...Running head: Transportation and Logistic Chain Ahmed Lajili Ali UB.ID# 0860828 University of Bridgeport Mechanical Engineering Master of science Principle of Logistic ((MEEG 574)) Pr. David Burnell Abstract Purpose: to introduce the issue of the transportation and logistics chains. Finding: outlines how the individual papers affect debate on the nature and development of transportation in the supply chain. Originality: provides a summary of the perspectives studied within the transportation in the supply chain. 1. Introduction My research is on the transportation and logistics chains. Products are transported between different places in different stages within a supply chain. The transportation has a large impact on both responsiveness and efficiency. Faster transportation allows a supply chain to be more responsive but reduces its efficiency within a supply chain (Chopra & Meindle, 2007, p.53). Transportation has a significant impact, because it controls the speed of response and reply as stated in Newton's third law of every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. An example of Amazon is a company that sells products on the internet and uses UPS or FedEx, which is a transportation company that delivers products to customers. This is an example of transportation within a supply chain. In logistic today wrote article for Rosenau...
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...| UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAMBUSINESS SCHOOLDepartment of Marketing | | | | | | | | | | | | | MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (MIB) INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING MARKET Question : Critically describe corporate social responsibility in the context of emerging economies INTRODUTION Definition of the Key Terms Emerging economy: These are rapidly growing and volatile economies of certain Asian and Latin American countries. They promise huge potential for growth but also pose significant political, monetary, and social risks. There are varying ways to define an emerging economy and are fairly standard definition is a country with income per head of population of $ 9,265 or less. Countries big and small can fall within this definition. For example, China, Mexico, Egypt and India is regarded as an economic power house, yet income per head of population is still low, so as an emerging economy it sits alongside much smaller economies such as Tunisia. These are typically economies in transition, moving from a closed to an open economy, as they seek to integrate into the world economy. But this wont necessary be a one way journey, and political or economic turmoil can send them back into their shells, possibly resulting in Sbigger the risk the greater the potential. Corporate Social Responsibility: Is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development...
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...Problem Transportation failure is one of the major problems encountered by Horizon. Orders telexed to 20 warehouses spread around the country. These warehouses will arrange transportation to send products to customers. Different warehouse uses different courier company. Because of these shipments are small, the transportation cost high and the bills will sent to Horizon. Some of the courier services were fast and reliable; others inaccurate and slow. Perhaps because of the various courier service used, Horizon unable to tell customers delivery date. Other than that, the cost of shipping ingredients to plants also high due to long distances depending on the season. Thus, to prevent customers from switching to other brands, Horizon needs to improve delivery service. Factor and Solution Failure in using system approach is one of the reasons why Horizon failed to provide better service to customers. According to system approach theory, Horizon should see things as a whole, instead of individual activities. For example, orders should be all done by Horizon, then Horizon will arranging delivery courier. By doing so, Horizon can use truckload or carload when shipping products to customers because Horizon can gather all orders delivery location and separate them based on areas. This will save some delivery cost. Besides that, Horizon should use only one courier service and the best available to deliver shipments. This can prevent shipments delivers inaccurately and slow, and at...
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...Transportation & Logistics Transportation & Logistics 2030 Volume 1: How will supply chains evolve in an energy-constrained, low-carbon world? PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 Acknowledgements The editorial board of this issue of our Transportation & Logistics 2030 series consisted of the following individuals: PricewaterhouseCoopers European Business School Supply Chain Management Institute Dr. Heiko von der Gracht +49 611 3601 8800 vdgracht@supplyinstitute.org Tobias Gnatzy +49 611 3601 8800 gnatzy@supplyinstitute.org Prof. Dr. Inga-Lena Darkow +49 611 3601 8800 darkow@supplyinstitute.org Klaus-Dieter Ruske +49 211 981 2877 klaus-dieter.ruske@de.pwc.com Dr. Peter Kauschke +49 211 981 2167 peter.kauschke@de.pwc.com Julia Reuter +49 211 981 2095 julia.reuter@de.pwc.com Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery +49 89 5790 5159 elizabeth.montgomery@de.pwc.com We would like to thank the panellists who took part in the Delphi survey that underpins this report. For confidentiality reasons their names will not be mentioned. Special thanks go to Tom Gorman, CEO of CHEP EMEA and Harry Hohmeister, CEO of Swiss International Air Lines, who took the time to share their thoughts and insights with us. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation for the expertise provided by the below listed individuals: Jenny Bailey, Andreas Baur, Nicholas Bell, Thomas Brüderlin, Giorgio Elefante, Richard Gane, Martha Elena Gonzalez, Susanne Klages, Christian Knechtel, Socrates LeptosBourgi, Alexander...
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...Penn State University Press Historical Perspective of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Discipline Author(s): R. Neil Southern Source: Transportation Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 53-64 Published by: Penn State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/transportationj.50.1.0053 Accessed: 08-10-2015 12:36 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Penn State University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Transportation Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 111.68.99.23 on Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:36:12 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Historical Perspective of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Discipline R. Neil Southern Abstract The purpose of this article is to examine the evolution of the study of business logistics and supply chain management from the perspective of one who has participated firsthand in the discipline in industry and academic positions over the past...
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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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...TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Before the explain transportation management system (TMS), its functions and relationship with logistics; it is better to explain what is transportation and why transportation is important for logistics. Business logistics include material management and physical distribution. Material management is movement and storage of materials into company, and physical distribution refers to storage of finished products and movement to the customers. Basically logistics’ definition show that the logistics and movement of materials/ products relations. Also, other important term is transportation, it can be defined as the physical movement of goods, or people from one place to another. All these definitions prove that transportation is the important part of logistics. For the businesses transportation and transportation management is one of the key term because transportation costs are the approximately 50 percent of firm’s total logistics’ costs. Successful business logistics operation depends on successful transportation management. With the developing technologies transportation management has become faster and efficient with the transportation management systems. A Transportation Management System is software which helps to businesses to control process of orders, loads, following and tracking shipments, auditing and payments. Also, TMS helps to manage the supply chain, particularly coordinating and optimizing the movement of products and materials...
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...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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...SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DESIGNATION PROGRAM MODULE THREE Logistics and Transportation ©Supply Chain Management Association Supply Chain Management Professional Designation Program Copyright © 2013 by the Supply Chain Management Association No part of this material in this manual may be reproduced without the prior written consent of the Supply Chain Management Association. 777 Bay Street, Suite 2701, P.O. Box 112, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C8 Tel: (416) 977-7111 Fax: (416) 977-8886 Web Site: www.scmanational.ca. Use of this material is restricted to SCMA and its Provincial/Territorial Institutes for the express purpose of delivering the Supply Chain Management Designation Program. No other use is authorized, expressed, or implied. This material must be used in its entirety. © Supply Chain Management Association Supply Chain Management Professional Designation Program Module Three Logistics and Transportation Information and Overview .................................................................................................... IO – 1 General Information ........................................................................................................ IO – 2 Module Overview ........................................................................................................... IO – 4 Module Readings ............................................................................................................ IO – 7 Session and Reading...
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...I. Nature of Business Echo Global Logistics, Inc. is a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, delivered on a proprietary technology platform, serving the transportation and logistics needs of its clients. Echo’s web-based technology platform compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 24,000 transportation providers to serve its clients’ shipping and freight management needs. The Company has become a leading contender among 3PLs and has been listed in Inbound Logistics' Top 100 3PL Providers. In 2011, Echo has procured transportation and provided logistics services for more than 22,700 clients across a wide range of industries, such as manufacturing, construction, consumer products and retail. SERVICES Echo provides transportation services for shipping including: * Truckload (TL) * Small Parcel * Inter-Modal * Domestic Air * International * Expedited Main logistics services include: * Rate Negotiation * Carrier Management * Routing Compliance * Shipment Execution and Tracking * Freight Bill Audit * Payment and Performance Management Clients * Guthy Renker * Elkay * Daktronics * Archway * Culligan * Samuel Strapping Echo Global Logistics Daily Transportation Management Operations II. Value Chain Analysis Logistics Echo Global Logistics took a nontraditional approach to supporting its rapid growth early on by enlisting the services...
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...rationales behind the robust interaction between different nations and thus facilitated globalisation (Levinson, 2006). The aim of this discussion is to present the nature of containerisation and how the innovative use of containers transformed overtime. This case study will draw up real world examples on logistics on a global scale. The latter half of this discussion will explore the advantages of using containers to transport goods via sea, road and rail. Containerisation Containerisation is an inter-modal system which has been used over half a century to transport the universal cargo and non-bulk products in containers which are reinforced steel boxes (ECMT, 2005). The ease of using containers allows the flexibility to use a multi-modal system to transport the containers through road, rail, sea and air (Lowe, 2005). These containers are regulated by the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) body which sets the foundation to ensure the containers are eligible to be loaded and conserved unharmed onto container ships, railroad cars, planes and trucks. Containerisation has revolutionised the logistic industry in imports and exports, in transportation of goods to a degree that it has diminished costs to an insignificant point in the twentieth century. One of the justifications for this inter-modal system was to expand storage capacity within the steel containers so that it can maintain space for economies of scale (Wetherly & Otter, 2008). History &...
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...Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 1673 - 1686, 2005 EVALUATION OF THE DECENTRALIZED PLANT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN THE LOGISTICS OF THAI CEMENT Pairoj RAOTHANACHONKUN Graduate Student Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nagaoka University of Technology 1603-1 Kamitomioka-machi, Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan Fax: +81-258-47-9650 E-mail: pairoj@stn.nagaokaut.ac.jp Shinya HANAOKA Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering School of Civil Engineering Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand Fax: +66-2-524-5509 E-mail: hanaoka@ait.ac.th Abstract: Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCC) faced stiff competition after the economic crisis in 1997, decided to close most of their warehouses for the change of logistics system. SCC presently operates five cement plants located whole regions in Thailand with except of the northeast region where three warehouses are still operated. This plant distribution system can be called the decentralized plant distribution system. Which plant distribution system is more efficient for SCC as the logistics strategy between centralized and decentralized? Based on this background, total logistics costs of both systems are formulated and calculated. In addition, the locations of a single warehouse without plant operation are evaluated using linear programming to minimize total logistics costs, which calculated with and without environmental cost...
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...Logistics Name Course Institution Professor Date Abstract Logistics management implies to the process of controlling the movement of goods from the manufactures to the ultimate consumers. Activities in logistics management involves management of transportation inside a company as well as outside it, the handling of materials, management of inventory, warehousing, fulfillment of orders, the management of fleet and supply and demand planning (Commonwealth, 2007). Additionally it involves customer service, sourcing, production arrangement, packaging and procurement. There are three levels of planning and implementation that logistics management form part they include; tactical, operational and strategic level. Basically logistics management encompasses the process of amalgamation that ensures coordination between all activities that involve transportation and merging transport activities with other activities in business for instance marketing, information technology, manufacturing and finance. In this case it may be understood that logistics management is constituted in the control of supply chain processes of goods. These processes involves the arrangement, execution and control in an effective and efficient way product storage and services aimed at meeting expectations from customers (John and Langley, 2002). Activities of online logistics for instance operations that involve sourcing, international transportation as well as...
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...The Logistics Industry in Turkey November 2013 1 Disclaimer Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency (ISPAT) submits the information provided by third parties in good faith. ISPAT has no obligation to check and examine this information and takes no responsibility for any misstatement or false declaration. ISPAT does not guarantee the accuracy, currency, reliability, correctness or legality of any information provided by third parties. ISPAT accepts no responsibility for the content of any information, news or article in the document and cannot be considered as approving any opinion declared by third parties. ISPAT explicitly states that; it is not liable for any loss, negligence, tort or other damages caused by actions and agreements based on the information provided by third parties. Deloitte accepts no liability to any party who is shown or gains access to this document. The opinions expressed in this report are based on Deloitte Consulting’s judgment and analysis of key factors. However, the actual operation and results of the analyzed sector may differ from those projected herein. Deloitte does not warrant that actual results will be the same as the projected results. Neither Deloitte nor any individuals signing or associated with this report shall be required by reason of this report to give further consultation, to provide testimony or appear in court or other legal proceedings, unless specific arrangements thereof have...
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...Introduction The Trucking industry in China provides road freight and cargo transportation services using trucks, cars, trailers and other road vehicles (ACMR,2). Trucking is a primary mode of overland freight, and it plays an important role in the whole area of transportation. As trucking is flexible, simple and convenient in freight, it has more advantages than by rail, air transportation for short distance transportation. 2. Analysis of trucking industry in China Since 1980s, China's economy has been developing rapidly, as well as the level of technology, which improved the network. With the commodity economy becoming increasingly active, inter-regional economic interaction and exchange of goods has become more frequent, and the average transportation distance also increased. The reform changed the planned economy and the dominance of state-owned transport enterprises in the transportation market situation. Market diversification has become more plentiful, in order to meet the new demands of the national economy in the trucking industry (Cheng, 94). Transportation market diversification and rapid development both contributed to providing goods vehicle loading, freight forwarders and shipping information emerged freight services. These services include traditional truckload, LTL and container, large bulky cargo, dangerous goods transport, and express transportation, social storage transportation services are also occasional established. The rapid development of the transport...
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