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...
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,...
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 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 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...
Carrefour's logistics strategy
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The term strategy comes from the Greek -statos-, having as meaning -army- with -agen- which means -to drive-, and then from the Italian -strategia-. It is usual to associate this term strategy with an exclusive approach undertaken by the General Management of any company. There are many, and...
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...
Logistics and Supply Chain Practices
Case study - 8 pages - Computer science
Lean thinking is essential to improve supply chain management. This is because lean thinking ensures things are done just as they should. As an example, Toyota has demonstrated superior results with regard to quality, cost and lead-time compared to most (if not all) of its competitors. This...
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...
Maximizing Profitability using Lean Logistics
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Lean logistics is a concept that outlines ways through which generation of wastes can be reduced in supply chain systems. The supply chain encompasses all the processes involved from production to consumption. Lean logistics principles aims at minimizing the cost incurred from waste...
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...
How tactics and logistics contributed to the victory of the British in the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
This paper will discuss how British tactics and logistics contributed to their success in the Waikato campaign of the New Zealand Wars in 1863-64. Geoffrey Parker, in his book ‘The Cambridge History of Warfare' explains his five fundamental principles of western warfare. These are: a...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Logistics planning technique and applications
Case study - 12 pages - Logistics
Exercise 1: We have to solve a linear programming system, concerning a cost transport optimisation. To minimise the total transport cost, we have to use the linear programming mathematical model. Exercise 2: We have to find an appropriate place for a new distribution centre by using the Gravity...
Supply Chain and Logistics Managements' evolution
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Globally, supply chain management (SCM) is the whole set of tools and methods that are used by managers in order to improve the supply chain of a company. Indeed, supply chain management is regarded as a process in which planning, implementing and controlling, allow the companies to satisfy the...
Logistics, research report: luggage flow issues in airports
Essay - 12 pages - Logistics
An airport terminal building provides all major passenger services, such as ticket sales, passenger check-in, baggage handling, and security. Inside the terminal, airline employees make flight reservations for travelers, issue seat assignments and coordinate aircraft boarding. All these services...
The Role of Logistics in Sustainable Development
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
In 1987, the Commission of Brundtland focused on the concept of sustained development. This concept continued to serve as the central element of the Summit of Rio which took place in 1992, and gave rise to the view that 'sustainable development is development which makes it possible for the...
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...
Group SEB: Logistics platform
Thesis - 21 pages - Logistics
Present in over 120 countries, Group SEB is now a world leader in two specific areas: small household electrical equipment and cookware. This position gives it a specific profile of equilibrium in terms of products, trademarks, geographical location, and distribution channels. The global market...
Logistics gateway to Europe
Case study - 28 pages - Logistics
The project for a logistics gateway to Europe is about to set up a physical distribution system into the European market. The distribution system has to be developed for a non-European company with a new or existing product in a European market. Therefore we had to chose a couple of...
Global logistics and assignment
Essay - 8 pages - Logistics
Global logistics and assignment: With respect to the manufacturer of seats for an automotive assembler, the order qualifiers are the conditions that make the products available on a specific market. Without the order qualifiers the product couldn't be sold on a market in accordance...
DELL: Logistics research report
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
Dell has revolutionized the industry in the last 20 years, to make computing accessible to customers around the globe, including businesses, institutional organizations and individual consumers. Because of Dell's direct model, and the industry's response to it, information technology is...
Logistics Management- Tesco's Supply Chain
Case study - 6 pages - Logistics
Tesco is one of the most important grocery and general merchandising retail chains in the world, and the largest British retailer. It was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen in East London. The company had a turnover of 59.4 billion for 2009. During the three last decades, the group has increased its...
Green or environmental logistics
Essay - 5 pages - Logistics
For a number of years, environmental issues have been a growing concerns in society, particularly in the business practices. Under influences of lobby, customers or stakeholders, the idea of sustainable development and of ecological respect has become more popular. Thus, as many other activities...
Global Logistics: Ikea's global supply chain model
Essay - 17 pages - Logistics
The decisions regarding the supply chain design highly depends of the kind of products or services a company is dealing with. Issues such as the sourcing location or the distribution method will be affected by a whole range of requirements given by the nature of the products. In the first part...
Career endeavors: A look at a career in logistics
Case study - 5 pages - Logistics
This report will include several aspects of a logistics career field in an appealing approach. First an introductory paragraph labeled Art Teacher to Logistics Major will explain the reasoning for my writing. Following that, the next header, History of Logistics, is self...
Improving the most important logistics- Changing the supply chain of International Federation of Red Cross Red crescent Societies (IFRC)
Essay - 7 pages - Logistics
Logistics management is “that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements”....
