Driving Lean Transport and Logistics Operations at Chandra Transport Corporation
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
Adopting lean practices in transport and logistics areas, particularly for companies like Chandra Transport Corporation (CTC) in India, has some inherent difficulties. Primarily, the fundamental challenge of logistics, which is its complexity and unpredictability, being boosted by the vast...
Disaster Preparedness
Course material - 6 pages - Logistics
Disaster preparedness is a crucial part of preparation for the safety of people in the community and well-being during natural or human-causing disasters. This paper provides a comprehensive understanding of community-based disaster preparedness, its essential elements, and the importance of...
International operations and logistics - Supply chain management
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Alpha, the explosion protection solutions manufacturer, recently faced financial pressure due to some external specific situations, mostly the global downturn in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the company has had to imagine a new supply chain's strategy aiming at improving its global...
Analysis of the operations and supply chain management of Nestlé Company
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The Nestlé report for the first half of 2017 tells us that the net profit increased by 19% to 4.9 billion CHF. In the next chapters, we will try to analyze the role of the supply chain strategy in this success. First, we will define supply chain management, and then we will examine the strategy...
Analysis "OM/SCM in the news" Operations/supply chain management of Tesla Company
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The first article focuses on the importance of using the lithium battery in the automotive sector. This battery represents a great alternative to the use of diesel fuel. The essential component of this battery is the lithium is qualified by the "new gasoil". Consumption demand for this type of...
Chartering Practice and Methods: Case Study Report
Case study - 10 pages - Logistics
You are chartering the manager the following vessel. Run a voyage estimation for the following proposed employments and decide which is the most profitable proposal for your ship. Elaborate on reasons that could affect your choice beyond the direct number result. (...) What express clause(s)...
Gencon Charter Party (1994) - Chartering Practice and Methods
Text commentary - 6 pages - Logistics
Theophilus et al. (2018) explain that ship chartering is fundamentally an agreement that involves the charterer renting a vessel from a shipowner. According to the authors, the agreement typically involves an agreed amount of money representing the reward offered to the shipowner for the use of...
Theory of Constraints
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Logistics
In the late 1970s, Goldratt developed a production and operation management approach which was based on two major strategies. The two strategies include the philosophical principle of continuous improvement and analysis, investigation and creation of solutions to the underlying problems in an...
Supply Chain Management: The Main Groups in the Transport/Logistics Sector
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
In all liberal economies based on the free movement of goods, people and capital, the transport and logistics sector is essential. The logistics sector is also one of the most dynamic in France, representing 10% of French GDP and generating nearly 2 million jobs. For several years, the...
Logistics techniques for international trade
Dissertation - 12 pages - Logistics
Local companies have traded with foreign companies for many years. These business relationships may consist of the buying and selling of goods, but large-scale corporate buyouts and mergers play a role on the international stage as well. Before an agreement is reached between two (international)...
Logistics outsourcing: the current situation and the future
Dissertation - 7 pages - Logistics
In a constantly developing business world, concentrating on your core activity can sometimes become difficult, given the diversity and number of tasks to be accomplished. This explains why company executives have taken a series of measures, including the outsourcing of logistics. Logistics is a...
Logistics Optimisation: The Case of Storage
Case study - 11 pages - Logistics
The logistical organisation, as part of the routing of products, from manufacturing to the points of consumption, is a succession of transport and warehousing phases. Within the framework of the logistical platform, storage is the upstream part of the process, handled by the reception and stock...
The use of recycled materials in pavement construction
Essay - 2 pages - Logistics
The rise in the amount of waste as well as by-products released into the environment has seen the cost of disposing this waste also rise significantly as such necessitating the consideration for alternative use of such material to prevent the extra cost of doing away with ‘waste'. This in...
Logistics Process Services (LPS) Firm Report
Case study - 5 pages - Logistics
LPS firm has transformed in a tremendous way in the transport sector. Its ways of approach to development of transport and integrated logistics is a sign of reshaping of its trade flows. The step this company has taken is yet to make a great contribution to its transport sector. The main aim of...
Logistics Magnagement - Pull and Push Inventory
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The world of business undergoes dynamic changes frequently. These changes occur because of the need for business to grow and survive the competition. Large business companies use various methods to sell their stock. They use various supply chains which will suit them and their customers best...
Logistics assessment
Case study - 3 pages - Logistics
“Supply chain management is concerned with achieving a more cost effective satisfaction to end customer requirements”(Christopher, 2005). Logistics traditionally represent the various activities implemented to handle goods from the supplier to the final customer. Today, these activities...
Reverse logistics
Case study - 3 pages - Logistics
Reverse logistics refers to all operations to the using again products and materials (Kokkinaki et al., 2001). The Council of Logistics Management defined logistics as the process of “planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process...
General information on logistics
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
Logistics is the set of operations that are intended to provide everything, from meeting the basic needs to live, move, fight and for the treatment and evacuation of personnel. It strikes a balance between the place, time and quantity of all necessary factors. Tactics and logistics are two...
Effects of falling from a high altitude
Essay - 10 pages - Logistics
Falls from heights are a significant risk that should be taken seriously. Falls from height can have very different origins. It may be noted that the risk appears and evolves in time according to and depending on certain enabling conditions; it can range from simple in attention on the part of...
Import of machine tools in South Korea: the choice of Inco terms
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The choice of transport solutions and thus a choice of Inco term occur in three stages. The first step is to study the course, flows, technical and commercial constraints. The second is to study the costs, delays and safety of transportation and the third step is to determine the implications...
Analysis of PERT
Essay - 3 pages - Logistics
PERT (or 'Program/Project Evaluation and Review Technique') is a technique for scheduling and controlling programs. This technique was created in the late 1950s by the U.S. Navy in order to save time during the implementation of Polaris missiles with nuclear warheads. The Polaris Project...
Logistic strategies of the companies of luxury - Example of Louis Vuitton
Case study - 42 pages - Logistics
In this paper, we will focus on logistics and strategies of luxury companies. We will also analyze their future prospects. Initially, key concepts and existing models in terms of logistics are defined in the first paragraph. Therefore, one sees three different types of strategies, the offensive,...
Presentation of Supply Chain
Case study - 4 pages - Logistics
Supply Chain is the organization, planning, the control and the execution of the flow of goods from the development and the provisioning, until the production and the distribution towards the final customer to satisfy the requirements of the market with minimal cost and the use of maximum...
The supply chain management (SCM) or management of the logistics chain
Case study - 1 pages - Logistics
We often hear about supply chain management in relation to topics about the transportation of products from one point to another. These points are generally very far away. It could be necessary for the product to be shipped from one country to another or even from one continent to another. The...
HP's supply chain: An interview with a Procurement and Supply Planner
Case study - 4 pages - Logistics
The following report was made in the wake of an interview with Thomas Gobillot, Procurement and Supply Planner at HP in Grenoble in September 2007. The initial focus will be on the HP enterprise and the organization of its supply chain. Then the strategic choices made by HP and the craft of...
The integrated management of the logistic processes (supply chain management)
Case study - 1 pages - Logistics
The development of the supply management chain (SCM) depends on the ability of a company to respond to customer requests. Responding to customer requests has to be done while being able to maintain the economic position of the company through the introduction of new products. By synchronizing a...
Logistics at H&M
Case study - 6 pages - Logistics
Logistics is a process that forms the heart of modern retailing. Currently, supermarkets are going through major strategic developments. Logistics is one of the key factors that can help them to improve their performance. Logistics involves managing the flow of information, material and other...
Environmental consequences of universalization: The maritime transport in the United States
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
While entering a supermarket and by looking at the labels of the various products indicating the source of the manufacturers, we rarely find ‘Made in the USA' labels. A portable DVD costs less than 85 Euros and is manufactured in Singapore; the label of a T-shirt decorated with a character...
Logistics study: Conversion of a rural cottage
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
According to its definition, logistics is a service activity that is designed to manage material flows in an organization by providing and managing resources to meet the needs, economic conditions and quality of services specified by the standard norms of safety and security satisfactorily....
The integrated management of the logistic processes (supply chain management) - published: 23/11/2010
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The supply chain management: A management philosophy The development of the concept of the ?Supply Chain Management' has its roots in the ability of firms to respond to a client's request in an acceptable period of time while still being able maintain its status as a business by...
