General Environmental Factors And Its Impact On Mainfreight-Global Supply Chain Logistics

The external environment of an organization represents factors outside the company that affect the company's ability to function. The business cannot control these aspects but can answer to these changes if it needed. Of course the main problem for business managers is to manage to respond early to these changes in the external environment, but this depends on how soon any change is identified. Most of external environmental factors for example, economic conditions, are reported daily in the media; managers have a wealth of information with the help of which they can develop strategic plans. Nevertheless, some external factors are difficult to identify, especially when they are changing very slowly or hidden from

Changes within the supply chain can disrupt the normal flow of goods and services because each change hasn’t been fully scrutinized. A firm can plan and speculate that a change with have a certain effect on the supply chain, but until those processes have been measured it is impossible to know the true cause and effect of any disruption.

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During last two decades, the importance of logistics has been noticed around the world. In global markets, the effects and further developments of logistics and supply chain management for corporate success has increased significantly that result in a large amount of companies have taken actual benefits in logistics, such as reducing costs, enhancing customers ' satisfaction and increasing sales. However, some people are confused with the relationship between logistics and supply chain management. Therefore, this essay will argue that logistics management and supply chain management are not exactly the same in operations because of the scope where utilized and some specific activities are similar, but some are different. In the end, this essay will also talk about the reasons for logistics management is an important strategy to manufacturing or service companies.

Supply chain is one of the critical aspects that can make or break any company. The research will also concentrate on aspects of supply chain.

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

Third parties are becoming popular and will continue to be important for having a cost

This includes: Responsible buying, strategic alliances with its suppliers, Appropriate training to its sales / support staff, improving inbound / outbound logistics, and Training / development of staff dealing with imports / customs.

The ISOL + Group produces and sells a series of insulating products for the construction industry, sheathing for pipes, and rigid boards blanket insulation. The firm’s subsidiary has its own production plant and increases its own production capacity through buying from another of the Group’s plants those products it cannot manufacture due to technical reasons or in situations when it is operating at full capacity. The company’s production department is in charge of logistics in addition to other functions such as end-product distribution. The subsidiary, ISOL + FRANCE has initiated an extensive rethinking of logistics matters in the Group. This process was geared towards evaluating the situation

We are all aware about the importance of supply, manufacturing and operations chain for any business. It becomes even more important if we are crossing the borders and entering international marketplaces as we are

In today's world, no business operates in isolation without interacting with the environment where it operates. Irrespective of the nature of business whether public or private organization; manufacturing; service industry; local or international firm, its operations are inhibited by the environment in which it operates.

Singapore has long built its economy on its strategic positioning for trade. The country is now home to the world's second-largest container port according to the World Shipping Council (2013). The country's position as a leading trade makes it a natural place to find solutions to global supply chain issues, and has also encouraged a significant amount of foreign direct investment in the country. Foreign companies have set up shop in Singapore, often in either services or retail. This paper will analyze some of the issues that foreign firms dealing in Singapore have with respect to global supply chain management.

Q1) Globalization has brought about dramatically change in terms on how manufacturers operate as now they are exposed to new customers as well as to greater competition. as a result, relationship with the supplier as well as the raw materials are nowadays managed on globalized scale. This has resulted in the evolution of manufacturing process from simple assembly line to complex systems. thus manufacturers nowadays manage multiple product lines in which the products are assembled from parts produced from different suppliers. Globalization has led to the formation of supply chains which are complex, large and business critical as compared to early periods. Manufacturers now requires management skills in order to manage logistics, that is to

Another problem that Zara’s information system is facing is that it is not sustainable in an ecological way. Indeed, the amount of shipping required by the actual centralized business model is already massive and it is expected to grow exponentially with the participation of the booming Asian economies. Such a model is not complying with the current ecological trends and reforms. For instance, the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI), a group of manufacturers and retailers working together to simplify and promote global commerce has lately been working on the elaboration of the 2016 Future supply chain design. Roland Dachs and Xavier Derycke, members of the GCI Future Supply Chain Work Team, announced in a report “In the future, the (supply chain)

However, logistics in China is in its infant period. Hence, there are some problems, for example, immediate economic benefits to the enterprise and ecological and social benefits faced, which results in negative environmental issues in China. It is worth noting that there is a need for the sustainable logistics system ,inhibiting cause harmful to the environment while forming a modern logistics system that can promote economic. There must be a combination of sustainable development and logistics applying the principles of sustainability in green logistics. Nevertheless, there are still many people who are not aware of green logistics and even suspect the necessity of establishment of green logistics.