Essays on Order Fulfillment

Introduction

The organization is looking at establishing the new reception and distribution operation for the finished goods, produced outside the domestic market. The market complexity, costs and operational efficiency in downstream logistics are critical to the success of the new venture. Importantly, the recommended warehousing operation should take into account the geographical spread of the customer base to the West Coast and Northeast of the United States as well as Canada. The purpose of this document is to present a preliminary analysis of the market trends, associated with the warehousing activities for similar operations and provides the recommendation, which would ...

Summary Report on the Transfer of the Main Warehouse

Problem Definition Customers in the northern and eastern central regions of the US have been complaining of delays in their shipments. With the weakening of the defense sector, there had been a boom in the commercial aviation sector and the suppliers are also having a hay day. The two largest plane makers Boeing and Airbus had orders of 10,000 planes since 2014 which can last them up to 2014. One reason for the boom was attractiveness of the financing rates at that time and coincided with the state of the aging planes of both. The other reason is ...

Executive Summary

The current global economy is undergoing dramatic changes that make it more technologically dependent as well as information intensive. Fundamentally, the role of logistics is becoming highly crucial in all business entities with an objective to improve and satisfy the customers’ demands, taste and preferences. With the current dynamic changes in logistics networks in the supply chain, organizations are likely to face numerous logistics problems. As a result, they are required to formulate effective Logistics Management concepts and tools to help to assess various logistics problems and improve their operational performance. This paper analyzes the application of some the ...

Introduction

The case of XYZ company’s CRM initiative illustrates how performance contracts with vendors have the potential to be renegotiated midstream. The case also illustrates how various decision makers can reach points of conflict during an initiative’s development and implementation stages. In this particular case, the project manager and head of marketing have reached an impasse in what the design of XYZ’s new CRM product should contain. A contractor that specializes in customer relationship management has already received a set of performance standards for the product and is near halfway complete with the project’s design. Under ...

1. What problems are faced by Chemtech in the following areas: logistics and supply, chain management, purchasing, and marketing? It is apparently clear from the case study that Chemtech is facing a number of problems with regard to logistics and supply, chain management, purchasing, and marketing of its products. With regard to logistics, it is identifiable that the company has no clear framework that ensures that there is proper flow of goods from Canada to its stores. This extends the existing supply problem where its main supplier is not somewhat serious with the current relationship. The main problem that ...