วันเสาร์ที่ 21 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

Barilla SpA Case Study

Supply chain management presentation at the pasta manufacturer Barilla SpA ... Italy Barilla Pasta Supply Chain Management University of Alberta Inventory organizational culture JITD



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วันอังคารที่ 10 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

Supply chain management and point-of-Use Logistics

Companies will never reach their full growth and profit potential, let alone the benefits of their supply chain management system to gain as long as business continues to talk about the value provider, has partnerships to continue to treat their suppliers as adversaries.

Material handling and inventory storage are two of the high cost of production, non-value adding activities. The removal of the warehouse, as it is known today, was a strategicThe aim of all manufacturers. Moving material for their point-of-use is not a new concept, the automotive industry have done so from the beginning and all industries with success, had point-of-use, inexpensive hardware.

Supply chain development is the key, and it is time to recognize that there is still much more to increasing supplier contribution to gross profits than by simply ordering the lowest price bidder. "Strategic outsourcing", which always focus onright materials in the right quantity at the right place at the right time and at the lowest "total cost" must "against-up" on suppliers for price reduction to replace alone.

A manufacturer of electronic components, test equipment, in response to the need to increase factory floor space, a new multi-function tester, construction decided to convert the problem of space for storing items in a production area. It was agreed that none of the new tester parts would enter the rest of the warehouse and that all common partswould be relocated their production to areas such as point-of-use "inventory. The key to this project was a success supports the development of an efficient suppliers, the timely and innovative "point-of-use" logistical support. High integrity, communication, scheduling flexibility / responsiveness, high quality, special materials, transportation and storage racks and a positive "continual improvement" mentality had developed some of the characteristics of the relationship.Three years after the start of the project was the manufacturer with a market leader, and the majority of funding goes, supports their supplier development team and powerful supplier, which it helped develop.

In today's competitive business world, many manufacturing companies are turning to value-added supplier partnerships to achieve the performance, availability of materials is a prerequisite for a successful point-of-use logistics. When a company forms a partnership thatleads to one of the links in the supply chain, both of which benefit from the other's success. The power of the supplier partnerships can not be denied. To a large extent they have the best of both worlds: the coordination and the level of large enterprises and the flexibility, creativity and low overhead usually associated in small businesses.

Suppliers have knowledge and insights, but not charged with the Guidelines from a remote location. You do not have long forms to fill outand make weekly reports and to act immediately, without consulting with a thick manual of standard operation procedures. In a growing number of industries, value-added providers prove to be a fiercely competitive - delivering high quality, competitively priced materials to precise buyer schedule requirements.

An excellent way of establishing the partnership relationship with each other, treat it as an extension of their own business. The value-added supplier should be seenPartner for services such as special requests such as assistance for capital investment and training needs and maybe some process engineering or quality engineering assistance. The acquisition partners, on the other side, you have delivered to the supplier partner for product development input, cost containment ideas and high quality parts / components / assemblies at the right time, in the right quantity and at the lowest possible "total cost".

Most entrepreneurs underestimate the depth and breadth ofBusiness skills that are necessary to initiate, and promote an effective supply chain program. Typically, these leaders hold suppliers at arm's length and keep the fight for economic gain for themselves. In fact, organizations often try to secure a supplier for the control of their own profits, weaken it. This is obviously ridiculous and is the first obstacle, though point-of-use is logistic, it can be successfully implemented to overcome - because without a strong supplier network mayno point-of-use logistics.

Business travel in the pursuit of point-of-use logistics proponents should respond: 1) business integrity, 2) from day to day supplier cooperation, 3) the free exchange of information, 4) decision-making and 5) provider profits. Supplier development and strategic outsourcing needs has been a "done from the top down" commitment and investment to produce an "it" team of experts, it can happen.

วันเสาร์ที่ 7 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

Import-Export - 5 Key Market Research Factors

Whether you are approaching the Import/Export (IMEX) game as an export management company (EMC), export trading company (ETC), or trade merchant... a market research plan and execution of it is mission critical to your success and sustainability.

Knowing what the key relevant factors are is the difference between being properly informed to make the best decision or deciding your companies commitments off of guesswork and irrelevant factors.

5 Key Market Research Factors are:

Global Competition
- What other companies (if any target) with similar product (s) the same market?
- Do they have any advantages? If so, what (political relations, personnel from the market, etc,.)?
- Do you ask questions ...

Local competitors
- Are there existing local businesses in your target market with similar product (s)? If yes, how many?
- How long they have been in operation?
- Do you ask questions ...

SOCIAL CHANGES
- What kind ofsocial changes occurring in your audience that your product would affect (s) successful?
- What changes are the trends and new models of life are?
- Do you ask questions ...

Suppliers
- How many potential suppliers do you currently have compiled for your product (s)?
- How strong is your supply chain (for tax purposes, historically, logistics, capacity, future demand, etc. to the presidency.)?
- Do you ask questions ...

GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
--Agencies are invited to a list of agents with successful track records in your target market.
- Does your home government does not have specific rules that trade in the target country? If so, how?
- Do you ask questions ...

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Be relentlessly thorough exercise of all relevant facts and data about your potential venture. Leave no stone unturned. What may seem insignificant may be (and usually does not) lead tosomething that you do adjust your entire market entry strategy.

Be detail oriented in this step, your due diligence will take advantage of great opportunities in the near future and to facilitate the development of a platform for long term sustainability. Ask questions, ask a few questions, and attach a couple of questions that, for good measure ... and that does not mean that you should stop regarding a specific date. Always looking for new information, allowing you to stay lean and flexible andExploit the directions of the volatile markets of today rather than catches, too flat-footed by them.

Well informed, you may want to decide so that your business and ensure competitiveness, sustainability, and profitability.

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วันพุธที่ 4 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

Outsourcing As A Means In Addressing Supply Chain Quality Issues

Supply Chain Quality has always something to do with the supply chain management. The reasons for a process in most cases are always things that are managed, connected. Without commenting on management issues, there are virtually no progress in the quality of output of each process.'s Expected supply chain, as the process of collecting the results of the original sources of raw materials can be defined until the actual production thenuntil the last output and its distribution from the source location to the end consumer.

The main problem that many managers encounter problems before, when on supply chain quality is the distribution. This applies not only to the actual distribution of the last edition of the products. It starts form the original source of raw materials. Without resources, work on, there will no input into the process with the desired end product.

One way toto treat this is through outsourcing. Many companies are now not on things that you are approached by other companies to focus specialized on the same product or a service. For example, a company can not on the actual manufacture of their products. What is its focus on technology and on ways to improve it. What they do is that it provides us with other companies that they can, the raw materials. Then they have outsourced their materials distributed to several plants, and alsoThese end products are back on truck industry, specializing in logistics management outsourcing.

It is the core of this strategy is practiced here. The failure of many managers responsible for supply chain quality is that they are reactive, not active. What happens is that they are only strategic in their approach to solving the problems instead of setting processes rather than tactically. The difference is that if one is tactical, he simply turnsProblems already in the organization. In the case of the crib is available in the implementation processes, the problems would have not occurred at all. This is similar to the old adage that prevention is better than cure, too.

One should realize that one of the outstanding efforts, the need in the focus, outsourcing partnership. As already mentioned, are the days where companies all have a responsibility in the supply chain. The people should not to be confusedSupplies only goods, as is also applicable in terms of services, such as customer service by phone or e-mail support. The type of care is delivered here, the number of customers within a specified period. And that is often measured in terms of service levels.

Now the outsourcing industry was booming, that a company has very many options. The essential thing is that people will manage parts of your business for you while you concentrate on developing new andto increase the technological and advanced concepts for business.

In sum, the supply of the existing processes that are present in charge. The management of this aspect of the business should not only be made by the Company outsourced but efforts should be seriously considered for an ideal and efficient supply chain have quality.



วันอังคารที่ 3 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

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วันจันทร์ที่ 2 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2552

Understanding Freight Transportation And Its Importance

Freight Transport System is an important prerequisite for a growing economy. With the advent of the new era and with the increasing commercialization, the demand for goods and services would increase significantly from all over the world. This means that would have placed high importance on the physical infrastructure.

Definition:

Transportation of freight or goods by different modes of transport such as rail, road or ship in a container or vehicleThe minimal handling of goods even when changing modes of transport concerns.

Modes

Rail:
It deals with various units include that in the operational railway, railway terminal and depot facilities for the transportation of freight. It is also activities such as sending or the right kind of transfer of rail freight or cargo, etc.

Road:
It is primarily for the carriage of freight by means of units engagedRoads with trucks. It also deals with the units in the rental truck with a driver involved in road transport.

Ship freight:
These units involved in the transport of heavy goods by sea with a heavy sea vessels such as ships. It also deals with the units that provide services related to cargo management and shipment of goods or cargo

Significance

It helps to minimize the handling of cargo, thereby improving safety and reducing the chances of loss byAccidents by fire or theft. It allows a faster movement of cargo. Therefore, proper guidance should be given to the respective authorities to ensure faster and more precise movement. It is an important link in the supply chain of goods. It allows the goods from the hands of the manufacturer into the hands of consumers in every part of the world is to achieve.

Future issues and concerns

With the increasing complexity of international trade and the growing demandfor goods which are the following key issues and challenges that affect the planning and logistics in the future:

The requirements for logistics services and the possibility of physical and information infrastructure to meet these requirements.

The growth of information technology in transportation and its impact on goods movement.



Sustainable Global Supply Chains Abstract by Simon Croom, Ph.D.

Simon Croom, Ph.D., Professor of Supply Chain Management and Director of Supply Chain Management Institute is a video summary of its "Sustainable Global Supply Chains" class. The curriculum is presented to www.caseplace.org / USD



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วันเสาร์ที่ 31 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

What is EDI?

Have you heard someone mention EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) or e-commerce
and wondered what it was? Put simply, e-commerce is the exchange of information
on trade in goods, services, or money from computer to computer. For example,
the purchase of a widget on the Internet, where a law, a tracking night
Package delivery, or receiving a paycheck electronically.

Now imagine a business. You want to make the same transactions, but
Thousandstime on the day. That's where Steps EDI EDI is an agreed
Standard message that the exchange of information from one computer application
another with the minimum of human intervention. And 95% of all e-commerce applications
EDI for the exchange of this information. It can be done with special software via e-mail,
via the Internet or through tailor-made compounds. And it goes beyond the purely
Forward purchase of goods and invoices. A company may request information
aboutStocks in warehouses of its suppliers and customers, receive an order confirmation
Status and to send money electronically in addition to automatic notification that a
Bill was paid. These are just some of the many types of automated transactions

EDI is not new. In fact, it is much older than you might
think. But in some industries it's just a few years old. And the health of the industry
the United States had to be mandated by the federal governmentGovernment before they dared
Venture into EDI.

Who uses EDI? And how and where it all started? What are the benefits? What
the costs? What are the legalities? And why, with all the obvious advantages,
some industries are reluctant to conversion to EDI? Now we start at the beginning to see
how it came about.

Who uses EDI?

About 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies currently use EDI. Companies such as
American Airlines, BMW,Coca-Cola, Dunkin Donuts, Eastman Kodak, Federal
Express, Gordmans, Heinz, InFocus, JCPenney, Kohls, Lowes, Macys, Nike,
Openheimer, Prudential Insurance, Queens City Government, Radio Shack, Staples,
Texaco, United Airlines, Verizon, Wachovia, and Yokohama tires, to name a few.
EDI is commonly used in the manufacturing, shipping, warehousing, utilities,
Pharmaceutical, construction, petroleum, metals, food, banking,
Insurance, retail, government,Healthcare and textiles among other industries.

Every company that buys or sells goods or services can potentially use EDI. Because it
supports the entire business cycle, EDI can streamline the relationship that each
Company has with its customers, distributors, suppliers, and so on. After
A recent study, the number of companies, the EDI is expected to quadruple within
the next six years.

History of EDI

The first recorded EDI databack to the 1850s when the railroads and the West
Union used the telegraph to-business information. From there,
Samuel Morse code was the only patented method of communication
the lines.

Were in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift, thousands of tons of food and consumables
are required to be air shipped. The task of coordinating these programs (the
manifested with different languages and number of copies had arrived addressed)
ofthe development of a standard manifest.

Activated in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the rise of the computer company store
and processing of information by electronic means businesses need a sensible way to
Communications of the data. This method was developed by the widespread use of realized
Computer telecommunications. Could with telecommunications companies
transfer the data electronically over telephone lines, and the data entered directly
in the economy, a trading application.These electronic exchanges
shorter reaction times, less paperwork, and eliminates the potential for
Transmission errors. Computer telecommunications, however, only part of the solution
the problem.
Early electronic interactions are based on proprietary formats agreed between two
Trading partners. Due to different document formats, it was difficult for a company
to exchange data electronically with many trading partners. Was asked one
Standard formatfor which data are exchanged. In the United States, 1968
Transportation Data Coordinating Committee (TDCC) was formed to coordinate
Development of translation rules among four existing support groups of industry-specific
Standards.

In the mid-1970s, it was clear that the TDCC standards were not enough, and the work
began for the national EDI standards. The Electronic Data Interchange Association
(EDIA), a non-profit organization established to serve as administratorseveral
different industry groups. Each industry has served up a committee to determine new
Standards, modify existing, and provide the information to the EDIA for
Publication and dissemination. EDIA was asked to develop a set of standards
for the food industry. The first such standard is the uniform
Communication Standard (UCS), which was applied to an actual takeover by the
Quaker Oats Company in 1981.

In 1979, the American National StandardsInstitute (ANSI) Accredited Standards
Committee (ASC) was founded. There were representatives from the transport sector,
Government and industrial PC makers the committee's inaugural meeting
was held in Rosslyn, Virginia, with the aim to create a set of standard data formats
on the basis of the TDCC structure:

- Have the hardware-independent;

- Goods clearly, so that they could be used by all trading partners;

- Reduction of laborTasks of the exchange of data (eg data re-entry);

- It allowed the sender of the data to know the exchange, including whether and control
if the recipient has the transaction.

Was in 1982, version 1 of the ANSI ASC X.12 certified version of the draft standards
published.

Around the same time, the UK Department of Customs and Excise, the
Help SITPRO (the British Trade Board, the simplification of procedures) was
developing its own standards forDocuments in international trade, called
TRADACOMS. These were later extended by the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe (UNECE) into what GTDI known as the (general-purpose commercial
Data Interchange Standards) have been accepted gradually by around 2,000 British
executing agencies.

Problems created by the trans-Atlantic use of two different (and largely
incompatible) standardized documents have been addressed by the
EducationUnited Nations Joint European and North American Working Group
(UN-JEDI), which began the development of Electronic Data Interchange for
Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) document translation
Standards.

From the outset, Value Added Networks (VANs) as "electronic mail" for
Buyers and suppliers who need to exchange data. For example, Company A might
Please send an electronic order to the VAN and the VAN Company B could also
pick him up. If Company B claimed that she did not get the nomination, VAN
would be confirmed as a third party mediator and would determine whether the purchase
Thus was included in the deed or not. This is the kind of "value-add" this
Networks available.

Despite the advantages, VAN EDI had limited acceptance because it is cost-prohibitive
to implement for most companies. Before Internet EDI were available, such as
80% of providers in a givenSupply chain were, with their
Customers manually by fax, phone and mail because they can not afford it
the investment required for VAN EDI. These inefficiencies in the entire sequence
Supply chain, including: lost or incorrect orders, invoices late, out-of --
Shares, etc.

With the advent of secure Internet EDI, companies of all sizes can now
electronically with their trading partners to make.VAN and services such as
"Message Disposition Notifications (MDNS) are directly integrated into the software
Products.

Benefits of EDI

Imagine a very simple, non-EDI-based purchase: A buyer decides he needs 365
Widgets. It creates a purchase order, print it out and opens it in the mail. When
the supplier receives the order, she types it into their computer system of a company. The
Inventory man pulls the order and ships the widgets. Next, the supplier hasPrints
Mails from and an invoice. It is not hard to imagine that this process could
several days. EDI has the potential of large amounts of time from the cut to
Process. Sending documents such as purchase orders or invoices electronically
Takes minutes, not days, and shipments can often go on the day the order is
in.

In addition, the electronic format can not be entered again upon arrival. And
that is the part of the biggest benefits of EDI.This saves an enormous amount
And labor means that no errors are introduced during the data input into the system through
Your employees. Lead times are reduced, and data entry backlogs are almost completely
eliminated. This allows a very quick order. A real system can easily
Handle receipt of an order and shipping that order with his account the same day.
Studies show that the average reduction in turn around time is about 40%
Most companiesFunctions such as order processing, procurement, manufacturing,
Logistics and finance.

This often allows a company, the first devices to handle much larger volumes of EDI
no additional staff costs and other costs. This means sales and
increased revenues if it is recaptured, the initial investment in EDI.
These savings come from:

• No data entry errors by your operator

• No time-Mail

• Reduced process and workTime

• reduced lead times

• Reduce cycle time by

• Reduce storage costs

• No registration and other processing of paperwork

EDI improves margins by fulfilling customer needs and thus
Strengthen the relationship. It also allows time and effort to focus on to other
internal priorities.

Studies have shown that the processing cost of an order or invoice, including
Companies more than $ 5 in paper, postage, handling,direct labor and other such odds
and ends of the direct costs. With EDI, this can be reduced to about 50 cents;
sometimes as little as 13 cents, depending on how the EDI transmitted document.
If your direct handling costs are higher, the savings is greater.

Another advantage is the implementation of Just-In-Time (JIT) ordering
Methodology. Just-in-time, to avoid a company stock-outs and / or obsolete
Inventories, shorten lead times on order fromSuppliers to reduce inventory and
Storage costs. Whether the implementation of a subset or all of the JIT process
Methodology is to make EDI Just-In-Time and permits to be feasible.
With the proper agreements between trading partners, a manufacturer may
Determine the current sales of their current buyers and their buyers' inventory
Levels. Therefore, the manufacturer can forecast likely future sales and plan
Production and their own purchasing accordingly.Of course, it is sometimes
be wild swings that this scenario is disturbing, but it needs to help the manufacturer
exactly to plan production, and the buyer know that their needs more
are likely to be met by their suppliers.

Just-In-Time helps the manufacturer to communicate quickly and inexpensively with
their suppliers, which can run on the same predictions for the requirements of
their customers.

Disadvantages of EDI

Themain disadvantage of implementing EDI, it is revealed inefficient firms
Practices. If inefficient a company's business process with EDI, they will
Multiply in the implementation of EDI. The original purpose of the EDI has been saved
Money and time. When used improperly, has neither EDI and waste actually both.

The cost for EDI

The prices for EDI applications range from free (for a very simple single-function products)
several thousand dollars forFull-function applications. The final price that you
depends on several things:


The expected volume of electronic documents. In general,
cost EDI packages handle only a few documents and trading partners. Midrange
EDI packages can be a little more expensive, but handle a much larger volume of
EDI. If you anticipate multiple documents or trading partners, a mid-EDI
System is a much better choice.

The amplitude of the EDI translationSoftware. Some products search
seem like a bargain, but as your EDI needs to grow, hidden costs (such as to
Buy new transaction sets) suddenly appear. You can pay more, for a program
with an integrated mappers, but you avoid the purchase card and overlays in
Future.

Implementation time. Some applications are simpler to learn and use
than others. But as above, can easily reject the less the software package
handle. The more time you spend in training,the more time it takes to be in
Production mode. If your time frame is tight, and you are sure the documents you
will come with static, you are looking for in a translator who is not required training
Implementation.

The fees vary from software companies, Software Company. Ignore
The hidden costs already mentioned, you can expect that the following current charges:

Charges. Most of the companies an annual maintenance
Fee, which is usually a percentage ofTranslator's list price. This fee should include
Software updates, standards updates, technical support and customer service.

VAN charges. If you use a Value Added Network (VAN), you will
Account for the transmission of data similar to a long distance call. Some also
Invoice you enter for the time connected. A fast modem helps reduce the transmission.

Mailbox Fee. Most VANs charge a monthly fee for maintaining a
Mailbox on their network. Some settlement on the basis ofDocument (25 cents per
Transmitted document.) Others charge by the number of characters in each basis
Document.

EDI can sometimes take much longer than expected. Remember, you are working with
another company, and you have no control over their priorities and business practices.
Her priority mart can implement an order (850) with whale, but their
Priority, the implementation of the Advance Ship Notice (856). You must
Implementation of a Remittance Advice(820) with Wachovia but their Remittance Advice
Specialist is on maternity leave and her replacement only know Lockbox (823).

Despite the few drawbacks, DHA showed that a high performance backbone that today's e-commerce support. Companies around the world use EDI
Versatility and flexibility to communicate with each other. And with the promise
on the Web, which offers much lower costs of connectivity, and the lower cost of PCs and
simpleEDI Software is opening its doors for smaller companies. Moreover, XML, a
open standard for the exchange of data will appear momentarily as a method of encoding EDI
Provide standards, technical clarity about the industries and nations could
around the world.



วันศุกร์ที่ 30 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Cold chain -Loading Bagged Salads

Supply Chain On Vegitec 20:00 For TX



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Gold In The Supply Chain

Blimey, there are a load of these videos out yet.



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วันจันทร์ที่ 26 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Product Distribution; Cause and Effect Issues

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 25 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Presentation by Mahfoud Bouhembel at Web4Dev 2009

Speech by Mahfoud Bouhembel, logistics O \ ffice, WFP, while the Supply Chain Workshop, Day 2 ... web4dev09 UNICEF Supply Chain Innovation



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วันเสาร์ที่ 24 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Corporate Climate Response: Day 1 Session 2 (part 1)

10.00 Case Study: Driving Efficiencies down the Supply Chain Dr. Chris Tuppen, Head of Sustainable Development and Corporate Accountability, BT 10.20 Case Study: Product Life-Cycle Emissions: Low Carbon Shampoo Andrew Jenkins, Sustainable Development Manager, Boots 10.40 Discussion with expert panel ratings and monitoring of the climate impact of carbon reduction and energy cost savings calculation of the energy use of your product or services in full "life How much of the supply chain have implications ...



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วันศุกร์ที่ 23 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Supply Chain - 3 Key Things to Know

Supply chain tips. Rob O'Byrne Bureau of Logistics, talks about the 3 most important things to know about your supply chain. www.logisticsbureau.com



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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 22 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Maintaining Areas of Your Restaurant Clean

Putting, a restaurant and its preservation for the daily operation requires much effort from the owners and managers. In the same efforts are also needed from the restaurant employees because their labor is clearly important that the related tasks are involved in the restaurant management. As the owner or manager, it is important that you take a look at the issue of cleanliness and hygiene, among your employees and your room and restaurant.

This means to say, do not prove, cleanliness,in addition to the punishment of God. Keep your restaurant clean, and every object in it to ensure that you maintain a healthy and favorable environment for both your employees and customers. In addition, also it is the impression that you are in the introduction to your customers as well as the new arrivals.

Maintaining a clean restaurant and surrounding area is a tough job, but you can do more than what is expected if you do orient themselves correctly to your employees. Should be stressed from the first day of employment, how important it is for themEverything kept clean in their path. This includes the area from the kitchen to the counter and the tables for each customer. To span the areas of customer maintain spic-and-always start the day before the opening of the restaurant through the cleaning of the floor to the ceiling. The doors, windows, fans should tables, screens and even the walls, everything has to be checked for the necessary repairs. All should be functional for the convenience of both customers and employees.

Dust and grease are also the topGuilty for causing you a dirty facility. The kitchen tools such as the oven, stove, chopping boards, knives, knife, can opener, and many others are exposed to more directly on dirt, as these tools and this is the area of the restaurant in order to produce all exposed to germs from different cans and containers. If you want clean and good food you serve to keep your kitchen is an ideal place for your storage of food. If you get the credit for it and share it with yourStaff.



Performance Improvement Services For Small Businesses

Performance Improvement Services is to improve the performance of the core functions of your company and thus make the desired effectiveness and efficiency at the lowest self-directed.

The lack of coordination and fewer standards for the transmission of different nodes have a large impact on the company's image and profits. The level of performance in the various departments are very crucial for overall economic growth and revenues.

Although there is no strict mantraGrowth, however, if the proper standards of performance in different departments set up their coordination is due care, and service levels improved, there is no reason why a company should not be surpassed. To further gauge the impact of assimilating the lead in performance and ensure that the same is widespread the key was, must be identified and targeted. Only a few of them could be:

1. Strategy Perspective: This aspect includes services such as benchmarking,Planning the overall strategy, coordination of business resources and planning the company's overall direction.

2. Financial Perspective: The services include the analysis and transformation of data, information management, consolidation, optimization and control of other organizational requirements.

3. Compliance and Risk Management Services: Do you update on the regulatory requirements and in addressing the various compliance programs.

4. IT Perspective: Aligning ITDepartment strives to overall company strategy and growth. Could focus on IT-tracking systems to vaulted information, audits, etc.

5. Personal Perspective: The focus is on providing the right skills, competency mapping, transitional arrangements, performance analysis, and other employee related programs.

6th Supply Chain Perspective: The goal is to simply flow from the supply chain and the necessary momentum.This could also search for efficient business partner, best cost and best quality.

The main driving force for excellence in services is the continuous development. They aim at providing maximum benefit for both the internal and external customers (actual customers and other stakeholders such as shareholders, investors, etc.) equally.

Performance improvement services for companies offering the necessary technical assistance and advice in all areas to achieve the best in thepossible. The main purpose of these services be addressed is the dynamics and the implicit competition in modern business. For more legal protection to the increasing compliance requirements and the subsequent trip in the modern companies require that extra care while a decision is taken care of by the performance experts.

Performance Improvement Services to the desired edge, limiting the need for different specialists in different departments added (this is almost not feasiblefor smaller firms) with limited budgets. This comprehensive assistance acts as a facilitator for small businesses and helps them compete with the much better equipped, larger companies. Various functions and the complexity involved can now ensured by the simplistic approach of this performance was driven carefully developed services for smaller businesses.



วันพุธที่ 21 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

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Explain What is Meant by Bullwhip Effect and How Could It Be Prevented?

An organization will always be ups and downs. It is necessary that the managers of the organization to keep track of the market conditions and analyze the changes. You need decisions on the organization to the demands of the market needs. If not, may adversely affect the functioning of the organization, resulting in lack of coordination and trust between supply chain members.

The changes may impact the information and can lead to a strengthening of demand> Supply Chain. The bullwhip effect is the uncertainty caused by distorted information to flow up and down the supply chain. This will affect almost all industries, a risk for companies that experience large fluctuations in demand. And even those companies that are dependent on suppliers, distributors and dealers.

A bullwhip effect can occur because the --

Increase the throughput of the project will increase the variability ofDemand

Increase in stocks on stock to accommodate the growing demand from the complicated requirements models and forecasting techniques

Reduction in service levels in the organization

Misallocation of resources

Higher transport against

How can we prevent it?

Bullwhip effect can be avoided by one or more of the following measures --

Avoid multiple demand forecast

Breading the individual contracts in several batchesOrders

Stabilize prices, prevent the risk of overgrazing by maintaining an adequate inventory involved

Reduce the variability and uncertainty in Lack-of-sale (POS) and shaving information

Reduce the lead time in the phases of the project

Keep the analysis of figures from the past and pursue current and future levels of requirements

Improve operational efficiency and outsourcing of logistics to location and efficient agency

On the bullwhip effect is theMB0028 theory of MBA from Sikkim Manipal University. It is a question of MBA assignments. Bullwhip effect prevention theory was introduced in the award.



วันอาทิตย์ที่ 18 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Icebreaker Baacode Grower - Middlehurst Station

Icebreaker Baacode you can trace your garment back through the transparent supply chain to the farms, the merino fiber, it was made from. This is a video of one of our sites in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. "I grew up in Halfway Bay, near Queenstown. I have been working on a dairy farm straight from school, just as a shepherd. I believe that women are more and more pastors now. I had some time as a zookeeper in Christchurch, but it didn 't too good, because in the city....



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วันเสาร์ที่ 17 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Managing Third Party Logistics Relationships

Outsourcing all or part of your company's supply chain, Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider is now the norm in the industry. However, it is important that the right vendor who can meet your specific needs and identify the maintenance of a stable and healthy relationship with to look after the contract with him / she has dyed. This article discusses ways to get the most out of your 3PL relationships, so that these advantageous for both sides, both theContractors.

Managing Relationships:

The relationship with your logistics provider does not end with the signing of the contract. In fact, in many ways, it is only the beginning. You have to maintain the same responsibility for relations with, so she sought the benefits that you received at competitive prices.

• Top management support: logistics costs represent a significant portion of the budget of a company. It is therefore important that theRelationship with the PL-party is part of the company's strategy and helps in the long run. This is only possible if top management support and commitment from the outset. Such an obligation will penetrate to the lower ranks. The Board is responsible for this function should be consistent with the vision and goals, but with logistics experience. Efficient supply chains have a major impact on business performance and may lead to improvement of serviceLevels.

• Contracts: 3PL providers have a tendency to emphasize too strongly to their abilities and promise more than they can deliver. A close agreement with expectations, responsibilities and performance parameters clearly defined, provide the basis for a lasting relationship. Avoid platitudes and stick to quantifiable performance. The contracts are the basis of the relationship, but it is futile to point out every other day in an attempt to enforce it. Instead, createa climate of trust, so that functional efficiency are optimized. The conflict resolution mechanism should be clearly included in the contract.

• Functional Leeway: If the services of a 3PL service providers have been instructed, it shall be allowed full operational freedom. If your research was good and you have employed a competent agency, it is his duty to use it, his expertise and used the freedom to provide services under contract. Their role is hereinafter referred to the relationship and managementnot the services available. In general, experts in their field, service providers have the latest technologies suited to their area of operation. It is in the interests of tenants who update their own systems to bring them at par with those of the 3PL provider, so that synergies are fully exploited.

• Integration: The customer needs to ensure that all systems involved in the supply chain are fully integrated. Individual functions such as procurement,Manufacturing, finance and distribution are fully integrated with 3PL providers. This alone will ensure that they achieve the larger business goals.

Selection of a competent and 'best of breed "3PL providers in important decision. The outsourcing decisions are strategic in nature and must have the commitment of top management. Much responsibility rests on the client to ensure that the relationship is good is maintained and provides maximum value.



Why You Need to Choose Your Transport Provider With Care?

Cargo transportation is not about moving cargo from point A to point B. In fact, it is much more than this point. If you want to move freight, you should not be seen with regard to the most convenient way to transport the cargo. Rather you should focus on the payment for a service because the transportation and logistics piece is one of the most important parts of the transport of cargo.

If your freight delivered on time, are safe and healthy, you should be approaching a> Logistics companies. Usually a logistics company is specialized in offering this service and it is well equipped to deal with all necessary information to goods across international borders and national transport handle. In addition, a logistics company will also be able to tell you what kind of transportation is required for a particular type of cargo.

In addition, you will be able to cargo insurance, received an option to track the movement of goods, and even take advantage ofFacility for the storage offered by the company you should need it.

Remember, the transport can be international, long distance or local delivery. Not all carriers are equipped to handle all types of transportation. Therefore, you must select your service provider with care.

International shipments require customs documentation and inspection. The customs clearance will depend on your choice of supplier and these in turn affect your delivery is eitherpositive or negative.

Can also be inter-modal cargo transportation, where the cargo transported by other means or vehicles and includes the unloading of goods. If your service provider is good, then you can escape with minimal or no damage of goods.

Freight may be very trivial, but if you want to achieve customer satisfaction and customer enthusiasm, you should have a greater focus on selecting the right kind of transportationService provider for your business needs. It can make the difference in meeting your delivery deadlines, reduce your costs and profitability of repeat orders from a customer.



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วันศุกร์ที่ 16 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

How to Write a Business Proposal

Writing a business proposal can be like a daunting task to appear. Where do I start? What should I say? How do I know if I have a suggestion that my clients have written to be understood? Business proposals are an increasingly important aspect of a modern, professional business. With increasingly stringent regulations for companies, almost everything a company with a document that your individual business needs, and offers everything indicates that encapsulates can sometimes seem like aimpossible task.

Fortunately, there are some simple steps you can follow to ensure your business proposal that delivers the right results. What are they? Time to take a closer look at our proven test procedures and how to make a business proposal that wins every time impressions!

The Golden Rule 4 - The 4 word business proposal checklist

We can summarize our business proposal writing process with 4 words, that a simple checklist form for your business offer:

* Who?

*Why?

* What?

* How?

Notice the order in which these 4 checklists address. They are deliberately so ordered. Before you send a business proposal is intended to decision-makers, please, please make sure you have asked yourself, set up these 4 simple questions. Let's examine this more closely.

The Who Question

Quite simply, you know your customers? Do you know what they really want? Or did you just think, you know what they sell.Remember, your customers some problem that they are looking for a solution. Are you really in line with what is it? Does your proposal provide a clear definition of the business problem or opportunity to resolve your proposal?

The why question

Why the client should hire you? What differentiates you from competitors? Why us? This is probably the most difficult question to answer, in every store. We all suffer from the competition. Somebody Somewhere is always argue in a position to compete with you andoffer a better price or better quality of final products. Why should the gig than your competitors?

As for the question

Now you've made sure you really know everything about your prospective customers and you have the ability to differentiate themselves from competition. Good start! Now it's time to tell them exactly what you deliver for them. When I sit down to write a business proposal that is put together so often the easiest part of the document. We all know that our ownBusiness better than anyone else. But be very careful, this is where you can easily fall down. Never ever go out of your customer, know nothing about your company and what you do. It sounds stupid, at first glance. But think about it. How much deep industry knowledge, your customers about your company and what do you? How well they know each other on the specific jargon? Do they even really know what are the issues that you so eloquently in your proposal, answeredDocument. A golden rule of thumb I is for my proposals, "Will my mother know what I mean when I read this to them?" If my mother is there, then my client is is. This may sound oversimplified, but not always overestimate your audience. Of course it can also elements of the proposal are required when you get into technical details, but your resume should always be simple and clear to those who read familiar with your industry. In this way, will ensure, that yourCustomer "will" from the beginning.

The question of how

It is important to tell your customers how you hold you to your promise. Who will be involved in the delivery of your products or services? If the customer must be involved? And if so, what is expected of them? Depending on your company can plan a project of vital importance to be, then the customer can know how their product / service to be delivered.

Wrapping it up

So you have it. Thissimple checklist will go a long way to ensure your success in the preparation of proposals to win new business. We have a proposal out the door without our golden rule of the 4 have obeyed!

Until next time, happy proposal writing!



วันพุธที่ 14 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Tips to Save on Logistics Cost

When we talk about logistics, there are two aspects. There are inbound and outbound logistics logistics. Inbound logistics includes everything from the purchase of raw materials to manufacture the surface of goods is connected outbound logistics supply and distribution of finished goods to customers and clients.

There are four major parts of the logistics and they are purchasing or procurement, transport, handling and storage of goods.Here are some tips to save on logistics costs in each of these areas.

Procurement:
If there is to buy raw materials, a company should always look for more suppliers, the favorable conditions of the tender offer can be. If necessary, the raw materials are imported. However, care should be taken to change the supplier is not too often. Instead, the person responsible for the procurement should have good negotiating skills.

In addition, it always helps to know the exact cost of,Purchasing an item. That means the cost of freight, customs, brokerage and costs associated with the inventory. It is only after all these costs, a company can compare the prices of the two providers and then choose the best solution.

Sometimes, working with suppliers who can supply just in time to help the company and the inventory in the purchase, it can reduce the storage costs involved.

A company should also think the use of cheaper substitutes, if possible, rather thanfor ever by high raw material costs.

Transportation:
It is always prudent financial planning, the mode of transportation on the basis of quantity and quality of the goods will be delivered to choose. Whether you use air, water, rail or road, everyone has its own advantages and disadvantages, and you should know 'basis. Choosing the right mode of transportation can help reduce costs and damage to property. Moreover, it may also reduce the in-transit and stocks. This is particularlytrue if the goods are transported by road. When the shortest route is selected, it will save much time.

Another way to reduce transport costs, is brought together by the freight consolidation where smaller quantities of goods to make larger quantities, and only then will they be transported.

Cover:
Sometimes when a company requires supplies or raw materials urgently, it ends up to ask the seller to the entire shipment via express service to send too. This can be veryexpensive for the company. However, these unnecessary costs can be avoided by a little calculation and planning, since they give the amount of urgently needed. Then just what is required to be sent be sent by express service, while the other is of normal service. In trade, the company can reduce its costs dramatically.

Inventory:
A business, it can reduce capital costs by ensuring that there is a balance between supply and demand. It is important toa good inventory management system are such that excess inventory is not established.

It makes sense, in no particular order, since many vendors give reduced prices to those commands. This way, you may also have set aside for emergencies such as fire, theft, accident or natural disaster.

Have lesser storage places on the demand. In this way a corporate risk pools and reduces the overall cost of implementing inventory.



วันอังคารที่ 13 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

IUNGO #10 Lavorare per eccezzioni

Iungo, e-supply chain, supply chain management, supply chain execution, supply chain collaboration, execution, and coordination across the adaptive supply chain network, supply chain execution aziendale for SAP R3, integrare i fornitori, network, impresa estesa extended ERP, fornitori portals, e-mail strutturata, e-mail strutturata, supplier portal, SAP, BAAN, JDE, BPCS, Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV, DIAPASON, Manem, Joinet, Net-Integration ... Iungo e-Supply Chain Supply Chain ...



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วันจันทร์ที่ 12 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Managing Supply Chain in a Tough Economy: Part 3 of 4

Rob Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and Director of Supply Chain Resource Cooperative shares and presents preliminary results of the survey of supply chain managers and the actions they take, and not During this downturn in economic. This presentation took place in December 2008 McKimmon Center on the campus of NC State during a Supply Chain Resource Cooperative event ....



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Trucking Companies - Export-Import Management

Export and import management of material goods, depends very much on the forwarding of a nation. Trucks are the main components of the transportation system of a country. They act as a vital link in the supply chain system of a country. Almost every country in this world has developed special economic zones in their area. Trucks to the domestic transport of cargo from these economic zones in other parts of the countryand vice versa. Thus, they are indirectly contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP) of a country.

Growth and development of a country depends heavily on its export and import management. Trucking software technology has been indirectly involved in the efficient management of export and import system contributed to the whole world, by systematic changes in the operation of freight forwarders. Improvement in exports will help earn a nation's huge foreign exchange earnings. Moreover, it isleads to domestic growth by widening the sales market for the domestic producers. On the other hand, import of goods enable a nation to adopt new technologies and goods imported from other nations. Imports generally leads to a healthy competition among the domestic producers of any nation. Trucking companies play a vital role in the overall orientation of the export and import system of any nation; as they are the most important factors for transporting items from one place to another.

Trucking Software has not only the truck industry, but has also triggered a pulse, the efficiency of the entire system of export and import management. The remarkable properties of standard trucks to navigate the software have expanded opportunities for freight forwarders in the arena of export and import business. Prior to forwarding to act only as suppliers of goods between two places, but with the advent of this high truck softwarethese companies expand their business horizons in the field of export and import of goods. Web-based trucking software further induce the element of efficiency in the system of the truck business.

Nobody can predict whether the carriers successfully transit and are transformed into export and import people or not. But one thing is sure that we are not the contribution of the carriers in the efficient management of export and may undermineImport system of a country. Transportation of goods by using the truck software are pro-actively in the growth and development of various peoples around the world.



วันเสาร์ที่ 10 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Profitable Growth and the Basics of Lean Manufacturing

In their efforts to move closer to the customers, many manufacturers have focused on what a company should lose the primary success factor - profitable growth. In the modern manufacturing industry, today's environment, it takes more than quick fixes, outsourcing and downsizing for companies consistently achieve their goals of growth and profit. While these options may cause temporary financial relief, they are not the way to long-term growth and profitability. For growing companies, andconsistently exceed expectations on the bottom line, they have to get slim. And you must reject the fundamentals of lean manufacturing champion.

In the last 30 years we were led to believe that computerized systems, the solution to all of our growth and profit targets would provide challenges. Material requirements planning (MRP) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system gurus assured us that if we were their software programs, the bottom line itself implemented provide. Well, it is nothappened! Like most perceived panaceas, each of these programs received a lot of hype, produced a few successes to help but in general, contributed little to identify companies and their full growth and profit potential.

For a measure of the shortcomings, one needs only some time in an MRP planned production spending - especially in recent weeks, the final financial quarter. In a typical enterprise will be, you will find that the transformation of the quarterlyfinancial perspective, the reality still requires overtime, internal / external to accelerate, last minute "on-the-run" product changes and even a little "smoke and mirrors". Results are scrap, rework, and ensure that the cost of delivering a negative on profitability and the quality and delivery problems is less than acceptable customer satisfaction. The companies have many thousands of dollars in pursuing MRP and ERP only stayed to watch their growth and profits decline due to uncontrolled operating costs thatproduced non-competitive prices.

So, after introducing MRP / ERP computer systems and more, why is it that most companies are still fighting to maintain profitable growth and are not where close to achieving its growth and earnings potential? The first reason is simple - the results of any computer system will be achieved only as good as the people at the controls and the integrity of the data they provide. The second is complex - most manufacturing managers facing major day to dayProblems and constraints are a totally reactive management style. Therefore, their time with "band-aid" and / or paths can be found, to include system and process analysis - they leave little or no time working analyze claims and to eliminate the root causes of ineffective systems and processes. How can you shoot like a classic "cart before the horse" syndrome? What is needed first a company-wide, a deep understanding of the fundamental of lean manufacturing and then a totalCommitment to the consistent and persistent implementation of lean manufacturing principles.

As Vince Lombardi, the successes achieved by his team to concentrate on the mastery of football basics - we need our production teams have focused on the mastery of the lean manufacturing principles. These foundations require proactive planning and execution, the tough requirements of leadership beyond just satisfying "day-to-day responsibilities. Some managers can not imagine the benefits of controlManufacturing bases, while others simply can not find the time. How to practice blocking and fighting in football, it's not exciting, and run like most football heroes, managers prefer to use the ball. But without the tenacious and flawless execution of lean manufacturing basics, companies will seldom achieve their full potential for growth and profit. Delineated below, the main principles of Lean Manufacturing:

Information Integrity: It is not uncommon for front office managementdisappointed with computerized systems results when time schedules and promised repayments are not met. Truism: acceptable systems results can not be achieved if the systems are driven by inaccurate data and early, uncontrolled documentation.

Performance Management: Measurement systems can motivate or de-motivational. The different objectives of the 80s is a good example of de-motivational measurement - it tested one individual or one group against another, and duringSatisfaction of individual egos, if they have little to overall business strategy of growth and profit. Today, the balanced scorecard is the choice of manufacturing process winners.

Sequential Production: It takes more than systems sophistication for manufacturing companies, control of the factory operations to win. To the on-time deliveries to healthy profit margins, companies need to replace obsolete MRPII / ERP shop scheduling method with the simplicity of sequential production.Manufacturing leaders who order their MRP shop start "and expedite" methodology with continuous production lines, which are supported by real-time imagery supply chains replaced ... sequential production. The assertion that sequential production only works in high production, widget-manufacturing environments is a myth.

Point-of-Use-Logistics: Material handling and storage are two of the high cost of production, non-value-added supply chainManagement activities. The removal of the warehouse, as it is known today, was a strategic objective of all manufacturers. The shift of production parts and components from the warehouse, but their production at the time of use is really a return to fundamentals and significant costs associated reducer.

Cycle Time Management: Long cycle times are symptoms of poor performance and high production of non-value added costs. Manufacturers need to focus on the continuous reduction of all cycle times.Together, success requires a specific management style that focuses on "cause" proactive problem solving, but as a "firefighting."

Production Linearity: Companies will never yield their full potential if they are planning more than 25% of their monthly shipment, finished in the last week of a month or more than 33% of their quarterly shipment plan in the last month of the quarter. How do your production departments produce linear The captain of the company's plan? AsCompanies are struggling to remain competitive, one of the strategies by which gains in speed, quality and costs can be achieved, is to follow the form teams of employees and achieve linear production.

Resource Planning: One of the major challenges in the industry today is the timely right sizing of operations. The profit margins are overlooked by non-timely downsizing and market policies and windows are losing customers is not undermined by upsizing the direct labor in a timely manner. TheseActions demand timely, tough decisions, accurate, timely and reliable information is needed for this resource.

Customer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction is in the eyes of the beholder - the customer. Perceptions are what we have to tackle when it comes to improving customer satisfaction. It does not do us good to have the best products and services if the customer received the perception of our "quality and service is unsatisfactory. We need to plan and implement proactive projectsthat the collapse of communication to create barriers to invalid customer perceptions.

While many companies have one or more of these gurus production as an important basis for the successful pursuit of the classified business excellence ", was the fundamental importance of lean manufacturing principles in the dissemination of losing keywords, and the mania of systems sophistication. We say it is time for companies to conduct an influence on the development of sophisticated systems to ensure that set themselves in debt,Every day the chaos. In its place, they should immediately an action learning program designed to recruit a company-wide understanding and acceptance of the importance of the basics of lean manufacturing. Once buy-in and commitment have been achieved, aggressive planning and tenacious implementation follow. In short, we put the "horse before the cart" - such a program will build a solid foundation for redefining and revitalizing a company's pursuit of profitable growth.



วันศุกร์ที่ 9 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

DIAGTRES SC2 VIDEO DEMO

Demostración del Sistema SC2 Supply Chain Scorecard desarrollado por DIAGTRES. SC2 es un sistema que permite la presentación de indicadores independientemente de los sistemas informáticos de gestión de la empresa. ... diagtres SC2 Supply Chain Scorecard KPI dashboard diagram



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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 8 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

Liftonderhoud inkopen - DPA Supply Chain People

Van de inkoop liftonderhoud: oersaai lijkt het waar is maar niets less. DPA Supply Chain People in Detachering gespecialiseerd, advies en werving & selectie op gebied van inkoop, logistiek s operations. Kijk voor meer informatie op www.dpasupplychainpeople.com



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วันพุธที่ 7 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2552

SAP for Retail "From Sheep To Shop"

This lovely little video shows how SAP Solution Portfolio Trading Company with the skills they need to be able to offer their entired, Global Supply Chain Operations Management "Sheep to Shop." Starting with the idea for a new dress design in the fashion industry, you will follow the whole story from beginning to end: Purchase of Wool, a farmer in a foreign country side, starting production in the fashion manufacturers, the management of international Transport, seamless cross-...



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Reverse Logistics in Supply Chain Management

The development of reverse logistics for manufactured products is developing in direct proportion to the rapid advances in technology and the subsequent fall in prices of the products as new and improved products in the supply chain at a faster pace. With such thin margins, and so much competition, mismanagement of the supply chain be a killer. To capture these organizations with the infrastructure and compare the composite value of componentscosts with real-time analysis and intelligent arrangement based on changes in the rehabilitation, re-sale value, replacement parts, repair and overall demand will not only be profitable, but such flexibility and scalability will enable them to outmaneuver and eliminate competition.

This is a case of modern Darwinism. It is survival of the fittest. It requires the co-integration in supply chain logistics, or appear on the list of endangered species. EvenThe powerful predator, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was threatened with extinction by the constant progress of the development is doomed to failure. Today, technology drives evolution at an amazing pace. The ability to migrate to grasp, to integrate and facilitate the intelligent analysis of data is comparable with the discovery of fire. This is what the companies vertically from those who are stuck in the tar pits of the slow reaction can go to separate.

The first days of reverse logistics have been measured by convenienceCustomers and accommodation. The focus was on the front end of the return process will be the opportunity for consumers in a position to be unwanted or defective merchandise back. The ability to facilitate a return of the consumer, was a courtesy, which made a compelling competitive advantage in retail. The companies that are not the support of consumers found themselves at a strategic disadvantage to those who did were, and were eventually forced to adopt the same convenience of consumers, or lose customersfor competition.

It did not take long for retailers to seek the same concessions from manufacturers and distribution channels. Stock rotation to a normal state of the economy and processes for returning the defective product has been common practice. Although it is now accepted as self-evident, it is not always so. Even today, there are cultural differences to consumer is, especially for product that is not defective and back, because the'customer remorse'.

As the cost of Reverse Logistics continued to increase, and as the methods of transportation became more sophisticated, manufacturers and distributors began to look for alternatives in transportation for savings. Planning and consolidating freight for return products was identified as a way to reduce expenses related to fuel and labor. This also led to detailed analysis of transportation options, like truck, air and railway. In Supply Chain

The next step in the evolution of reverse logistics has been the experimentation and cost comparison between multiple local hubs and single, consolidated revenue centers. The simple analysis for savings compared with the cost of warehouse space and manpower, with the amount of freight and transportation fees for the processing of the rear end of the supply chain.Other factors also played an important role in financial analysis, including volume, material and inventory control.

Since the cost of Reverse Logistics continued to rise, the importance of returning the goods restored to the market was also higher. Organizations began to financial importance for the devaluation of the product for each day lost its significance, transport, handling, processing or storage. As the technology and enhanced features, price and demandremoved for aging product, such as the ability to recoup costs from returns. Speed return to the market could be measured in resale value.

The next step of the reverse logistics development, there was an awakening and the realization that Reverse Logistics is the only part of the entire back-end services solution. Consolidation means more than just the consolidation has, it means the consolidation of activities in connection with the back-end operations. Manufacturers began toConsolidation of parts and materials in the same hall as the returned goods, the discovery that it is cheaper to move parts and packaging materials through a corridor, as beyond the state borders. Parts used to return renovations were housed in the same building. Under this concept a step further, manufacturers began depot repair operations within the same facility to consolidate the recovery of parts, labor, warehousing and material to maximize. This activity oftennecessary coordination between the various management and operational before groups within large organizations. The combined efforts of reducing costs for all participating departments and groups within organizations.

The next big step in the evolution of reverse logistics is working with partners and external resources. There is a greater awakening and realization of integration with the entire supply chain by using data exchange. It begins withan understanding of the value of the components that produced a finished product that includes the Bill of Materials (BOM). The BOM is also procure from manufacturers for the prognosis and an inventory of spare parts used for repairs to administer. Often, the cumulative sum of the individual components of the cost of the original retail product. Furthermore, due to the decrease in price to the cost of some products for repair at the cost of replacing the entire system. Manufacturer must be renovated to make quick decisions about the financial return on investment for returned products, repair or replace any defective product warranty, and the potential resale value for refurbished products back into the market. Manufacturers must also weigh the potential costs for the procurement of inventory, if spare parts to support service, warranty and guarantee of rules. In order to be truly effective, the manufacturer shall make these decisions before the returned goods to the inverse> Supply chain, even after it in her.

Manufacturers have the opportunity to collect data on the activities that demand. Employees to include demand planning failure rate or rate of repair, require spare parts. Right at the front end can yield potential repair trends and tendencies are identified by the customers technical support or customer service calls. Quality analysis of returns and defective products can also be used to identify requirements forSpare parts planning. Resale value trends for refurbished products, and seasonal sales cycles can be used to predict demand and resale value for refurbished products, and if the product cost to be renovated or repaired. In some cases, the parts can actually be sold for more greater extent than the entire product. At least parts of return products can be harvested, mix, and repair of other defective return products comply with avoidance of expensive spare parts, ifapplicable. All these factors contribute to the planning of the demand for a refurbished product or its components.

Once you know the demand and resale value for parts and whole units, then it's only a matter of maintaining an intelligent design engine that uses the input to analyze the Bill of Materials for returned products. Before the product in the Reverse Logistics Supply Chain, an immediate and intelligent decision on theValue and intended disposition of the whole unit or its components. In some cases the product will be scheduled for de-feed configuration, remedial action or to develop a spare parts for warranty repairs. In other cases, the units for the rehabilitation and resale can be accelerated. Some products may be scheduled to be scrapped for environmentally friendly materials. Size and perhaps even de-configuration retail site to support local customer requirements and thus avoid the transportation of goodswhole. Whatever may be the result, the decision before the product will be in the reverse logistics supply chain cycle, as long as the intelligent engine with continuously updated and accurate information. The new task and the new solution is knowing what you have sold, who will return it and what it really is worth before she was alone.

It is hard to believe that there are still companies millions of dollars a year to investthe instruments of procurement and inventory management of spare parts forecasting, without accurate forecasting and managing the largest single source of added value components, the results of the return merchandise. There are still companies who struggle for freight savings alone through negotiation or consolidation to achieve without avoiding the achievement of a balanced approach to freight transport, localization and intelligent de configuration available. In the competitive landscape of the rapid development of technology,Mass production and eroding profit margins, managing the total supply chain and the interconnection of components is important to reduce costs and to financial survival. To ignore this aspect of reverse logistics can be not only expensive, it can be fatal for a company.

For consumer electronics and computer products, the reverse logistics are other rules for the handling of compliance and RoHS regulations, such as complicated controls electrical and electronic equipment,materials for lead and mercury, to name a few. In recognition of these components is absolutely necessary to forward the proper management of the intelligent engine which can be the disposition of the return promptly after the announcement that returns the product type cycle. Proper management is rewarded not only financially, but in the case of hazardous substances, it is the law.

In operation, in order to be competitive, to be the first to the services that would otherwise share yourout of business. If you do, you are personally your political rivals out of business, or at least they have working for you. Gathering the data that relates to customer call centers, extended warranty services, spare parts, resale value, parts procurement costs and the threat is often requires extensive cooperation, integration and data exchange. To be successful, it is often necessary to use partners with several organizations and experts, best practices in a collaborativeEnvironment. The companies integrate, collaborate, and optimize return date will be the competitive advantages of improved margins and enjoy precision management. The organizations that will not participate as fabulous fossils remain in my memory.

Words of Wisdom

"The Supply Chain Logistics, you are either a drive of the truck, which a pump the gas, to pay for one or the other two."
- John Mehrmann

"The old ways aredead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction."
- Hugh Macleod

"In service, to be competitive is to be the first to to deliver the service, otherwise you would be out of business. If you do this, you are your competitors out of business, or at least they have place for you to work. "
- John Mehrmann



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Huisvesting inkopen - DPA Supply Chain People

Inkoop van huisvesting: toegevoegde waarde van de te weinig INKOP user. DPA Supply Chain People in Detachering gespecialiseerd, advies en werving & selectie op gebied van inkoop, logistiek s operations. Kijk voor meer informatie op www.dpasupplychainpeople.com



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Future packaging, logistics, distribution, supply chain ...

www.globalchange.com paper and packaging industry. Future of sustainable packaging, paper, logistics. Demographics, digital impact, distribution and destiny.Distribution and packaging - minimization of waste. Simple, cheap, sturdy and light - competition with plastics packaging. Easier to justify sustainability. RFID scanning of packages and products. Printing aerials with the implementation of ink. Rapid Growth of RFID tags in supply chain management, logistics and distribution. New technologies in paper ...



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Supply Chain Managment And Point-of-Use Logistics

Companies will never reach their full growth and profit potential, let alone the benefits of their supply chain management system to gain as long as business continues to talk about the value provider, has partnerships to continue to treat their suppliers as adversaries.

Material handling and inventory storage are two of the high cost of production, non-value adding activities. The removal of the warehouse, as it is known today, was a strategicThe aim of all manufacturers. Moving material for their point-of-use is not a new concept, the automotive industry have done so from the beginning and all industries with success, had point-of-use, inexpensive hardware.

Supply chain development is the key, and it is time to recognize that there is still much more to increasing supplier contribution to gross profits than by simply ordering the lowest price bidder. "Strategic outsourcing", which always focus onright materials in the right quantity at the right place at the right time and at the lowest "total cost" must "against-up" on suppliers for price reduction to replace alone.

A manufacturer of electronic components, test equipment, in response to the need to increase factory floor space, a new multi-function tester, construction decided to convert the problem of space for storing items in a production area. It was agreed that none of the new tester parts would enter the rest of the warehouse and that all common partswould be relocated their production to areas such as point-of-use "inventory. The key to this project was a success supports the development of an efficient suppliers, the timely and innovative "point-of-use" logistical support. High integrity, communication, scheduling flexibility / responsiveness, high quality, special materials, transportation and storage racks and a positive "continual improvement" mentality had developed some of the characteristics of the relationship.Three years after the start of the project was the manufacturer with a market leader, and the majority of funding goes, supports their supplier development team and powerful supplier, which it helped develop.

In today's competitive business world, many manufacturing companies are turning to value-added supplier partnerships to achieve the performance, availability of materials is a prerequisite for a successful point-of-use logistics. When a company forms a partnership thatleads to one of the links in the supply chain, both of which benefit from the other's success. The power of the supplier partnerships can not be denied. To a large extent they have the best of both worlds: the coordination and the level of large enterprises and the flexibility, creativity and low overhead usually associated in small businesses.

Suppliers have knowledge and insights, but not charged with the Guidelines from a remote location. You do not have long forms to fill outand make weekly reports and to act immediately, without consulting with a thick manual of standard operation procedures. In a growing number of industries, value-added providers prove to be a fiercely competitive - delivering high quality, competitively priced materials to precise buyer schedule requirements.

An excellent way of establishing the partnership relationship with each other, treat it as an extension of their own business. The value-added supplier should be seenPartner for services such as special requests such as assistance for capital investment and training needs and maybe some process engineering or quality engineering assistance. The acquisition partners, on the other side, you have delivered to the supplier partner for product development input, cost containment ideas and high quality parts / components / assemblies at the right time, in the right quantity and at the lowest possible "total cost".

Most entrepreneurs underestimate the depth and breadth ofBusiness skills that are necessary to initiate, and promote an effective supply chain program. Typically, these leaders hold suppliers at arm's length and keep the fight for economic gain for themselves. In fact, organizations often try to secure a supplier for the control of their own profits, weaken it. This is obviously ridiculous and is the first obstacle, though point-of-use is logistic, it can be successfully implemented to overcome - because without a strong supplier network mayno point-of-use logistics.

Business travel in the pursuit of point-of-use logistics proponents should respond: 1) business integrity, 2) from day to day supplier cooperation, 3) the free exchange of information, 4) decision-making and 5) provider profits. Supplier development and strategic outsourcing needs has been a "done from the top down" commitment and investment to produce an "it" team of experts, it can happen.



The Importance of Using Logistics Measures Tool

All societies throughout the world - no matter what the industry will be fully aware of the fact that it is necessary to meet the needs of customers. For this reason, there are several indicators that are created to ensure that companies provide only the best services for their customers. As everyone knows entrepreneurs are the customers of one of the biggest reasons why they are still in the industry. They are also among the causes of the rivalry between the companies. For this reason, there is agreat need for organizations to bring their best foot forward and offer only excellent products for their customers. The companies are to attract the attention and support to consumers, so their search for things that allow them to do business to encourage their customers and ultimately improve, whereupon they must focus. For this reason, they have to ensure different types of practices in order to give them the best for their customers. One of them is through the use ofMeasures, the logistics tool.

The logistics activities tool for logistics indicator used. This is important and offers many advantages for the company. Among the most popular is that this instrument will help ensure you that the services you provide and can provide faster and faster. This is something that is too serious, especially for those enterprises which are concentrated in retail trade. It is no secret that these companies have in the present productPerformance in all conditions of the process. This is like the backbone of the business, because without this aspect is not all procedures. That is why every company must make is the use of the logistics tool measures especially in the logistics department. This makes it possible to ensure that transactions are smooth and successful.

Logistics is how the various processes with supply chain of the organization, either public or affected Viewedprivate. Supply chains are regarded as one of the most important departments of various companies. This is because if is the management of the supply chain is good and effective, there is no doubt that the company will most likely succeed. So, when a supply-chain management is taken for granted, it will give the green light to the demise of the entire company. With the logistics activities tool, the owners have easily installed the policies and procedures that they believe areessential to the triumph of the company.

The tools for logistics activities will help the executive in whether the considerations of the various aspects that are important for the company and if the results achieved, he will be able to come to good decisions. They will also aid in keeping a clear overview of the company's situation and condition at the present time. Obviously, this is essential due to the fact that this will help the managers or supervisors to identify the areas thatRequire attention, and they can make improvements to it without too much difficulty. Without a doubt, the logistics activities is a valuable tool business tool that companies can benefit from it.



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12 Planes And 380 Tons! Red Bull Air Race Logistics

The Red Bull Air Race can be a great sporting and physical challenge for the drivers, but it's also a great challenge for the Red Bull Air Race Logistics team, the fever is working away from the limelight, to ensure that each race is the ground without a smoothly in 10 different locations around the world. The high costs of infrastructure, which is packed and shipped include events around the world, the State Grid, which is the tower at the temporary runway, the High Flyer's Lounge ...



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Logistics At Dell

In the business world is the method that uses a particular company to get its products from factory to consumer, different. These methods are very demanding and often define the efficiency, quality and ultimately the success or failure of a particular company. A special logistical system that is interesting is the system that Dell uses to deliver its computers from the factory to the customer.

If you ever bought a Dell computer, you know that youcan fully customize your Dell computer and that guarantees delivery of your computer in a certain time frame. To such a tremendous service to their customers it seems to cost Dell a tremendous amount of unused inventory and storage costs. You could also ask to make such as Dell, as this can work. The truth is that Dell is currently conducting no inventory and, in fact, that they force their suppliers to carry the inventory and therefore assume the provider anythe risks and costs associated associated with this assessment.

The first step in this incredibly profitable logistics system is, if the customer enters his or her data for the computer that he or she will buy. Transporting If Dell receives and processes this information, they send a job to each supplier and each piece in a place where the product can be assembled. Then Dell simply expands the item and sends it to the customer. Dell is not responsible foran inventory and yet incredibly must pay for all unused parts of the proceedings. Dell logistical system is working correctly and it would be almost to the casual observer that Dell has actually developed a sophisticated system that they seem to run their businesses this way. But the reality is that a logistics system has been like this go up with, but the difference is that no other company was able to convince their suppliers to go along with an arrangement thatIt will cost so much. It is very difficult for a company to convince a provider of it, to ensure that there is a certain number of parts in stock and ready for use and do not offer a guarantee that they will be paid in exchange for the parts. From the perspective of suppliers, it would not take the advantage of all the risk of unused inventory.

Such as Dell believes its suppliers to agree to a system in which the provider accept all responsibility and takesover-forecast of sales and selling parts is still a mystery. One of the few options that Dell chooses small suppliers and ensure that the majority of sales are made at Dell. Dell then uses that position, forcing them to take part in a logistical system that is clearly not beneficial to the supplier. In order to Dell for the supplier, for this to happen is the turnover high, so keep that Dell provide the individual suppliers to keep the economy enough water and canprofitably be. The offer is of course easier said than done, and that is the reason why Dell is one of the few companies that a product that will be individually tailored and can be quickly delivered to the consumer can.