Abstract –– The large increase in load demands cause congestion in transmission lines which leads to instability in the power system operation. Distributed generation is used to minimize the power losses and thus to improve the system stability. Improper DG placement may increase system losses, network capital and operating costs. Which is important to find the size and location of distributed generation, inorder to minimize line losses of power system. This paper uses the Maximum Power…
Big businesses depend on shipments of products and materials and if you are in the business of shipping items, you know that customer satisfaction is the key to success. In years past though, there was only one true way to handle your trucks. The transportation management system (TMS) was the only real tool that you had. Set up was complicated, it was costly, and at the end of the day when you looked back at the log books, you would still see that your drivers ended up wasting a lot of time…
Professional Logistics and Supply Chain Management SME everywhere are incorporating research findings into their best practice to provide current, effective, and evidence-based best practices. Our exploration of evidence-based practice begins with developing focused research questions, directly relevant to a business problem or issue. A clear, concise, and succinct research question focuses the inquiry to produce meaningful results, cornerstone in practice and in research. In Logistics and…
c. From January to March 2018, Sergeant Garcia managed an inventory of class IX parts valued at $24 million. Applying his expertise, he worked tirelessly to optimize the requisition process by helping to restructure Global Combat Support System (GCSS–MC) reports that are being used in the newly developed demand forecasting model. His effort captures the necessary data points, such as Vendor Order Ship Time (VOST) that made it necessary to make replenishment buys. In the past, forecasting didn’t…
In reviewing the current delivery process, I immediately noticed that Spartan seems to have the same ship methods for every customer. While it may be easier for the transportation department to have a single shipping process, it is not necessarily the best move for our business. Spartan is shipping both local and rural orders via highway transport. Given the number of customers who often ask us to ship to multiple locations and the sheer number of orders in a given month, that equates to a lot…
outsource process such meat prepared to the company’s specifications to companies like Iowa Beef and Tyson. Furthermore, offshoring is exemplified by the company’s outsourcing of the both the cutting of salmon to the proper portion size as specified by Darden, and cracking or peeling of shrimps. Overall, Darden has successfully utilized the fundamental principle of supply chain and Just in time delivery to improve its profitability and presences within the business arena. Remarkably, the…
The first one is the development situation and tendency of logistics in e-commerce enterprises.The second one will talk about logistic modes selection in e-commerce enterprises.The last one will talk about self-run logistics mode. Firstly,e-commerce has accomplished a rapid development in recent years. Any deal in e-commerce includes four parts: business flow, fund flow, information flow and logistics. The most special part is logistics, which refers to the flow process of products, that is the…
QUALITY MANAGEMENT Logistics management can be described as an integrating activity which optimizes and integrates all logistics functions. It also integrates other logistics activities with other related function such as information technology, finance, manufacturing, sales and marketing. Supply Chain solutions play a vital role in identifying and determining a company’s success. Primary results can be found in supply chain, in case there is a small variance in the inventory. In order to…
Logistics: the Capital’s Art of War Technologies of all kinds, as artifacts and systems themselves, are often described as neutral entities, incapable of exerting any significant effects unless they have been graced with the human touch. Social influences are certainly strong factors to political leniencies of technology; however, to say that technology is indefinitely neutral is an uncritical and unrealistic claim. As Langdon Winner identifies in his writing, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”,…
make their processes even more lean and agile than they already are. The innovations that I spoke about above were just a few changes that Wal-Mart implemented in their supply chain management plan and used to become one of the worlds most known logistics and supply chain merchant. The benefits of their supply chain management have save them time, provided them faster inventory turnovers and increased warehouse space providing them with extremely accurate forecasting of inventory levels. Though…