Essays on Logistics

The United States military expeditions in Iraq began in high gear. The military operations quickly brought down Sadam Hussein’s reign. un- able to counter the power of the, United States of America combatants the Iraq soldiers resorted to, counterrisurgency operations, often staged on complex urban terrain. The change in venue and operational tempo left U.s Troops, in their lightly armored vehicles exposed to road side attacks from improvised explosive devices. Michael J. Sullivan (2009:56-67)
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Introduction

Logistics management is a crucial part of any manufacturing or trading organization’s success rate; the basic essence of logistics management is to organize the movement of goods and services from one place to another by different means of transport such as sea, rail, air or road. For an organization that requires its products to be transported or shipped to another location or a country, logistics costs play a crucial role in the balance sheet. This case deals with the importance of adding logistics costs in the profitability reports of organizations and their products and the reason why it Continue reading...

Introduction

Logistics management is an essential part of any manufacturing or trading organization’s success ratio; the basic function of logistics management is to supervise the movement of goods and services from one place to another by different means of transport such as sea, rail, air or road. Logistics management is a critical part of the supply chain management that plans, controls and executes the effective, efficient forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services and necessary information between the point of origin and the point of destination, in order to meet the customer’s needs (Importance of Logistics, Continue reading...

Logistics refers to the process whereby a firm plans, executes, and controls the mobility of its assets, which includes goods and people, in order to achieve the set objectives. On the other hand, supply chain management (SCM) refers to the process of controlling the supply-side of the business with the aim of remaining competitive in the market and, to maximize on customer value.
Supply chain management originated from the logistics concept. However, it is different from logistics in numerous ways. Logistics puts more emphasis on individual business. Through external and internal control and planning, it ensures that the firm Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

This assessment investigates green freight transportation challenges and their impact on the freight transportation industry in Australia. Its aim is to show that these freight transportation challenges can be overcome and ultimately eliminated by incorporating green, i.e. sustainable technologies, and improved practices into a more effective supply chain technology. Utilizing published findings, this assessment proposes rational, workable recommendations, based on known fiscal and environmental data, to Australian green freight transportation challenges. This assessment relies on methods as diverse as surveys, mathematical research, public health statistics, chemical assays, industry studies, and government case studies. Data extrapolated from scientific research point Continue reading...

Importance of logistics management and globalization

Introduction
Logistics management is an important part of any manufacturing company’s success rate; it basically controls and manages the movement of goods from one place to another, via rail, sea, air or road. Logistics management is that part of the supply chain management that plans, controls and implements the effective, efficient forward and reverse flow and storage of services, goods and necessary information between the point of origin and the point of destination, in order to meet the client’s requirements (Importance of Logistics, 2012).
In simple words, if an Indian company wants to buy capital equipment from Continue reading...

Supply chain management is one of the processes that control the flow of goods and services. It entails the storage and movement of work-in-progress inventory, raw materials, as well as finished goods from production to consumption level. It is worth nothing that supply chain management incorporates a lot of networks, businesses and channels. Supply chain management focuses on supply management and purchasing operations. There are key purchasing operations and supply management issues. In identifying the key purchasing operations and supply management issues, it is crucial to comprehend the fact that the entire activities are a process (Cetinkaya, 2010). Supply Continue reading...

The Challenges Faced by Military, Naval Support Transportation and Flow of Support During the Past Wars.

Lack of Navel Vessels that were Fast
The Navy is a key branch of the military. This arm of the military specializes in water combat, and it is essential for all nations across the globe to have a well trained and equipped naval force. This is because it serves to compliment the efforts of all the other branches of the military (Creveld 2004, p. 12). In fact, a well equipped naval force facilitates the putting up of a formidable fight when the need arises. Over the years, countries have engaged in a broad range of naval warfare. As a Continue reading...

The supply chain of J.C. Penny’s organization is a network of dealers, distributors, transporters, storage amenities and providers who takes part in producing, delivering, and selling of the products to consumers. The three key elements of supply chain are supply, manufacturing and distribution. The supply chain is also used to illustrate how numerous procedures supplies one another. The organization’s plan focuses on the whole aspirations that a company pursues while a strategy chain deals with the genuine operations of the business and the route to use so as to accomplish a specific goal. J.C. Penny’s organization Continue reading...

Introduction

Fought in the year 1863, within the town of Gettysburg, the Battle of Gettysburg remains as one of the significant events that took place during the period of American Civil War. In fact, the war became a significant “turning point” for the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought by the Confederate and Union Forces, which had distinct structures with regards to their operations (Abnett 22).

Size and composition

On matters regarding size and composition, the Union forces comprised of more than five hundred men some of whom where volunteer army men authorized by the congress during the period of Continue reading...

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Supply Chain and Logistics Industry in UAE Economy
Article Summary
The greatest contribution of any organization is the supply chain and logistics which increases the pace of globalization. (Business Intelligence, 2012) The freedom score of the United Arab Emirates’ is 71.4% making it the 28th freest in the 2014 index. It is for this reason the UAE is ranked second in the Middle East. With an objective of further growth, the UAE recently organized a Global Logistics and Supply Chain Summit in Dubai. The main aim of the meeting was to address the challenges which are faced by the Continue reading...

Supply chain management is very vital in the oil and gas industry. The Global Supply Chain Forum outlined that supply chain management would be incorporating major business processes in all the value chains ranging from the original raw material suppliers to the end consumers of the products manufactured. The stakeholders of the supply chain gain value owing to the top notch products, information and services created by the processes (Lambert & Cooper, 2000). The supply chain is ever changing. This modern era brings in some challenges that need to be considered in order to coordinate the system effectively. In this Continue reading...

- Coordination of the various logistics activities can be achieved in a variety of ways. Within the context of logistics organizational structure, explain each of the following:
- Process-based versus market-based versus channel-based
Process-based, market-based and channel-based are all generic strategies in the logistic. Under the process-based approach, logistics is managed as a collective of activities and a value added chain. It focuses on the efficiency in all logistics activities such as purchasing, inventory and manufacturing among others. The market-based need partial group activities in different business departments. It focuses on the interdepartmental cooperation when carrying out various tasks. Continue reading...

Introduction

Supply chain management is a term that is very common in many businesses enterprises. It is a term that has been subjected to a variety of definition but in its simplest form, supply chain management is a management philosophy whereby manufacturers or service providers utilize various integration and partnership efforts with suppliers to reduce the cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated logistics, supplier integration, integrated purchasing strategy, supply chain management, value chain management, Just-In –Time (JIT) logistics, supply chain synchronization and lean production are some terms that are often mentioned alongside supply chain management. Continue reading...

The Rise of Modern Logistics

Third Party Logistic Companies (3PL Companies) has served as an important link of businesses worldwide. Modern 3PL Companies can be traced back to Malcolm McLean, an American trucker, who was the first to conceptualize and put into practice the modern intermodal container. Being an owner of a small trucking firm, McLean has a first-hand experience with logistics. Accordingly, he observed that he had to wait for days before their cargo gets loaded and his trucks have to spend more time in the port than they are on the road. Similarly, the cargo ships are also experiencing the same predicament. Continue reading...

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- Introduction
Supply Chain Management (SCM) has gained a significant presence in the industry and influences the success of an organization giving it a competitive advantage. All manufacturing companies irrespective of size, manufacturing process or the product need a controlled flow of products and services from suppliers to manufacturing and then distribution to the final customer. There are different dimensions of SCM that include customer relationship, strategic partnerships, and information sharing. An important model for SCM monitoring is SCOR or Supply Chain Operations model. Most leading companies Continue reading...

Literature Review:

Reverse Logistics has been gaining importance of all sorts of businesses all across the globe. Tremendous research activities are coming up daily, suggesting new frameworks and models suitable for each business type and situation. Warehousing and Reverse Logistics are important to each other as they are in the direct relationship. The major issues in this regard are the lesser dedicated space for the returned items, too much paper work involved in getting the items back to the warehouse and from the warehouse to the production units, too much extensive process for tracking the reasons of return to the warehouse, Continue reading...

Supply Chain Management

In every business, there are some suppliers as well as some customers. For our suppliers we are customers and for our customers we are suppliers. Moreover, our suppliers also have suppliers and our customers have customers too. Therefore, the concept of supply chain management is to manage the coordination in flow of materials or service from our supplier's supplier to our customer's customer. The aim of supply chain management is to generate information from company's supply chain activities to gain competitive advantage by reducing cost and through increasing sales because of the customer satisfaction (Boyson, Harrington, & Corsi, 2004). With Continue reading...

Introduction

Every logistics company deals with different customers and companies. That can cause problems especially when the company department does not have enough employees who can handle the big amount of documents from different customers. This research the causes of documentation delay in freight forwarder department in Al Madina logistics
- As a manager/an employee at Al Madina , how do you feel the a documentation delay in the organization affects the output?
The managers felt that delays of documentation affect the customer in negative way since they are not satisfied with the industry. As will it affect back office operations Continue reading...

Introduction

The word “inventory” has been defined in different ways. One definition that has been chosen and seems to be more suitable, “Inventories refer to stockpiles of raw materials, components, supplies, work in process, and finished goods that result at various points throughout the production and logistics channel of a company (Muller, 2003).
A proper inventory management is of great importance n any business organization. The future of business organizations relies on how the top management specifies and takes into account inventory management in relationship with the objectives of the company. Some of the primary reasons why business organizations hold Continue reading...

Stiff competition in the present market has compelled business enterprises or firms to invest in as well as concentrate on logistics program planning. The advancement in technology, as well as transportation technologies, have resulted in further development of logistics planning. Logistics network entails suppliers, warehouses, manufacturing centers, distribution centers as well as retail outlets. Moreover, raw materials, inventory of work-in-process as well as finished products, which flow between organizational facilities (Luo 237-239).
Logistics planning always considers every component, which has an effect on the cost. Logistics planning plays a significant role in conforming product to the requirements of customers. Continue reading...

A Reflective Report on a Case Study on IKEA and GEFCO

Introduction
The report is based on personal reflections about the case study carried out by a group of five. The case study focuses on two organizations; IKEA and GEFCO. IKEA is a set of multinational companies that designs and sells furniture to its customers. GEFCO on the other is a logistics organization that operates in the United Kingdom. It deals with automotive logistics but in recent times it has diversified to include other areas such as inbound and outbound logistics. The two corporations may seem unrelated but on a broad analysis the two will appear to be similar in Continue reading...

There has been a growing need for proper waste management strategies in various growing co-operations in the world. This is due to the emphasis that has been made by various international environmental conservation organizations on the need for companies to provide a favorable working and living environmental for people in the world. The need for environmental friendly integrations is driven by the need to ensure that there are no further negative impacts that are made on the environment due to poor waste management and other wastes emitted from companies in production such as carbon monoxide emit ion and other Continue reading...

United Parcel Services (UPS) is the largest known organization for package delivery service provider. UPS is one of the major organizations that have enhanced supply chain strategy on most businesses globally. Over the years, UPS Company has been keen on transport and shipment in nearly all states globally. Today, the company has enhanced their strategies of shipment and logistics several ways making it world’s number one Shipment and Logistics Company. This paper will focus on the effect of UPS on three major states which include North America, Canada and the USA. In general, UPS deals with freight forwarding, Continue reading...

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Different agencies exist at the county level to provide important services that would be too expensive when catered for by private enterprises. These agencies have different levels of financial and logistical capacity and as such, may enter into mutual aid agreements to continue operating more efficiently. Escambia County Emergency Medical Services (ECEMS) is a provider of a Critical Care, Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support and Bariatric Transport. It is also a division of the Escambia County Department of Public Safety. By this virtue, ECEMS is a fitting example of these county agencies. There are agencies such as Continue reading...

Supply chain management and lean concepts have been recognized in many industries as a significant cost reduction exercise (Smart, 2005). To define
Supply Chain Management is a broader term that encompasses planning, management and execution of all activities involved in sourcing, procurement, and logistics management activities. It also includes coordination and collaboration with various partners like suppliers, intermediaries, service providers, and customers. In short supply chain management integrates supply and demand management activities within the organization.
Lean is a systematic approach to enhance the customer value by identifying and eliminating nonproductive time, effort and materials which are called “waste”, Continue reading...

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Introduction and Background

The success of many organizations, private, public, and military, majorly depends on the ability to manage information. The concept of supply chain is a broad one and involves the flow of material, information, payments, and services. The flow starts from suppliers of raw material, then to factories and finally to the end consumers. IT provides effective solutions to supply chain problems. The computerization of supply chain activities helps to provide certain advantages in the concept of supply chain (Supply Chain Management, n.d.). Such advantages include; parallel processing, simulation capabilities, electronic documents and communications systems, information sharing and Continue reading...

Wesco Aircraft

Wesco aircraft, Valencia, is at the forefront in providing and distributing supply chain management solutions in the aerospace industry. In this regard, Wesco has the responsibility to produce and develop product and service solutions that meet the diverse demands that customers face. The company has approximately over 8,500 businesses in the commercial aerospace, ground vehicle and defense aerospace. The customer base also spans to industrial, repair and operations as well as the maintenance markets. The firm has the responsibility of ensuring that all components used in the industry is operational in most of the days and is only Continue reading...

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Reverse Logistics
1. Reverse Logistics vs. Normal Logistics
Reverse logistics has been perceived predominantly as the process of product recycling. However, better and innovative perceptions concerning reverse logistics are evolving with the passage of time. CLM (Council of Logistics Management) defines reverse logistics as follows:
“The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal”. Reverse logistics is completely different from the Continue reading...

Intermodal Transport System as a Solution to Dynamic Supply Chain Demands

Intermodal transportation is one of the prime trends of supply chains impacting the contemporary transportation industry. In the recent past, higher demand, greater government oversight, higher fuel costs, and driver shortages have all squeezed capacity in the transportation industry (“Vielhaber” n.p.). All of these situations have multiple implications on everything ranging from timing of cargo to pricing. Therefore, executives on the other hand are seeking for a solution to achieve and maintain a supply chain that is cost-effective. One solution that they have found is intermodal transportation (“Vielhaber” n.p.). In the modern global community, it has become outdated for Continue reading...

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FedEx is a logistics company. It is a large company and has global presence. FedEx serves different market segments such as large organizations, businesses, small firms, and individual customers. The above ad shows how FedEx provides logistics services to individual customers. It has made world very accessible through FedEx. Transferring goods and documents through FedEx to different countries is like transferring it through different windows. It has made transferring document, gifts and other goods among different countries very easy. Not only this, it has made transferring these goods, gifts and documents among different continents very easy as well.
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Business

McDonalds’ Supply Chain Profitability
McDonald’s is one of the leading when it comes to food service. The company has 35,000 branches that serve almost 70 million customers throughout 100 countries each day (aboutmcdonalds.com). Such success may not be possible without well-managed supply chain strategies.
The effectiveness of the company’s supply chain management (SCM) strategy is the reason that it has been in operation since 1955 as an international company. In fact, its SCM ranked #2 last year (usfranonline.com). Since McDonalds do not own any distribution centers or factories, it tracks each and every supply from it Continue reading...

When Keith Oliver, a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, used the term "supply chain management" it entered the public domain for the first time in 1982 (Brigham, 2014). Common and accepted definitions of supply chain management are managing the upstream and downstream flow of materials, finished goods or related information among supplier, manufacturer, reseller and final consumer is supply chain management. Another definition is “Supply chain management is the systematic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of Continue reading...

The business processes in view of an increasingly technology based initiatives have given rise to a more efficient and organized execution of planning by an organization.
In view of the subject matter project that is focused on discussing and evaluating the effect of process technology and e-business on logistical and operational capacity and capability of an organization.

Since, the company operates in more than 160 countries and with more than 300+ brands, the logistical and operational capacity impact by the process technology and e-business will be critically evaluated.
The focus will be on evaluating the efficiency in terms of Continue reading...

Logistics Industry Overview

The manufacturers are eager to reduce the cost of production, and they are prepared to source the materials from any corner of the world if the costs are contained. The international trade agreements and globalized scenarios make exchange of goods between countries smoother. On the other hand, individual customers too do not hesitate to place orders with far off suppliers. Rise on the internet based services and e-commerce has made overseas suppliers search for ways to supply to remote customers. These changes in the international /domestic trade and commerce practices drive the logistics companies to adapt to the situation. Continue reading...

Systems engineering is a discipline, which is involved in the design and management of complex systems over their lifespan (Blanchard, 2008). An operations coordinator is a person in charge of organizing and coordinating the activities of different individuals in a company. An operations coordinator deals with many individuals in his work. The coordinator has to ensure that all the activities being carried out by each individual or department work in harmony to meet the overall objective of the whole organization. A coordinator has to have good management skills in order to work properly. The operations coordinator also has to Continue reading...

Al Madina Logistics Services is an Oman based private company that leads the supply chain sector. Some of the services of supply-chain services include transportation, container yard, professional logistics consultancy, warehousing, freight forwarding, and transportation. The warehouse and distribution centre .consists of ultra modern facilities with strategic locations in Oman. The Warehouse has storage facilities and handling systems. The value-added services provided at ALMS include sorting, inkjet coding, bar coding, quarantine management, and damage product destruction.

Manager/ Employee

1. Documentation delays
Some of the challenges that AlMadina faces in Oman include slow processes, ineffective sharing of customer data, heavy paperwork, and Continue reading...

INFORMATION SHARING AND DECISION MAKING IN HUMANITARIAN NGOS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Information Sharing and Decision Making in Humanitarian NGOs Supply Chain Management
4. Information Sharing
4.1. Concept and importance
Information sharing is one main driver in supply chain management, representing the basis of the entire supply chain management, as it provides the required data for the supply chain management (SCM) to make decisions (Ma, 2011). In a supply chain management, information sharing represents a form of coordination, connecting the members of the supply chain through various available technologies (Choi, 2010). Ma (2011, p. 876) defines information sharing in supply chain as an activity that facilitates the communication among partners on Continue reading...

The topic of research is “Issues in Supply Chain Management”. The research study on this topic will give an understanding about supply chain management and its various facets. How supply chain management is important to businesses and what are major issues faced by the organizations in effective supply chain management. This study will be based on case studies and their analysis.
Supply Chain Management is a relatively new concept. It is often confused with logistics function of the organization. Logistics is only a function of the supply chain management. It includes other functions like sourcing, conversion and procurement as Continue reading...

Introduction

Contemporary business environment places a lot of pressure on the costs, which the companies encounter to deliver the product or service to their final customer. The reality shows that in the majority of cases the major cost is attributed to the Supply Chain Management (SCM) operations, such as procurement, manufacturing and distribution. The impact of these costs on the profitability of the product is paramount, and the issue is especially sensitive when it comes to low margin products. With that in mind, management of operations and continuous improvement mentality is critical for the success of the companies (Peng 2014). Continue reading...