Smartville: An Integrated Supply Chain Case Study (1)
Building the Smart Car The Micro Compact Car (MCC) supply chain demonstrates a strongly developed supplier/manufacturer relationship. The Smartville plant...
Competitive Advantage Through Logistics: An Electronics Case Study in 100 Words
In electronics, Porter’s “Five Forces” are powerful. Logistics represents a means by which economies can be achieved through specific efficiency...
Management Information: Influence and Impact
The first section of this article discusses how management information can influence the direction of a business. The section that...
Logistics and KPIs: A Despatch Case
This article concentrates on despatch, a logistical operation that directly affects commercial performance. A description of the despatch process is...
Analysing Marketing Logistics
Analysis of the Marketability of the Current Logistics Chain The following diagram is an approximate illustration of a consumer electronics...
Identifying and Solving Business Problems
The SWOT is a useful – if sometimes not fully understood – tool for identifying a company’s current and relative...
Global Logistics and Supply Management: Features of a Global Curriculum
The following outlines the prospective content of an undergraduate business studies unit designed to reflect and address the concepts and...
International Business and Money Laundering
Money laundering can be simply defined as “the act of concealing the source of illegally gotten money”. In the United...
Insurance: Possibilities and Limitations
Trade credit is often extended by carriers (for example: operators such as Hamburg Sud, where I worked for a spell)...