Logistics Strategy And Approach Of Wispeco

Mike Sadle is the owner of Mike’s Wrecker Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Mike has been providing tow services in the Huntsville and the surrounding areas for the past 20 plus years. During that span, Mike has experienced firsthand the growth and evolution of the towing industry. The purpose of this project was to help Mike identify an area in his business where a significant contribution could be made to increase the overall success of the company. The goal was to present Mike’s Wrecker Service with a telematics solution that will not only bring added value to the company but also provide a significant competitive advantage.

Supply chains manage the movement of products from the acquisition of raw materials through production and finally distribution to the end user. A properly designed supply chain can create many opportunities to drive down cost and increase revenue opportunities. In order to create a supply chain that is sustainable and flexible it is necessary to identify and align company goals and initiatives with the manufacturing and distribution of products.

Logistics is the one important function in business today. No marketing, manufacturing or project execution can succeed without logistics support. 'Logistics ' is the management of the flow of resources, not only goods, between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics is one of the main functions within a company. The main targets of logistics can be divided into performance related and cost related. They are high due date reliability, short delivery times, low inventory level and high capacity utilization. But when decisions need to be made, there is always a trade off between these targets.

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.

Student Answer: Most every company has a mission and vision statement, but some companies do poor jobs conveying the true intention or depth of these statements. The mission statement should state its purpose and drive its collective efforts. The vision statement should state its desired future and drive its strategic plan (MacLeod, L. (2016). According to these standard of a mission and vision statement most companies would be considered lacking. I am currently employed at GEODIS logistics. Our mission statement states, “We help our clients

Part A: Describe how you would design a new logistics network consisting of only a single warehouse.

In my role as assistant-procurement logistics, I involved a part of the bidding committee, which I have to assess the bidding document, verify and participating in decision to choose vendors, in accordance with the requirements and specifications have been defined by the user by firm and fair practice. As my role as Senior Office Manager, I have to handling a problems on large seedlings procurement issue (more than $100,000) conducted by Implementing Partners and funded by us. some of which are not in accordance with specifications. I have to make a decision based on operational aspects and sustainability of the program. to solve this problem, I have collect informations from Program Staff User, and the implementing partner.

1. Wal-Mart has been able to achieve respectable leadership in the retail industry because of its focus on supply chain management. Discuss in detail the distribution and logistics system adopted by Wal-Mart.

W’UP Bottlery is one of the four bottling company which produces and distributes Coca- Cola and

Green Chilly has to analyze all the information together about potential suppliers. Generally, the business make 3 types of request to suppliers, request for information(RFI), request for proposal(RFP), request for quote(RFQ), (Beil and Ross, 2009) the suppliers must give the response according to these three requests. There are more complex factors take into consideration to select the suppliers, such as environmental, social, political, and customer satisfaction. It is important to identify the requirement and the criteria for the different types of the supplier in the business, the quality and the price is widely used in the supplier selection, according to the Green Chilly restaurant, the criteria can be divided into the food supplier and nonfood supplier, because of the restaurant request a high requirement for the fresh food, delivery is the most important factors to consider, the non-monetary term is applied to the food supplier. The equipment in the restaurant could use the monetary criteria to reduce the cost. Additionally the supplier 's operational capacity, technical capability and financial ability should be taken under consideration (Solish and Semanik 1999).

Dating back to 2013, the two automotive manufactures began discussing ideas of collaborating on an automatic transmission (Rosevear, 2016). The two brands began the collaboration in 2016 (Rosevear, 2016) on this project, as it would save millions over the combined sales between the two companies, rather than front the cost of developing individual parts. Most automotive brands source this part from a German company ZF Friedrichshafen (Rosevear, 2016), to save cost on producing a complex piece of mechanics for their automobiles. The logistics required to manufacture as well as supply this complex part of an automobile pose a massive cost in the industry. Furthermore, automobiles manufactured at multiple locations across the globe share this similar part, manufacturing it separately at each location poses many additional unwanted supply chain processes. By consolidating transmission production between Ford and General Motors, the logistics operation significantly downsizes for the two brands.

This report will analyze the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry in the United Arab Emirates during the last five years. The tools and techniques used for this analysis shall be PESTEL and PORTER’S 5 forces. Further this report shall discuss about the Industry type based on the competition existing in the market and its current phase in the Industry cycle.

the same time develop reliable technology that can be used to support efficient and reliable transportation mechanisms for their supply chains (Coyle et al. 2015).

The aim of this report to provide our client Lemnos Foods with the current overview of their logistics operations and determine whether the company is operating at the most optimum level in terms of cost and customer service.

Wispeco Aluminium is the biggest aluminium in Africa the organization set up in the mid 1920 the wire industries begins business in Johannesburg manufacturing nails, diamond mesh, fencing and gates situated in Alrode, Alberton close Johannesburg. Wispeco Aluminium has developed from strength to strength in the aluminium supplying industry. Either than the Alrode plant, the organization likewise has little branches arranged in Cape Town and Vereeniging. The organization started its operation as wires, steel windows and doors producing organization.