Business: It's Nature and Environment

CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY CRANFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CRANFIELD CENTRE FOR LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MSc THESIS

Due to the large quantity of freight and the long distance that it must travel to arrive to its destination exporters and importers alike have found logistic service providers essential to engage in international trade (Rodriguez, Comtois, Slack, 2013). While some Logistics service providers focus only on the area of transportation others specialize in freight consolidation, distribution management, and warehousing (Robinson, 2014). They have enough market knowledge, information and communication systems to offer supply chain solutions tailored to the specific needs of any company be it small or large (Rodriguez, Comtois, Slack,

Aronsson et al (2000) have developed a template for a logistics education course. The template addresses functional, process and supply chain needs. The template is currently being prototyped with the principle of ‘gestalt’- the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts.

(Bowersox, D.J., Closs, D.J., and Cooper, M.B. (2010). Supply Chain Logistics Management. (3rd Edition) New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

There are many challenges being faced by the logistics industry today as the companies strive for sustainability. This is because the providers of logistics services have, over a period of several years, found them being integrated into the production processes of their customers, while at the same time, governments and businesses have continued to carefully weigh the issue of logistics in their investment and business decisions. Some of the previous trends and the forces of the operations of logistics that drive the transformation of a Freight forwarding company will be examined. It will focus on theories, conceptual models and frameworks that explain logistic operations. The gaps in the logistics operations and the dangers of not addressing

Some of the main concerns regarding business and the environment include the disposal of waste, the way things are packaged, the emission of carbon and following environmental laws. Because laws are different in every country, it is hard for the environment to maintain healthy as a whole. Businesses must make sure that they store waste securely, protect people from the air pollution they may emit, and reduce or completely eliminate fumes and smoke. In order to be successful in this endeavor, they need to focus their attention on the use of raw materials, their use of energy and the impact that the business has on employees and local consumers.

First of all, I wish to thank Mr. Thanos Kourouklis, head of the Logistics and supply chain Department for helping and guiding me throughout my course with the best of his knowledge and skills. I gladly extend these thanks to Dr AdeBisi Adewole, my supervisor

A Research Project Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of BSc (Hons) Logistics, School of Applied Sciences, The University of Huddersfield, 2011.

The organisation is committing to improving the logistics system to make delivery more efficient; even though the precise figures are not known yet, the intention is there nevertheless. While the logistics in the organisation plays a very important role for product movement to different manufacturing sectors (within the organisation) and to customers

The introduction of recent national and international environmental regulations forces businesses across the world to improve their ecological oriented environmental performance.

Over the past few decades, logistics activities have gained increasing strategic importance for almost every company all over the world. Fixed costs of production have increased, consumer demands have become more complex and are harder to predict, both in time and place. Technology is rapidly changing around the world every new day there is a new and advance technology and product life cycles have shortened while product range has increased. Now more than ever, companies are faced with the challenge of producing an increasingly large variety of products in a responsive manner while keeping materials and inventory to a minimum to fulfill the customer demand

The variability of logistics performance is quite relevant. ALP has not been able to guarantee a reliable service to its customers in the last years. There seems to be a lack of organization when providing the service to the customers, in the sense of establishing priorities and

To cite this document: Janjaap Semeijn, David B. Vellenga, (1995),"International logistics and one-stop shopping", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 25 Iss: 10 pp. 26 - 44 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09600039510101780 Downloaded on: 01-04-2012 References: This document contains references to 27 other documents Citations: This document has been cited by 2 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 2086 times.

Logistics management’s primary focus is on optimizing the delivery of service to customers, by managing complex tradeoffs between customer service, transportation, warehousing and inventory. Some World Class companies have been able to reduce the costs of their logistics operations to 50% of the levels of their competitors.

Forward logistics (or conventional logistics) is the regular distribution channel followed by the manufactures from time immemorial. Forward logistics concentrates on the products (goods or services) reaching the consumer end and deals with the line of flow from the manufacturer’s end to the consumer’s end. It deals with the very essence of Supply Chain Management and logistical activities of an organization. It has a significant impact on the primary operations carried out, which act as the basic revenue generating aspect of a business. In this logistical system, the flow is a “one-to-many” type and the forecasting or traceability is quite simple.