Logistics - Projects, Thesis, Dissertation, Project Reports

The business environment has changed tremendously in the last two decades. Corporations have been forced to realign their global strategies and in order to cut costs, they started to transfer activities which were previously performed in-house to the market (e.g. IT, manufacturing or logistics) focusing instead on their core competencies. Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM BACKGROUND 1.1.1 Moving towards a new organizational paradigm 1.2 RESEARCH SUBJECT CHOICE 1.2.1 Research Question 1.2.2 Research Purpose 1.3 DISPOSITION 2 THEORETICAL METHOD 2.1 PRECONCEPTIONS 2.2 . Owing to standardized structure and sizes, containers offer obvious advantages for the rationalization of shipment, of security, of handling facilities and procedures and of multi-modal transportation. Since the 1960s, containerization of cargo transportation has been the norm in global logistics services. Containers are now playing a key role in the globalization of business. The objective of our study is emphasizing on the analytical thinking and quantitative analysis to the container logistics under uncertain environment. Our primal objective is to provide . Boliden is one of the leading mining and smelter companies in the world. Boliden have mines in Sweden and Ireland and smelters in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Their main products are copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. To make it easier to standardize the procurement process and introduce new lead-buyers, Boliden has decided to create a procurement manual. The primary purpose of the Manual is to provide an overview of Bolidens procurement operations, procurement processes and procurement information systems. As such, . The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the role of logistics in the strategy of the firm. Leading to this purpose are empirical observations of firms that manage to grow under sustained profitability, by the means of logistics.The clothing retailers H&M and Inditex manage to pursue strategies of growth under sustained profitability. Both H&M and Inditex acknowledge that logistics is used in achieving these strategic goals. The competitive environments are similar for the two retailers. Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 . Packaging has a major impact on the activities performed in a logistical value chain. Packaging can improve or decrease the efficiency of the outbound logistics process. It is therefore important to consider the activities and the value that they add to the overall process. ROL International is a Swedish store interior manufacturer that design, produce and distribute their products on a global basis. One of their basic products is the shelf concept. ROL wants to improve their efficiency and consider . The management of the purchasing department of non-automotive products believe that their internal customers might not have full understanding of what the purchasing department does. This is a problem because the internal customers might not use the contracts negotiated by the purchasing department or they might not involve the purchasing department when making purchases. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if and how the internal customers’ perception deviates from the purchasing department’s perception regarding the task of the purchasing . As the world’s largest automation supplier, ABB has built a value chain geared to the singular goal of achieving results for the customer. Every day ABB ships more than 1,000,000 automation products. Hence, logistics plays an important part for ABB to gain a substantial competitive edge in the global market place. The company must be able to deliver their products at shortest time possible to meet customer demands. If ABB wants to increase their market share and enhance its performance . This report is the result of the course IET101, master thesis in Industrial Management and Engineering. During autumn and winter 2005 the author of this thesis has conducted a research at Iggesund Paperboard. Iggesund Paperboard is one of five business areas within the Holmen Group. Iggesund Paperboard produces and sells solid bleached board and folding box board. The company has customers spread across a large geographical area and produces a great amount of paperboard, therefore an extensive distribution system is needed. . This master’s thesis was carried out at Volvo Trucks in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Trucks is one of the world’s leading manufactures of heavy trucks and they have always seen the value in having effective material flows in order to succeed in the highly competitive automotive market. All trucks are assembled based on the customer’s needs. This makes each truck unique, developed to meet the individual need of the customer. This is a competitive advantage for Volvo Trucks, but it also requires . This project provides recommendations for how the engine manufacturer, Perkins Engines, can improve their final assembly and paint process to meet the future demands. The recommendations is based upon analysis of the present conditions and provide the operational capabilities, efficiencies, constraints and limitations. Consideration is taken to the analysis, economy, quality and logistics and also to the rest of the company. All recommendations are developed according to Lean production and 6 sigma methods and philosophy. Automation, waste reduction and potential .