As the new profit center manager, you switch carriers to a more expensive, but quicker, more responsive transportation carrier. You justify this because when using a(n) perspective, your overall inventory and warehouse savings more than offset the increase in transportation costs. 1 lane operations 2 economic order quantity 3 total cost 4 ABC

Which of the following is not information needed to use the transportation model? Multiple Choice   Unit shipping distances.   Capacity of the sources.   All of the answer choices are correct.   Demand of the destinations.   Unit shipping costs.

In your own words, describe EDI and how it works in a logistics environment.

In this problem, your company is a distributor of products. You serve as an inventory manager for the regional distribution center (DC) here in the Atlanta area. In this role, you schedule the purchase and shipment of products from various suppliers inbound to the Atlanta DC. Once you receive the products at the DC, they are stored in inventory until they are picked, packed, and shipped outbound to your company's downstream customers in response to orders. For each of your products, you currently use a single, dedicated supplier. Each of your suppliers ships their products to you from their facility using trucking services, and they provide you with choices of different LTL or truckload trucking carriers depending on your shipment size. Consider managing inventory now for product 101 produced by Supplier A. Currently, you face demand for product 101 of about 200 units per week. Each unit of product 101 has a purchase cost p of $500 and you decide to value your inventory at the slightly…

Case 1: Distribution woes hobble start-ups in India At 4 am every day, you will find a crowd of hawkers near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus in Mumbai. They line up to buy their daily inventory of newspapers and magazines from 15-odd distributors, all located in a dark lane outside the nearby New Empire Cinema. After making their purchases, the street vendors fan out into the city on bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, and trains. By 6 am, the crowd has vanished, and if you walk past the theatre during the day, you will most likely miss the nerve centre of magazine and newspaper distribution in Mumbai. Most hawkers in Mumbai have a cash budget of around US$3 or US$4 a day, and they usually have a similar amount tied up in unsold inventory (returns). Elsewhere in the country, vendors have even less cash to spare. The key question an entrepreneur wishing to launch a new periodical must ask is: Why would a hawker want to lock up his scarce capital in my product? Failing to ask that…

Transportation mode decisions are generally driven by two major factors: cost and service

The logistics of moving goods around the world-between countries and within countries-has been troubled by volume constraints in most parts of the supply chain from carriers to warehousing. O primarily in warehouses and distribution centers O primarily in ocean and rail carriers O mostly in the trucking industry