The transportation & logistics industry is a form of industry that keeps people and products on the move, it includes airlines and airports, shipping companies, logistics service providers and other transportation companies. That’s why it is considered the backbone of modern global supply chains. In a place like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has diverse geography with a dry desert and great temperature extremes and a large area of about 2.1 million square km, a transportation & logistics industry is a necessity. Imagine you need to move from one city to another (of course it will be so hard to cross large areas of empty deserts) you have only two options to transfer from one to another city; the first option is to drive and the second option is to fly and ship your car via a car transport carrier. The harsh climate in Saudi Arabia makes people to prefer using the second option, this cause the market of transport market to enlarge. Albassami International Group is one of the biggest companies established to satisfy those needs. It is considered one of the biggest companies specialized in vehicle transportation in the Middle East. The philosophy of the company is to serve the needs of the clients over the span of thirty two years, throughout which they constantly had an eye to the future by evaluating the most appropriate ways in which to make transporting clients’ vehicles via the best and safest answer. They operate round the clock to serve clients at all times. Analysis The mission of the company is to accomplish the customer needs using distinguished and best solutions and by this being eminence among other companies in the same industry. Albassami consider the customer needs the most as a very important factor to succeed... ... middle of paper ... ...e SMS will be sent) who can go to the branch to get his car. The shipping system records information about the sender such as the sender car, truck number, etc.. and it also records information about the client. Then these information are linked together. Reports about each product with information about client and sender are written (let us say weekly) and these reports are sent to the top management so that every process is monitored to follow any problem if found and try to enhance the procedure. Also this information can provide which branch is working the best and which is working the least so to enhance the quality of work. This is a strategy that the company is following in order to reach its objectives found in the mission. References 1. http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/transportation-logistics/index.jhtml 2. http://www.albassami.com.sa/site_eng/company.php 3.
Several large companies have focused on the multi-occupant vehicle market, specifically school bus production, in North America. Competitors within the school bus manufacturing industry consist of the Henlys Group PLC, a British based company, and two U.S. bus companies, Collins Industries Inc. and Navistar International. Henlys consists of Blue Bird Corporation, Prevost Car Inc., Nova Bus and TransBus International Ltd. Collins Industries operates seven vehicle companies including Collins Bus Corporation and Mid Bus Corporation that make up their school bus line. And finally, Navistar International, which also produces school buses, is divided into three principal industry segments. These segments are trucks/buses, engines, and financial services.
3) E-commerce companies use Reverse Logistics and the Forward Logistics to organize all this fuctions: packaging, handling, transporting, storage, processing and other
The scenario depicts Wonderful Widgets, a firm specializing in the manufacturing and distribution of a single product, widgets. The company is able to produce widgets using its current equipment, facility, layout and materials and is able to procure the product through various suppliers. Recently, it has been noted that operational costs have been rising each month.
Air transport is the conveyance of more recent development, and therefore the most modern. This implies the presence of very advanced technological conditions, standardized procedures developed computer worldwide. Rates, flights and destinations are included in international publications, which are available immediately via the Internet or with a simple call to airlines, travel agencies or freight forwarders. Despite these facilities, high costs in the operation, turn the air transport management in a very sensitive within the logistics system where one mistake can mean significant economic consequences appearance. Air transport, its high cost and capacity constraints, is appropriate for covering routes between middle and long distance and charge for shipping small, perishable goods, high value and urgent deliveries. Factors affecting demand for air traffic costs the airlines and therefore passenger fares and freight are included. In recent years the costs of airlines have been adversely affected due to increased insurance costs, in addition to the oil price hikes. Moreover changes i...
For any organization, customer is the most important aspect as the customer is the key for any business and a criteria for success of that business. The type of business can either be a B-C or B-B, but it doesn’t matter. The new paradigm of this
Around the world intermodal transportation has evolved over time. When looking into the aspects of ports and terminals that support the transportation, logistics, as well as the overall supply chain in business today have been founded to have served as beneficial throughout time. Though this may be true, there too have been many ongoing issues with the advancements on technological implementation over the years. Thus fourth, this delay in advancements has caused many ports that were once able to distribute goods turned into holding facilities for those goods instead. This raises the question of how can these non-hub ports support the challenges faces as intermodal transportation grown more and more? In this paper I will determine the underlying
Logistics is the process of planning and controlling the efficient flow and storage of goods, services and related information as they travel from the point of origin to the point of consumption. Transportation, warehousing, purchasing and distribution fall within the scope of logistical planning. Proper managing of logistics can reduce cost and inventory, improve profits and efficiency along with improving an organization a competitive advantage. These are the key elements to a successful supply chain operation. Many companies are choosing to outsource its logistic management such as a 3PL to optimize their performance. Effective logistics management is what separates profitable organizations from potential failures.
Even the most advanced marketing strategies may fail if they will not be supported by appropriate logistics activities. The fact that the product is defined with the best features of its own, attractive price and well promoted is no longer sufficient. These are undoubtedly important factors but it will be difficult to sell this product without finding it on the shelf at the right time, in the right place at the right amount. Thus it is visible of the utility of space and time which are added values to product offered by the manufacturer, enriched by marketing but also additional logistical advantages. (Różycki, Bartosz, 2000). This essay clearly shows how marketing works with logistics, which connects them with the customer service and what makes Converse statement true and valid today.
The logistics and transportation industries are involved in the physical movement of persons and goods. logistics specifically refers to the transportation of good, material and/or products. Sometimes in doing so it may include management of freight, storage, inventory and packing. Logistics and transportation encompass a wide range of activities and it also plays a vital role in the growth of the philippine economy. A thought out extreme competition and grows in global trade gives higher value of tr service sector where transportation, communication and storage is a high component. In 2014, the Service sectors accounted for PHP 6.3 Billion a total of (63.98%) of the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
You want to make sure everyone within the company is customer-focused and willing to meet the needs of the consumers. The goal is to provide extraordinary customer service...ordinarily! When the customers feel that you have their best interest at heart they will stick with you until the end.
A simple definition of logistics would be a type of management toward your resources, raw materials, products and goods on the way of allocation such as obtained or acquired, get stored in the inventory or warehouse then transfer to transport out to the hand of the final consumer or customer at a particular location from warehouse and inventories. The cost that happened along the process also known as the logistics expenditure or cost of logistics process and basically the logistics cost will affect the production cost and operational cost as well as this following research purpose and objective is to discover the relationship between logistics activities and the production cost that whether the logistics activities will affect the production
As part of curriculum of the Graduate Degree at Chitkara University, Rajpura , students are required to do a project in any reputed organization. For this reason, I did my project research in Safe Express,Chandigarh. The project work was titled “Global scenario of logistics & supply chain” & to suggest ways & means to improve the management strategic decisions.
In the first half of the course Advanced Business Logistics, I have found many items that have stood out over the past four weeks. Each weekly lesson plan has been logically broken down into segments that were easily understood and presented in a logical fashion. I have been pleasantly surprised and excited about the course content. I have been aware of many of the topics discussed which have been presented in previous courses but not to the detail that I have found in this current course. Presented below is the information that was the most interesting that has stood out the most thus far in the course.
Logistics is an aspect of military for the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption with the aim of meeting some requirements, of customers or corporations. The resources that are managed in logistics may include abstract and physical items. Abstract items like time, information, particles, and energy. Physical items like food, materials, animals, equipment and liquids. Logistics of any physical item generally involves the integration of information flow, material handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security. The main aim in logistics is the transport and delivery of goods by truck, train, plane or ship. The complexity of logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized, and optimized by dedicated simulation software. The common motivation in logistics is the minimization of the use of resources for import and export. The
...r than individual capabilities. Customers are our inspiration. The company must understand what customer need so provide their need and connects people in order to enhance their lives from the youngest child to the largest corporation.