Albatross Anchor - Essay

Report findings and conclusions from the research project (remember to include your action plan given to you at the beginning of the course) (P6)

Current manufacturing costs are $8.00 per pound for mushroom/bell anchors and $11.00 per pound for snag hook anchors. Albatross Anchor charges the same per unit as their competitors. However, the profit margin can sometimes be as much as 35% less (on some of the anchors) because of operations inefficiencies.

After AFI purchase the product (oil), AFI will do booking shipment with the PEL. They as agent of haulage and forwarder. They contact shipping liner sent the empty container to the yard of TA. After complete loading they will prepare us a Bill of Lading and Clean On Board to AFI.

- Cycle time reduction – the company current Order to Deliver (OTD) process is between 60 and 15 days.

Typically the materials that are unloaded are: Wood, Steel, and larger tools that cannot be brought from regular trucks.

Another potential problem is high variability between what the customer wants and what is provided by the company. The high lead times are delaying orders by 40 percent. There are three

Distribution- Finished products leave processing plants and find their way to the global marketplace via the trucks, railcars and barges that make up transportation network.

The warehouse is a very big building where shipments come from all over the country to be shipped to post

Another time and cost saving approach could be the direct-to-store shipments from manufacturer, or dedicating train services to go directly to a specific destination.

Padma is generally experienced is taking care of all sort of Ocean/AIR shipment in all modes like Dandy/CIF/FCA or DDU. In view of client prerequisites the shipments are taken care of.

Express deliveries worldwide; freight forwarding with planes, trucks, ships and trains; warehousing services that go beyond just storage, but include everything from packaging to repairs; international mail deliveries; customized and specialized shipping – if it is about logistics, it is about DHL.

Outbound Logistics: This is divided into three segments. Branch transfers –branch stock replenishment is picked and packed onto pallets and sent via road freight from HO to each branch. Customer courier deliveries – orders are packed and sent via 3rd party couriers from each branch to outlying customers. Customer local deliveries – surrounding customer orders are picked, packed and delivered from each warehouse to surrounding customers. ISA has recently introduced a freight cost saving model to try reduce the ever increasing freight expense to service branches with bulk stock as well as customers.

On this report, we provide information about Shipping Process that we get from APL (American President Lines). As for, the data we got such as the requirement, documents that needed in shipping process, and also the overall shipping process that already told by our resources in the interview. We conduct an interview with Captain Nugroho Subroto as the Chief of Operation Advisor of APL (American

I DECLARE THAT I HAVE COMPLETED THIS PROJECT ON EXPORT AND IMPORT STRATEGY FOR THE SHIPPING LINES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY SUBMITTED IS TRUE AND ORIGINAL TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

(a)   Using the 8 questions in page 75 of your text book but start reading from page 71 under the heading of - Determining what to research, and stop at the 8 questions. , propose a research topic and Justify it choice.