How can design for logistic concepts be used to control logistic costs and make the supply chain more efficient? The three components for design for logistics are: 1. Economic packaging and transportation 2. Concurrent and parallel processing 3. Postponement/delayed differentiation By packaging the product so that more products can be shipped and stored more efficiently will lower transportation costs and storage costs. Concurrent and parallel processing focuses on modification of
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Andri Wicaksono Jl Bendi Raya Blok B2 No.43 Tanah Kusir, Jakarta Selatan 08567861166 e-mail: ngkong_andri@yahoo.com OBJECTIVE To obtain a position as a Marketing Assistant Manager that utilizes my 2 years of marketing and promoting product experience, my experience founding and managing a small business, and my bachelor’s degree in management. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Experience with successfully
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The SCM of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is one the largest retailing companies in the world. Due to its proficient supply chain management practices, Wal-Mart has been recognized by analysts for its ability to achieve leadership-status. Its supply chain management is backed by the need to meet the demands of customers while reducing costs. The company's success is its ability "to offer a vast range of products at the lowest costs in the shortest possible time. It was all made possible due to Wal-Mart's highly
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Five ways to simplify your supply chain Summary: The purpose of this article is to provide five ways of simplifying the supply chain, as ongoing globalisation has brought increased complexity to mostly every aspect of the business world, and supply chains are also affected to a large extent. Overly complex supply chains are not adaptable so many companies are facing failures. The only way left is to reduce complexity in supply chains by using different techniques. Companies with more mature supply
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fast response becomes imperative. Logistics is central for effective and efficient humanitarian assistance to be provided and the operation of humanitarian supply chains has a massive impact on quality and speed of the assistance to be provided. In addition, logistics activities (from purchasing to the last-mile delivery of items) account for a very large share of the cost in a disaster relief operation. Positive improvement on humanitarian supply chain logistics has a great potential in delivering
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Section 1: Synopsis This article talks about the expansion of In-N-Out Burger and the decisions made to improve the inbound logistics of the operations. In-N-Out Burger recently expanded into Nevada and decided that it would be more efficient to build a new 20,000 square foot distribution center in Las Vegas. They feel that in doing this, it will cut down on transportation costs. The closest distribution center is about a three hour drive away located in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles. The
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both customer and supplier based concepts and that for the supplier, the lead time is the time it takes to be paid while the customer lead time is the time it takes from placing the order to the delivery. Both concepts are extremely important to logistics management in that speed of delivery to customers and of payment to suppliers is an element that can place an organization in a competitive stance as order winners. Jones and Towill (1998) stress that organizations today share similar technology
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| Page 1 Inbound freight takes center stage Ford Motor Company Case Study Inbound freight takes center stage Inbound freight takes center stage Contents Snapshot The challenge The solution The rollout Issues encountered Results Logistics finally catches up with ‘lean’ 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 Share this case study Tweet about this case study Follow Viewlocity on Twitter Share this on Linkedin Connect to Viewlocity on Linkedin Share via email Inbound freight takes center stage
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Supply-based Reduction On May, 18, 2004, Robert Ryan met with John Lucas , purchasing director of Transport Corporation at Transport’s corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. “ Your new assignment, as part of your recent transfer to the strategic sourcing manger position, is to make recommendations on how best to utilize information technology in our chassis and body parts supply-base reduction efforts. I expect your recommendations in 2 months,” john said. Company Background: Transport company
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Peanut Plantation 1. What interactions needed to take place among the marketing, manufacturing, logistics and finance departments? Explain the logistics department’s role in the introduction of the new products. Logistics professionals and other knowledge managers realize, however that in spite of all the hype about the Internet, successful organizations must manage order fulfillment to their customers effectively and efficiently to build and sustain competitive advantage and profitability
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