INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMMERCE, IT & MANAGEMENT, Volume No. 6 (2016), Issue No. 7 (July). With this growth there will be lot of factors responsible to make this happen. A key aspect of this would be the infrastructure to provide services to huge customer base. With the increasing penetration of e-commerce, logistics support for the e-commerce companies will be a key parameter. The e-commerce from the very beginning has been impacting the logistics in the way it has always worked. From the traditional
analyzed and interpreted in sub-sections 4.9a to 4.9o. 4.9a Reverse Logistics Costs : Factor - ' Top Management Commitment '. Table 4.9a. Reverse Logistics Costs: Factor - ' Top Management Commitment '. a Level of Importance. Not at all Important Least Important Somewhat Important Important Highly Important Total No. of Respondents 0 0 7 197 64 268 % Respondents 0.0 0.0 2.6 73.5 23.9 100.0 Note. a Level of Importance : Not at all Important to Highly Important.
In order to cope with these challenges, Adidas has been applying Agile model of logistics and supply chain management. Agile Logistics and Supply Chain Management , in Adidas's case can be described with several characteristics as follows: Mass Customerization The base idea of this model is to produce and deliver various products at the level that most customers can find what they want when getting to our brand. However, various choices usually lead to the long process of decision-making process
Aim To provide an overview of basic concepts of logistics and supply chain management Instructional Objectives After completing this chapter, you should be able to: • Define supply chain • State the objectives of supply chain management • Describe the importance of supply chain management • Elaborate the cycle view of the supply chain processes • Illustrate the push-pull view of the supply chain processes Learning Outcomes At the end of this chapter, you are expected to: • State supply chain
As per the 2012 report by Deloitte and Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the challenges faced by logistics industry in India are: a) Transportation related challenges Railways: Important rail networks are oversaturated; Rail freight tariffs are high; Transit times are long and uncertain; Rail terminal quality is poor; Diminished flexibility in carrying different types of products; Railway carriage is not economical for the industries which cannot provide full train loads. Road: Inadequate road
This has been very successful especially during the festive periods with one successful aspect of the contract being the online services offered. Sainsbury’s success in effective logistics management throughout the supply chain has been accomplished through the proper linking of its warehouse to flight terminals. The logistics of Sainsbury's has been made better by the setting up of convenient depots. Warehousing is another critical part of Sainsbury's supply chain. In order for it to operate with efficiency
According to case study from Harvard Business School, “Alibaba dominates China’s Internet and logistics space with over 600 million subscribers, and nearly a quarter trillion dollars of annual transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay, it holds an 80 per cent share of the e-commerce market in the world’s second largest economy.” In recent years, rising labour and raw material costs have been amajor challenge faced by Chinese exporters. Small businesses, were effected the most they often need to spend
production and distribution of wealth. The emergence and rapid development of international logistics systems (ILS) is a manifestation of globalization, a process most directly affecting the world economy and the economic activity of international companies. The subject of this research paper is economic, managerial and organizational relations connected with the formation, operation and optimization of logistics systems in the foreign
cost and the tendency to bury logistics cost in other cost present in the organization is reduced. This is because activity based costing traces costa to the activities that resulted in the cost. According to Stapleton, Pati, Beach, & Julmanichoti, (2004), ABC rectifies the weaknesses of the traditional cost accounting system by “identifying all the work activities
Logisticians work in nearly every industry. Marketing logistics involve the transportation of goods in a planned manner which offers control over the distribution mechanism. Logistic Market is mainly a combination of marketing and operations. Every business requires both the functions to operate with a profit. Marketing creates a demand and logistics fills that demand through effective flow of goods/services. Together they are referred to as Marketing Logistics. Sri Lanka holds an important strategic geographical