Supply chain optimization

Warehouse and Facility Design service decides the ideal design of the customer’s warehouse and enhances facility procedures to proliferation of competence and supply chain performance. Through regarding the existing inventory stages and future-state volume requires, this service recognizes chances to enhance material transactions such as racking designs and conveyor structures and, if required, the use of third-party logistics suppliers. Enhanced warehouse design and procedures can…

goods. Today’s transportation also got influence by the Internet of Things. With the connected devices, the industry is changing to be smarter, more efficient and lower costs. There are several types of transportation that can be used with the supply chains. 1. Air fright: Using aircraft to transport goods. 2. Land logistics (focus on trucks, and railway): Ship goods through the railways or roads.…

Literature overview Warehousing Source: - (Flex Study, 2013) Warehousing in its most essential structure is essentially holding products until they are required. The elements of a warehouseare to: 1. Get the merchandise from a source. 2. Store the merchandise until they are needed. 3. Pick the products from the capacity zone when they are needed. 4. Ship the merchandise to the proper client. Source: - (Flex Study, 2013) Value of warehousing Source: - (Flex Study, 2013) Warehousing…

with SCM domain questions; help them for selection of framework. These questions were built based on the different architecture working scenario. Agile Enterprise Domain is best suited for agile supply chain modules. Out of the number of agile parameters, selected important parameters for the Supply chain domain are evaluated with a given architecture. Answers based on agile parameter’s analysis with respect to different architectures in agile environment are written as shown in the Table 5.…

• C- total cost of Milk Runs given per day • S1- the cost per small truck (407) per day • S2- the cost per large truck (909) per day • S3- the fixed administrative cost charged per day • X1- number of small trucks used every day • X2- number of large trucks used every day • Pj- trips of the small trucks • Qj- trips of the large trucks • jth- supplier for every day • Mj- the mass to be transported • Kj and Lj- the round-trip times to the jth supplier Let S1 be the cost per small truck (407)…

3. A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE DECISION MAKING TOOLS USED Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty (34), is designed to solve complex multi-criteria decision problems. AHP decomposes the complex decisions in a hierarchical structure and makes it easy to manage the complex decisions in this way. So the decision maker can determine the trade-offs among objectives related to all criteria, sub-criteria and their pairwise comparisons. The output of AHP is a prioritized ranking…

2.3 CASE: The role of technology in the shift towards open innovation: the case of Procter & Gamble. THE ISSUES OF THE CASE In 1990, Procter & Gamble (P & G) faced some difficulties in selling their products globally. This is due the inability to produce new products and response to the consumer’s changing needs. The company’s products in market sold less than expected sales and getting reduced for several years. Most of the products are unnoticed by customers. The company practice dictated a…

Diseconomies of scale: Zara has not invested in distribution facilities to support their global expansion. As a result, although it is aware of how to quickly supply 1,000 stores, they may not be able to supply more retail locations due to their “centralized logistic” model. Even though Zara has been successful at scaling up its distribution system, the centralized logistics system might eventually be subject to diseconomies of scale as Zara continues to open stores all around the world and…

or market, additionally maintaining a good relationship with its suppliers. Supply Chain Management is a way to set the parameters with which a company or business can operate while attending the demand for products or services, with a line of providers of materials, equipment and other services required for the end product to reach the market and, of course, the consumers. (see Figure 1) Having an efficient supply chain management, helps companies reduce costs, either for transportation or…

Operations Management Supply Chain and Logistics Issues Thomas College – Class MG 338 M Professor – Dr. Nicholas Jewczyn, Ph.D. Stanley Carte Tuesday November 25, 2014 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to better understand the writings on Six Sigma and supply chain management as it applies to operation management. A closer look will be taken at buying centers, reverse logistics and third party systems and how they effectively affect supply chain management. Introduction Supply chain…