Reverse logistics

1. Supply chain management Supply Chain Management (SCM): refers to the suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, distribution centers and distributors, etc., that meet the needs of a certain level of customer service to minimize the cost of the entire supply chain system Effectively organize the management of product manufacturing, distribution, distribution and sales together. Including planning, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, return the five basic elements (Arndt, H., 2004). From the…

Factor that Volvo moved systematically is effective customer services. Customer service can be defined as a process for providing significant value- added benefits to the supply chain in a cost- effective way. Customer focus is a ways that Volvo moved systematically. The company has effective customer service can be more success and gain more profit than company has lower performance in terms of customer services. It is because the strategic advantage in terms of customer services is difficult…

Question 1 : IKEA company started over 50 years ago in Sweden with Ingvar Kamprad , the company aim to produce a good products to satisfy the need and want for their customer , and in order to do this , they must apply hard system method to ensure that they are do their right job in a good ways . Stage one : system description IKEA is a furniture company that aims to provide the best products and services to its customers with good quality and low prices if its possible , it has several…

INTRODUCTION Material handling involves short-distance movement within the confines of a building or between a building and a transportation vehicle. It utilizes a wide range of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment and includes consideration of the protection, storage, and control of materials throughout their manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Material handling can be used to create time and place utility through the handling, storage, and control of…

Supply chain: The supply chain is the network and of businesses and people who work together to move raw materials into finished products and later to the end user. Supply chain management is the integration and coordination of all supply activities to provide best product or service to the customer, reduce cost and time in the best possible way. Information plays a vital role in supply chain management. Information sharing has improved the way the companies do their business with their…

U-Line Assembly Line Balancing Problems (UALBP): The U-line assembly line is basically in the form of u-shape instead of straight line which is the outcome of JIT that helps to reduce the workstations. In this type of lines, the workers can handle more than one machine. The u-shape of lines help to reduce the total travelling distance and time required during travel which is called cycle time.…

much smaller number of links. Also, because traffic flows are consolidated by hubs and inter-hub links, significantly less operating cost can be achieved because of economies of scale. Given such advantages, industry companies including airlines, logistics companies, and telecommunications firms extensively utilize the hub-and-spoke architecture to reduce the construction and operating costs. Traditionally, the primary concern of hub-and-spoke network design is the locations of hub facilities…

2.3.3 The Law of Daily Event Management The law of daily event management is about transportation cost reduction cannot be realized through infrequent transportation network designs. Real savings will only result from daily management and optimization of transportation requirement variability. Regular review and planning transportation network could make cost reduction, such an example, regular network planning can fully utilize truckload by making consolidation, milk run and JIT of the few of…

Realization of the need of an ERP System by Dabur Before 1999, Dabur used FoxPro for its key .business activities and logistics. Dabur has an enormous logistic network. It has 29 factories where different .products are manufactured. Truckloads .of goods are dispatched from. these factories every day. These finished goods are stored in six. warehouses and from there are sent. to more than 750 large distributors all over the country. With operations .at such a high scale, FoxPro was not. able to…

Operation management is defined as a complete series of processes which starts from designing the product or services and involves developing and supplying the products or services of the organization to end consumer. It is the management of processes that transform inputs into goods and services that add value for the customer. It also includes other functions like – Quality management function, Management control and Coordinating function, Facilities management function, Inventory control…