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2. 17 Objectives Supply Chain and Logistics Management
1. Relate the supply chain management to the other variables of the marketing mix.
2. Explain the role of supply chain and logistics management in an effective marketing strategy.
3. Describe the objectives of logistics.
4. Identify and compare the major components of the logistics system.
5. Discuss some of the basic concepts involved in making transportation decisions.
6. Relate the major transportation alternatives to such factors as efficiency, speed, dependability, and cost.
7. Discuss the problem of suboptimization in logistics.
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3. 17
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Supply Chain
A network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these finished products to customers.
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4. 17 Supply Chain and Logistics Management A Simple Supply Chain
Figure 17.1
A Simple Supply Chain
downstream
upstream
Legend
Material flow/ Raw materials Manufacturing Distribution Retailers/
transportation supplier plant centre customers
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5. Supply Chain Management (SCM)17
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Supply Chain Management (SCM)
The systematic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole.
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6. 17
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Logistics
That part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers’ requirements.
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7. 17 Logistics Supply Chain and Logistics Management Customer service
What level of customer service should be provided?
Transportation.
How will the products be shipped?
Materials handling and protective packaging.
How do we develop efficient methods of handling products in the factory, warehouse, and transport terminals?
Order Processing
How should orders be handled?
Inventory control
How much inventory should be maintained at each location?
Warehousing
Where will the products be located?
How many warehouses should be used?
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8. 17
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Total-Cost Approach
Holds that relevant factors in physically moving and storing products should be considered as a whole and not individually.
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9. 17
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Suboptimization
A condition in which the manager of each physical distribution function attempts to minimize costs, but due to the impact of one physical distribution task on the others, the results are less than optimal.
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10. 17
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Cost Tradeoffs
Approach that assumes that some functional areas of the firm will experience cost increases while others will have cost decreases.
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11. 17
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Logistics Concept
The integration of the total-cost approach, the avoidance of suboptimization, and the use of cost tradeoffs.
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12. Logistics Management: The Systems Concept and the Total-Cost Approach17
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Figure 17.2
Logistics Management: The Systems Concept and the Total-Cost Approach
Basic Components of a Logistics System
Transportation
Materials Handling
Systems Concept
Total-Cost Approach
Management views
Logistics as a system of
Interrelated components
Order processing
Management attempts
to minimize the cost
of using the components
taken as a whole
Inventory control
Warehousing
Packaging
Source: From Marketing Channels; A Management View, 6th ed., by Bert Rosenbloom, p 404. Copyright © Reprinted with permission of South-Western, a division of Thomson Learning: Fax
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13. Third-Party Logistics Provider17
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Third-Party Logistics Provider
Specialist firm that performs virtually all of the logistical tasks that manufacturers or other channel members would normally perform themselves.
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14. 17 Classes of carriers Common Contract Private
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Classes of carriers
Common
Contract
Private
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15. 17
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Common Carrier
Transportation carrier that provides service to the general public, and is subjected to regulatory authority including fee setting.
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16. 17
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Contract Carrier
Transportation carrier that serves only customers it has contracts with. Contracts include rates to be charged.
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17. 17
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Private Carrier
Transportation carrier that provides transportation services for a particular firm and may not solicit other transportation business.
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18. Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)17
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Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
A model that emphasizes a cost tradeoff between inventory holding costs and order costs.
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19. 17 The EOQ Model Supply Chain and Logistics Management Figure 17.3
Total Cost
Inventory Holding Cost per Unit
Costs
Order Cost per Unit
Quantity of Units
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20. 17
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Just in Time (JIT)
An approach to minimizing inventory costs through identify minimal inventory levels and arranging with suppliers to replenish stocks just in time to be used in production.
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21. Protective Packaging and Materials Handling17
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Protective Packaging and Materials Handling
Unitization
Combining as many packages as possible into one load.
Containerization
Combining several unitized loads.
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22. Distribution Warehouse17
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Distribution Warehouse
Designed to assemble and then redistribute products.
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23. 17
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Break-Bulk Warehouse
Receives consolidated shipments from a central distribution centre, and then distributes them in smaller shipments to individual customers in more limited areas.
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24. 17
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Storage Warehouse
Stores products for moderate to long periods of time in an attempt to balance supply and demand for products and purchasers.
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25. 17
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Freight Forwarder
Wholesaling intermediary that specializes in international logistics.
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