencies should be based on tourism market - oriented, in the design of tourism products or services, product supply,synchronize the various departments of sales and so on, continuously. And based on changes in supply and demand of tourism,departments must pass information in a timely manner, coordinated and...
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...Department 8-1-2008 A Strategy for Third-Party Logistics Systems: A Case Analysis Using the Blue Ocean Strategy Changsu Kim Yeongnam University, Korea, c.kim@yumail.ac.kr Kyung Hoon Yang University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, kyang@uwlax.edu Jaekyung Kim University of Nebraska - Lincoln, jkim6@unl.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/managementfacpub Part of the Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Commons Kim, Changsu; Hoon Yang, Kyung; and Kim, Jaekyung, "A Strategy for Third-Party Logistics Systems: A Case Analysis Using the Blue Ocean Strategy" (2008). Management Department Faculty Publications. Paper 4. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/managementfacpub/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Management Department at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Management Department Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Omega 36:4 (August 2008), pp. 522–534; Special Issue on Logistics: New Perspectives and Challenges; doi 10.1016/j.omega.2006.11.011 Guest Editors — Angappa Gunasekaran and T.C. Edwin Cheng. Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03050483 Submitted May 31, 2006; accepted November 11, 2006; published online May 24, 2007. A Strategy for Third-Party Logistics Systems: A Case Analysis Using the Blue Ocean...
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...Reverse Logistics Case study comparison between an electronic and a fashion organization Master’s thesis within Logistics Author: Martin Creutz Fredrik Larsson Tutor: Jönköping Beverley Waugh May 2012 Master’s Thesis in Logistics Title: Author: Tutor: Date: Subject terms: Reverse Logistics Case study comparison between an electronic and a fashion organization Martin Creutz & Fredrik Larsson Beverley Waugh 2012-05-14 Reverse logistics, drivers and barriers, reverse flow, electronic industry, fashion industry Acknowledgements We would like to thank Lars Bergh and Robert Johansson from Elgiganten who have provided us with enormous support and guidance. Their insights are largely reflected continuously in our writings and serve as a solid foundation to this study. We would also like to thank our contact person at the fashion retailer. Special thanks to our supervisor Beverley Waugh. Your comments and opinions were greatly appreciated and taken into consideration. Abstract A large number of organizations that offer products today are experiencing returns; whether it is the return of a book from an online book store, the return of a television to the electronic retailer or a garment to a fashion retailer. How organizations handle product returns (reverse logistics) differs and also how much focuses each organization places on it, because after all; it is extremely difficult to actually make revenue on reverse logistics. Why spend time and money on it? This study focuses on comparing...
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...1. 2. The overall management of the way resources are obtained, stored and moved to the locations where they are required. Logistics management entails identifying potential suppliers and distributors; evaluating how accessible and effective they are and establishing relationships and signing contracts with the companies who offer the best combination of price and service. 3. Materials management as a definition is the process which integrates the flow of supplies into, through and out of an organization to achieve a level of service which ensures that the right materials are available at the right place at the time in the right quantity and quality and at the right cost. * Material Management is responsible for purchasing the highest quality equipment and products at the lowest possible cost for the organization. 4. supply management describes the methods and processes of modern corporate or institutional buying. This may be for the purchasing of supplies for internal use referred to as indirect goods and services, purchasing raw materials for the consumption during the manufacturing process, or for the purchasing of goods for inventory to be resold as products in the distribution and retail process. * Supply management deals primarily with the oversight and management of materials and services inputs, management of the suppliers who provide those inputs, and support of the process of acquiring those inputs. The performance of supply management departments...
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...Executive Summary Many companies are looking for third party logistics providers to help them so they can focus more on their business development. PKT is one of the Malaysia successful third party logistics company. PKT was established and founded by Dato’ Michael Tio’s father in 1974 and they provide freight forwarder services. The company has branches in Malaysia and other countries like Korea and Taiwan. PKT’s head office is located at Shah Alam and it is a large building called “One Logistics Hub”. The warehouse can be separated into The Ship, The Waves and The Lighthouse. Different warehouses have different functions. PKT use different transportation modes to deliver goods to specific destinations, including road, air and sea. Various communication technologies are used to manage and exchange information, such as computerized system, RFID, EDI system and satellite vehicle tracking system. I strongly believe that PKT will successfully achieve its target and expend its marketplace to provide more international trade services. Introduction Inbound logistics refers to the transport, storage and delivery of goods coming into a business. It is the primary process of logistics. The company concentrates, purchase and arranges the flow of raw materials or finished goods from suppliers to manufacturing plants, warehouses and retail shops. Outbound logistic refers to the same for goods going out of a business. It is a process that related to storage and movement of finished...
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