Logistics and the Out-bound Supply Chain (Manufacturing Engineering Series)
Language: English
Pages: 142
ISBN: 1857180321
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The control and organisation of the flow of goods in the supply chain is of vital importance to industry and commerce, including manufacturing industrial enterprises, where the timely and efficient delivery of their output at an economic cost is of great concern. This book considers the out-bound supply chain and the associated out-bound logistics ie the flow of goods from the point of production or manufacture to the point of consumption. In doing so, it has to cover a range of management topics and techniques, including measures of performance, order management and forecasting, stock management and management of the supply chain.
Written in clear and jargon-free language, this book, whilst intended primarily students of engineering and manufacturing, at 3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate level, would also be of interest to logistics and operations management students. Typical examination questions are included.
being transported from one place to another. All are a part of the stock-holding of a company. Some products such as wine and cheese need to be stored for a period of time before they are sold to 'mature'; others such as medical supplies may have to be held whilst they undergo sterilization or some other process that makes them fit for use. To summarize, stock can be said to be held for a number of purposes: • • to provide availability of product between replenishments; because supply is not
for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1 8571 8032 1 Typeset by Saxon Graphics Ltd, Derby Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn www. biddies. co. uk Contents Introduction 1 1. Objectives and Measures of Performance 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Performance of the distribution system 1.2.1 Total delivery time 1.2.2 Delivery reliability 1.2.3 Order completeness 1.3 Customer service level 1.4 Cost 1.5 Setting the strategy for distribution 1.6 The
customer orders and some which is undertaken in anticipation of asyet unreceived customer orders; it is therefore operating to a mixture of push and pull. Managing the supply chain 97 Figure 5.9 Janssens' flow chart The point within a supplier's operation to which a customer's order is uniquely identified is referred to as the order penetration point, or OPP (see Figure 5.10). The combination of push and pull is, in fact, found in most businesses and industries. Burger bars, for instance,
total stock-holding but may increase transport costs. International Distribution and e-Business 6.1 Introduction The final decades of the 20th century witnessed a significant expansion of global trade and the world became a smaller place. Through radio, television, telephones (mobile and satellite), the Internet, etc., people and companies can communicate with each other, virtually instantaneously, across the world. Similarly, developments in air transport, containerization and the construction
depleted North America of its supplies of raw materials, so that in the immediate aftermath product availablity became the competitive parameter; any company that could get a product to market could sell it. The second half of the 20th century witnessed the development of manufacturing technologies both in terms of production processes and systems of control, so that manufacturing today is highly automated, quality products roll out of factories and greater efficiencies mean lower prices. As we