with an unprecedented level of technological integration. (Janah and Wilder, 1997) ince its inception in 1973, Federal Express Corporation ('FedEx') had transformed itself from an express delivery company to a globallogistics and supply-chain management company. Over the years, the Company had invested heavily in IT systems, and with the launch of the Internet in 1994, the potential for further integration of systems to provide services throughout its customers' supplychains became enormous. With
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decided the by top management might include. The philosophy of the company’s logistics strategy. The routes that the company will serve. The type and size of vessels used. Fleet replacement policy (owning and chartering). Flag policy. Membership of alliances and conferences. In house ship management or contracted out. Marketing and pricing strategies, in house or independent agency. Financial performance. Having established the policy the board will delegate the management of these functions to
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SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY A CASE STUDY OF BARILLA SpA. Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 2. Body of the repot 3. conclusion Executive Summary Barilla SpA is the case study that I will be examining in this paper presentation. I will be looking critically into some of the issues why the Just-in-time-distribution (JITD) program that was proposed by Brando Vitali who had served as Barilla’s directors of logistics before Maggiali had met a strong resistance
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Venezuela, Mexico, and France (Natura plans to enter the US market in 2009 has been postponed due to the global economic crisis). The sales volume has been R$ 4,302 million in 2007. R$ 108.4 million has been invested in innovation (information system, logistic and R&D) and CSR during 2007. Natura set up two company motions: 1) cosmetics as a means for self-knowledge and to promote well-being and 2) human relations as a way to express life. The reason for being is creating and selling products and services
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COLD CHAIN LOGISTICS- THE INDIAN PERSPECTIVE RAKESH MEHROTRA MANAGING DIRECTOR/CONCOR Agricultural Sector The Agriculture Sector of Indian Economy supports approx. half a billion people and provides employment to 52 % of the workforce. Yet the share of agriculture in our GDP has been showing a steady decline over the years. This is basically due to the fact that our agrarian economy continues to suffer from vagaries of nature on
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Cost Reduction in Logistics Operations Vijay Ramamoorthy Roll No: 173 PGDM, Batch 19 A Project Report on “COST REDUCTION IN LOGISTICS OPERATIONS” A Project Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT (PGDM) Submitted by: Vijay Ramamoorthy PGDM, Roll No. 173, 19th Batch (2013-2015) Submitted on 01st July, 2014 Under the guidance of Mr. P. Meenakshi Sundaram Project guide (Deputy Manager, Logistics, CavinKare)
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delay of shipment may not be a new issue and not regularly happened; however, this problem has been brought up to the writer’s attention since it can create a substantially significant loss to the firm. In this report, we will cover the case of the logistic problem from the Bunge Company. The case was about the raw material shortage, regarding to the supplier’s shipment delay. The company imports the raw material, soybean, from Brazil to China. The interesting issue about this case is the decision-making
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Italian pasta manufacturer, is experiencing amplified levels of inefficiencies and rising costs due to variability in demand from its distributors. In order to bring things back into place and to improve margins, Giorgio Magialli, the Director of Logistics at Barilla wants to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system that was proposed by his predecessor Brando Vitali. This system is entirely different from the existing setup and is being opposed by both the distributors and Barilla’s Sales
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outsource the plants transportation operations. Mission Foods saw the opportunity to drive down overall transportation costs while expanding to meet the growing demand for its products in North America. Penske soon identified Mission Foods’ greatest logistic challenge was that each plant was using its own set of operating procedures & mode selection processes to manage inbound & outbound transportation. This prevented Mission Foods from maximizing its existing transportation network infrastructure
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fit in? 14 4.2 Did it lead them to having a sustainable competitive advantage? 14 Introduction FedEx started out in its early years as a true pioneer. Originally an express delivery company, it transformed itself to a global logistics and supply chain management company. The CEO of FedEx saw enormous potential in connecting their business with IT. For instance, in the 80’s, FedEx gave away more than 100.000 PC’s with proprietary FedEx software, linking customers with FedEx’s ordering and tracking
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