Grainger: Reengineering the China/U.S. Supply Chain

According to market players in the maritime transport, inland logistics are one of the most significant segments still enhancing economic signals in order to add value and enhance profitability. Bundling is regarded as one of the most probable solutions on ways to enhance the intermodal transport and could also improve competitiveness. As a result, the concept or process enables resolving suitable intermodal conditions since it can be utilized in situations where container flows are not economically adequate to meet the needs of a direct service.

If you are able, find a solution for the delivery of parts. I would like to know if there is a delivery option in which I do not have to sacrifice as much money for parts because it is constantly annoying that I have to deal with these expensive transportation fees. They are costing us a big portion of our operations and I would like to value it at a lower price if possible.

Second, costs could be reduced by consolidating deliveries so as to eliminate the additional cost of transporting less-than-full truck loads. Additionally, packaging could be standardized so as to reduce changeover times on the production floor. Should none of these options (or any appropriate combination of them) be acceptable, Kemps may need to consider discontinuing the relationship with the customer.

The grainger.com website, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2007 had, until recently been operating at a negative margin, with a write-off of $125 million in 2001, grainger.com has gone back to the basics. Yet, one of Grainger’s most significant core competencies will always be with the company’s knack to efficiently manage logistics, supply chain and warehousing of over 188,000 products in 9 distribution centers, and over 450 branch based stores.

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Management Group: Reconstructing the Supply Chain After a Cross-Border Factory Relocation: Analysis of a Case Study

Today we are going to explain and possibly solve Lynden Transport’s problem of more inbound freight than out-bound. While our solution is not necessarily out-bound freight in the true sense, it is a way for the company to save money. This problem is not unique to Lynden Transport and with them possibly leading the way in the use of our solution, they can continue to be at the forefront of the transportation industry.

Today for large multinational corporations (MNC) to build or retain their competitive advantage requires effective methods in managing the global supply chain in order to assess their raw resources, inventory supplies and factory productivity. MNC look to global sourcing for several reasons including: scarcity or high cost of local raw materials, low cost of labor in developing countries, and to increase market share into new geographical areas. Effectively managing the global supply chain is quite literally the lifeblood of an MNC that produces goods to be sold around the world.

Our approach was to facilitate the demand with respect to the market. We penetrated the market by building factory in Fardo and building warehouses to the respective regions, Caleopeia, Sorange, Entworpe, Tyran. Another component that we had to consider was finding the optimal cost to increase market share and increase our profit margin. Discussion on the logistics will be discussed thoroughly, which affected our decision points and our overall outcome. There are a few questions we needed to answer before we built a road map to our strategy i.e. figuring out where to build the factory and warehouse, estimate the demand of the four regions and Fargo region, should we change capacity, adjust ordering point with respect to quantity, and also

Once the shipments reach an Australian port they are transported, to one of APL’s five distribution centres, by truck due to low accessibility of rail at Australian ports placing a reliance on road transport (The Allen Consulting Group 2010, p.5). The shipments are deconsolidated and packed into LTL or FTL for delivery direct to outlets; or multiple outlets along a route using trucks (APL Logistics 2016b). Additionally, the introduction of omni-channel marketing by Billabong (Barrie 2015) has necessitated frequent and small parcel delivery in a timely fashion. This function is handled by Star Track Express, who employ a combination of air freight and light truck as modal choices (Star Track Express 2012). Air freight is ideal for the movement of small parcels and time sensitive items (Coyle et.al 2009, p.406) that online purchases demand. Light truck is ideal for pickup and delivery to multiple end customer locations (Coyle et.al 2009, p.403), at the cost required.

Recently, China and Colombia trade relations are stronger than before. Colombian Java International sells their coffee to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai in China and the rate of export products is increasing. Therefore, our team suggests Colombia exports their products from Tumaco seaport to China’s Hong Kong port and Shanghai port by using Maersk Group shipping company and China COSCO company. After the products are arrived in Hong Kong and Shanghai port, we recommend to use S.F. Express logistic company to deliver the products to Guangzhou and Beijing city.

T. C. Edwin Cheng Department of Logistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong E-mail: lgtcheng@inet.polyu.edu.hk

The first group of researches cover the studies that brought the ABC concept to analyse logistics cost. According to the researches of Lin (2001) Stapleton

Evolution of the supply chain stems from Physical internet. Montreuil“If you think about the early days of computers, people loved using them, but they had no way to connect their computers to a community,” he says. “To get connectivity, we looked to transportation for a model and the information superhighway became the metaphor for the Internet.” The Physical internet approach is influenced by the internet network system where information is moved globally efficiently. The Supply chain system could use the Internet as a metaphor for a new way to move physical objects through the supply chain. As said by Meller “Imagine an EBay like exchange with all freight specified based on smart modular containers and visible to a vast community of users that rate each other to drive performance’’. This is a decentralised system that enables networking by aligning and coordinating the processes between customers’ suppliers and providers to manage logistics units efficiently and in a sustainable manner.

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