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GLOBAL LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAINS AND INTERMODEAL TRANSPORTATION

where it would head off to another distribution center, and from there, to its destination. The major intermodal function, inciden...

ANALYSIS OF WAL-MART'S SUPPLY CHAIN

nalyzes Wal-Mart's supply chain, and how it can be improved through better collaboration with vendors. There are 9 sources listed ...

Creating Value With Supply Chain Integration

In 2002 the National Institute of Standards and Technology estimated that in the US alone more than $1 billion a year could be sa...

THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Discusses supply chain issues including performance metrics and ecommerce from bricks-and-mortar. Bibliography lists 5 sources. ...

Supply Chain Analysis for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR)

example the transportation to get the product in and out of the firm which include transport, labor, power and water needed in the...

Supply Chain for Asian Ceramic Capacitors

In twenty two pages capacitor industry vagaries over the years are considered with the emphasis on late 2000 to mid 2001 and relat...

Internet Purchasing and Supply Chain Research

In six pages this paper discusses the present and future changes represented by the Internet in this supply chain research conside...

Supply Chain and Ecommerce Effects

in the past was charged with identifying a target market and then seeking to attract and then retain customers in that market. Ma...

Competitive Advantage and the Supply Chain

for 2000. Boston-based AMR Research predicted that the supply chain management market would grow by 42 percent in 2000 to a total...

Increases in Supply Chain Outsourcing

for activities traditionally performed within the company. Outsourcing usually applies to a complete business process. It implies ...

Supply Chain Radio Frequency Identification

proven they could handle nothing else. Today, logistics is growing up and has a new name to distinguish it from its former positi...

Four Questions About Business

sakes and marketing this may indicate there is at least a partial meeting of this aspect. The third issue is the goals for succe...

Supply Chain and Radio Frequency Identification Contributions

area of study sees an application in several contexts, goods in the supply chain may be working capital for a company, and as such...

Exceso's Supply Chain Problems

(i.e., Wal-Mart and others) should deal directly with Exceso, the fact is that there is greater activity between these supply chai...

Industry Competition and Location

But accessible location isnt everything, nor is it necessarily the key to beating the competition. Its very true that at one time,...

Steinway's Supply Chain

chain, they are firm infrastructure, human resource management, technological development and procurement (Porter, 1985). At all l...

Developing Countries, Distribution Channels, and Supply Chains

chain being disproportionately distributed to those with the power (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This has been the source of a great de...

Apple Computer Supply Chain Issues

one or more software packages for purchasers. Apple offers online sales, but most of Apples products are sold through retailers. ...

Gas Industry Storage and Supply Chain Value Increasing

that powers and heats and does not have the same level of disadvantages seen with the use of oil. Once gas was seen more as a wast...

ELIMNATION OF THE MIDDLEMAN IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

All of that, however, is starting to change. Since the middle of the 20th century, the era of catalogue ordering has come about, i...

Free Markets and Sustainability

individuals can and do own companies and have the freedom to buy and sell (Hunter, 2003). The goal of these individuals is to ope...

Leagile Supply Chains and the U.S. Marine Corps

(Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001, p. 74). Innovative products usually have larger profit margins, but the demand for such goods is ...

WACC Assessment

any calculation is that there are a number of choices to be made, all of which may be correct. The first consideration may be the ...

Creating Flow through the Supply Chain

advantage of any constraints in place. The forth involves the alignment of all the processes with the decision was made at stage t...

U.S. ARMY, SUPPLY CHAIN, AND LOCATION

to point B (Griffin, 2007). Things have changed during the past decade at the AMC, however - there was a time during...

Global Supply Chain Establishment and Decision Making

moved; how quickly each shipment is needed; and what types of infrastructure exists in remote locations throughout the world. Eac...

Changes in the Supply Chain

One of the worst reasons to continue with any approach to accomplishing a task in todays business environment is "...because thats...

Supply Chain Maximization

example as it applies to the different countries. In any business the supply chain is the chain from the production of the...

Dell Computer Strategies

This is a report about Dell Inc., founded in 1984. Dell offered a unique experience to consumers at the time. The paper considers ...

Reverse Logistics and Other Isues

This essay explains and discusses different issues regarding fleet transportation. The issues are: operations, reverse supply chai...