Application for Logistics and Transportation Internship
Cover letter - 1 pages - Logistics
A DUT Logistics and Transportation student applies for a four-week internship in the field of logistics and transportation, highlighting their knowledge, skills, and passion for the sector.
Amazon Logistics Model Analysis
Sectorial analysis - 15 pages - Logistics
This report analyzes Amazon's logistics model, its supply chain management, and adaptable strategies for e-commerce companies.
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...
International operations and logistics - Supply chain management
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Alpha, the explosion protection solutions manufacturer, recently faced financial pressure due to some external specific situations, mostly the global downturn in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the company has had to imagine a new supply chain's strategy aiming at improving its global...
TD d'anglais : Innovative Technologies Transforming The Logistics Industry
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Linguistics & languages
TD (Travaux Dirigé) d'anglais sur la thématique “Innovative Technologies Transforming The Logistics Industry” (les technologies innovantes qui transforment l'industrie de la logistique). L'ensemble du travail est en anglais. Ce dernier se décompose en 2 parties, à savoir : 1-...
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...
Research work for personal development: supply chain management, logistics...
Essay - 19 pages - Management
I am interested in the supply chain management, logistics, but also in the purchase. In the future, I would like to work in these areas that have an interconnected network. I took advantage of having to do these interviews to focus more about what I am interested in. So I decided to seek...
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 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...
Car import logistics: Responding to changes - published: 08/04/2008
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
The whole car industry in Europe is experiencing great changes, mostly due to a new regulation imposed by the European Union of the Block Exemption. Aimed at increasing competition in car distribution, those new rules will have an impact on every actor involved, from manufacturers to car dealers...
Financial crisis compared with ABX logistics/ Valencia
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
What is a financial crisis? What are the causes of a financial crisis, and what are its effects? What are the expectations, for the evaluation of the financial crisis? These are the questions that are going to be answered in this report. This topic is in relation with the company ABX...
Improving the most important logistics- Changing the supply chain of International Federation of Red Cross Red crescent Societies (IFRC)
Case study - 12 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”....
Supply Chain and Logistics Managements' evolution
Essay - 4 pages - Logistics
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...
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...
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...
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...
Logistics of international trade: The oil market
Case study - 15 pages - Accounting
Nowadays, the oil market can be considered the engine of the world's economy as each variation on the stock market can have social, political or diplomatic consequences. A world without oil is inconceivable today. We require oil for transport, industries etc. The global oil market is set to...
Global logistics and operations
Course material - 11 pages - Logistics
The Lean Manufacturing is a theory which looks for optimization in goods production through the removal of waste and implementation of flow, in opposition to batch and queue. Originally, there are 7 wastes called 'muda', which are: Overproduction (production more important than demand),...
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...
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...
Sony's logistics department
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Sony is a Japanese company, founded in 1946, by an engineer and physicist. The company really began to develop in 1954 after received a license for the manufacturing of transistors, this major event has set the group out to conquer the Asian market. The strategy of the founder was to view the...
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...
Logistics assessment - publié le 30/05/2012
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...
International logistics and procurement (2010-2011)
Internship report - 15 pages - Logistics
Definition of procurement: It can be defined as the purchase of goods or services at the optimum possible cost, in the correct amount and quality. These goods/services are also purchased at the correct time and location by signing a contract. Definition of logistics: It is to get the...
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...
