GMS 804 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Third-Party Logistics, Customer Satisfaction, A.D. Vision
10 Apr 2017
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If quantities delivered insufficient, sales and marketing will suffer: packaging, logistics makes packaging decisions for goods as they are being transported. It : protects items from damage, has significant impact on the ability to move and handle the material. In the example of m&ms, if proper packaging is not used, the candy can become crushed, broken, or damaged: finance, logistics is responsible for large capital expenditures such as, transportation, warehousing. It is the mode of choice for moving large bulk items, such as oil or coal: can travel over long distance, adv: very affordable, can reach economies of scale, cost of. It is an extremely slow mode of shipment: restricted to water access, air. In contrast to water transportation, air is the fastest mode of transportation. Products are then moved across the dock and loaded onto trucks that are dedicated for a particular destination. This method is very effective for replenishing fast moving inventory items at the store level.
