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Fachkraft fuer Lagerlogistik: Grundlagen-Begriffe (Lexikon) + Woerterbuch (deutsch-englisch/ en-de) + Abkuerzungen

Leseprobe zum Woerterbuch
ein mangelhafter Zustand der Ware
a defective condition of the goods

Ersatzteillager {Logistik}
spare parts warehouse

Transportlogistik {Transport}
transport logistics

Warensendung {Logistik}
consignment

Warenversand mit der Post
dispatch of goods

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
1. Lexikon und Woerterbuch fuer Lagerlogistik-Fachkraft
1.1 Logistik-Lexikon
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ABC-Analyse {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Abholtransport der Ware {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Abladestelle der Ware {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Abnehmer {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Abnutzung (wear and tear) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Abrollcontainer-Transportsystem (ACTS) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Absatz bzw. Artikel-Absatz {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Absatzplan (distribution plan) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Absenkbarer Palettenplatz (lowerable pallet slot) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Activity Based Costing (ABC) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ACTS (Abrollcontainer-Transportsystem) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Advanced Tracking and Tracing (ATT) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
airway bill (Luftfrachtbrief) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
AKL (Automatisches Kleinteilelager) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Aktenförderanlage (document conveyor) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Akustische Kommissionierung (pick by voice) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ALF (Autonomes Lagerfahrzeug) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Ameise {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Anbruch {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Andockstelle {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Anfahrdichte (approach frequency) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Anpassrampe (dock leveler) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Anschlagmittel (slinging means) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
APS {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Arbeitsablaufplan {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragszeit (Arbeitsablaufplanung) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Arbeitsvorbereitung {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Arten der Güter {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Article-based Order-picking {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Artikel {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Assemble-to-Order (Zusammenbau bei Auftrag) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ATA (Datenverarbeitung) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ATD {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ATLAS (Automatisiertes Tarif- und Lokales Zoll-Abwicklungs-System) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
ATT (Advanced Tracking and Tracing) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Aufgaben der Logistik {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Aufgaben vom Wareneingang {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftrag/ Kundenauftrag {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftraggeber {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsart {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftrags-Batch {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsfertigung {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsmanagement {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsorientierte Kommissionierung {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsparallele Kommissionierung {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragsposition {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragszeile {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Auftragszeit (Arbeitsablaufplanung) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Ausfuhr {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Ausschleusstation {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Ausschuss (fehlerhafte Teile) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Automatische Identifikation {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Automatische Rampe {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Automatisches Behälterlager {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Automatisches Kleinteilelager (AKL) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Automatisiertes Tarif- und Lokales Zoll-Abwicklungs-System (ATLAS) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Autonomes Lagerfahrzeug (ALF) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
available stocks (Verfügbarer Bestand) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
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Bahnfrachtbrief (railway bill, bill of loading) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Barcode {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Barcode-Lesegerät {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Batch-Kommissionierung (Multi-Order-Picking) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Baukastenstückliste {LEXIKON-Logistik}
BDE (Betriebsdatenerfassung) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Bedarfsermittlung {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Bedarfsplan (Zusammensetzung) {LEXIKON-Logistik}
Bedarfsplanung (requirements planning) {LEXIKON-Logistik}

The Covid-19 pandemic has been (and still is) causing detriments on the world economy, all production sectors and individual economies. Firmly interconnected transnational economies have been thrown off balance by this global health crisis through the spread of virus and thrown into an economic crisis. Due to this pandemic crisis paralyzing national economies, countries suddenly had to diverge from their economic targets and objectives of sustainable development. Countries that have imposed quarantines and lockdowns based on the recommendation of the World Health Organization, not only the consumption levels have declined, but also the consumption habits have changed in general. This decline in consumption and uncertainty in turn has brought production sector to a halt, causing either a restrain in their production activities or reduction in their production capacities. Along with these developments in the field of economy, the foreign trade activities of countries have been directly affected. The decline in demand as well as the reduced levels of production and consumption due to pandemic-related conditions, certain variations have been observed in the imports and exports of countries. This study analyzes the impact of Covid-19 on international trade by delving into the quantitative data on imports and exports in the period of 2018-2021.

Law and enforcement of the Land Public Transport Act 2010 (APAD) is a law that has been set by the Malaysian government to ensure the safety of road users. The offense of overloading depends on the behaviour of the transport company operator and the behaviour of the enforcement role among the road transport officers. However, there is no empirical evidence that shows the position and perception of the impact of legislation and enforcement of the Land Public Transport Act 2010 (APAD) on the offense to be overloading. Therefore, this study aims to study the effectiveness of the Land Public Transport Act 2010 on overloading cases. This study focuses on the State of Perak, especially the Kuala Kangsar Enforcement Station, which is a weighing station that determines the weight of a commercial vehicle in determining whether it commits overload or not. Therefore, this study focuses on the understanding and delivery of standard operating procedures, role of enforcement, and tonto. The results showed that the effectiveness of the Land Public Transport Act 2010 (LPTA) against overloading this case is related to the understanding and delivery of standard operating procedures for enforcement and enforcement role. However, tonto was found to be unrelated and influenced the effectiveness of the Land Public Transport Act (2010) on overloaded cases. This shows that, although the Land Public Transport Act 2010 is an instrument that influences the enforcement of overloading cases, if a large part of the enforcement personnel has a positive perception and understanding of the law then the performance or effectiveness of this act will definitely increase.

The objective of this publication is to translate the activities included in road  transport task into the language of tasks and to ascribe appropriate costs and  economic effectiveness indicators to them. Such a representation is new in literature and serves as the base for any further analysis of costs carried in an international  road cargo transport company. The suggested indicators refer to both direct and  indirect costs which are carried. They also allow to evaluate the work of people involved in the organization and realisation of transport tasks. Additionally, the  suggested cumulative indicators allow for the evaluation of transport tasks from the perspective of operational management of the company. The usage of the IT systems proved to be extremely helpful in this respect as they generate all the required information on the spot.

In the emerging world of technology, the transportation system is also progressing towards great level of achievements, one of such achievement is the new, updated and fastest transportation system named Virgin Hyperloop One, such technology is known for its very high-speed transportation technology. We can easily analyse it capability by knowing the fact that, It is capable of achieving the speed which is 4 times the speed of bullet train and double the speed of Boeing 747 plane. Such a modern system of transportation will start initialling to take its original structure in the year 2021. This modern technological-driven innovative system will help the people 'to stay anywhere', 'to work from anywhere', and 'to go to anywhere' from their native place with very much ease in the upcoming future. For such reason, the company set a goal to gets into a contract with Bangalore airport as well as the Punjab transportation department for actualization the scheme in India. Hyperloop is a brand-new grounded transport technology in development and implementation, which encourages various new corporation to come into existence, some of which are the already established techno-giants, it would see passengers move at over 1200 kilometres each hour in a very fast floating pod. Hyperloop will be cheaper and faster than train or automobile travel, and will produce almost no any polluting substances in the environment. Hyperloop would possibly therefore be accustomed take the pressure off gridlocked roads, making travel between cities easier, and probably unlocking major economic benefits for India. We can easily analyse the captive abilities of this new transportation system with the fact that it can complete the 3 hours of journey in just 35 minutes of time. And it’s not any miracle, it’s actually a reality. Virgin Hyperloop One is capable of transporting more than 200 million passengers every year, when it will start functioning in India. Such innovative and technology-driven advanced transportation system will bring various type of opportunities for the country India in the upcoming future, as such project will bring a very large amount of infrastructure-based investments from several corporates, that will directly or indirectly generate the employment opportunities for over 1.8 million people and it will also generate a huge amount of economic profit for India, which can be estimated over US $35 Billion.

Energy efficiency is one of the most cost effective ways to enhance security of energy supply, and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The EU Commission has proposed that all Member States establish a national energy saving obligation scheme appropriate for their circumstances. Companies in Serbia will have to adopt to the upcoming situation in order to remain competitive. Only few business areas offer companies such huge scope for rationalization and savings as the materials handling and logistics sector. "Intralogistics" describes the organization, realization and optimization of internal material flow and logistic technologies as well as the goods transhipment in industry, trade and in public institutions by means of technical components, partial and full systems and services. The issues of ecology, sustainability and social responsibility are becoming increasingly important.

This is an earlier and substantially lengthier version of the European Commission’s Green Paper on Ports and Maritime Infrastructure, which I had prepared as a member of Commissioner Neil Kinnock’s wise men group.

The Green Paper has often been described as the most influential port policy document ever produced by the EC. The current version does not in any way commit the European Commission and interested readers are advised to refer to the final version of the Green Paper as published by the EC.

The present work requires careful and persistent reading so that the reader bypasses the necessary bureaucratic 'superficiality' and identifies my core arguments which, I am happy to say, have not changed to the slightest in the 15 years since its publication. Many of these arguments had been described as ‘politically dangerous’ and, consequently, did not find their way into the Green Paper. I quote one of them in p.7 (emphasis added):

…The Commission’s White Paper on the future development of the common transport policy  laid down a new vision for transport policy, following the principle of sustainable mobility; i.e. a strategy that acknowledges the need for a more balanced transport system that would fulfil its economic and social role while, at the same time, containing its effects on the environment. The overall objective of such an approach, as clearly described by the European Parliament , is to …promote sustainable, efficient transport systems which meet the economic, social, environmental and safety needs of European citizens; help reduce regional disparities; and enable European business to compete effectively in world markets… Again, the ‘challenge’ is apparent: a more balanced  pan-European transport system with the above objectives is in stark contrast with hub-porting; concentration of traffic to selected ports; longer distances; and consequent transport externalities. It is thus increasingly felt that the European Commission needs to depart from its all-pleasing ‘statements’ and make hard-nosed decisions in order to effectuate its cohesion and regional development objectives which are the overarching ones…(unquote).

A closing note of caution on my use of the word 'superficiality': With remarkable consistency, European institutions involved in the maritime sector have been focusing all along on issues such as safety and environmental protection; issues which, among others, have allowed the proliferation of various monopolies in the port sector. I believe this has not happened accidentally. I believe instead that the focus on the ‘secondary’ has obscured and diverted attention from the ‘primary’, which comprises the ‘politically sensitive’ issues of port pricing; infrastructure financing; state aids; transparency of port accounts; and, finally, a European ‘port governance’ model.

Triple Bottom Line (3 BL) Sustainability has been expressed as a tool in the hands of policy makers to achieve competitive advantage. Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC) conceptualizes the design, control, and operation of the supply chain systems to recover the value from the product even after their useful life through the processes of reuse and recycle. Efficient management of CLSC operations in metal recycling industry will enhance 3BL sustainability. The present study investigates and shortlists critical sustainability factors in metal recycling CLSC operations. The study applies Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to identify the most important factors and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) techniques to check the reliability and validity of these factors through statistical analysis. The study identifies five most important factors to achieve sustainability in metal recycling CLSC. Although the article is focused on the Indian metal recycling industry but factors can be relevant for researchers in other developing countries, where similar economic, social and environmental conditions exist.

In the digital era, Information Technology (IT) has become a major and widespread factor in various sectors. IT becomes a driver of utilization in all aspects, one of which is in the Port. Tanjung Priok Port plays a major role in supporting the mobility of goods and people and the economy in Indonesia. In 2018 Indonesia's Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is ranked 46 with a score of 3.15. LPI score is obtained from several components. According to the level of truck movement density at the port, Indonesian Government has made Delivery Orders (DO) online to maximize efforts to reduce density, which is also one of the Smart Port components. The advantage of Smart Port makes cargo owners/consignee, shipping line, and freight forwarder apply for DO documents via online. Therefore, the manual processing of DO reaches 300,000 in 2 days, 81% saving time and 85% saving queue after applying online DO. This system requires trust and transparency of each stakeholder so that it helps smoot...

Logistics costs control has always been considered a key issue for business development. In order to decrease transportation costs, companies are pushed to negotiate lower logistic service prices with Third-Party Logistics Service Providers (3PL) which, in turn, should be able to optimize their processes and reduce their costs in order to preserve the adequate profitability and allow their industrial customers to gain competitive advantage. In this paper a method to reduce industrial costs and negative externalities associated with fleet management on an Hub & Spoke transportation network is presented. We state that the Time Dependent VRP with Pick-up and Deliveries and Time Windows model may be the most suitable for goods distribution problem inside large cities. A dynamic version capable to consider road traffic along with variable congestion effects during the day has been created. Hence, we proposed a quick and flexible heuristic that has been validated with the real data of a subsidiary of a 3PL leader in the express transportation sector. The heuristic has demonstrated to be able to reduce travel time, travelled distance and, at the same time, significantly increase the service level, on top of the relative benefit for the community coming from a substantial reduction of air pollution, noise pollution, congestion and incidentally.

Since its appearance in 2003, the what has come to be known as “The Erasmus Report” has been making headlines throughout the world. This, mainly due to its finding that “liner shipping conferences have a stabilizing effect on freight rates and are thus a low cost ‘necessary evil’ for trade promotion and for the survival from destructive competition of this most crucial of industries”.

Unfortunately, this result was not to the liking of DG COMP who, as it became clear, had already made its decision to do away with conferences, expecting the Erasmus Report to just rubber stamp its decision. Ten years later (2012) the Report continues to prove how right it was. European shippers now vehemently complain about rate volatility and this is just music to my ears.

Michael E Porter developed a value chain model for manufacturing sector with five primary activities and four supporting activities. The value chain model developed by Porter is extended to a steel manufacturing sector due to expansions of steel plants has become a continual process for their growth and survival. In this paper a value chain model for steel manufacturing sector is developed considering five primary activities and six support activities.

Since 2013, Brazil is the largest global exporter of soybeans, with volumes growing consistently over the years. The export increases placed pressure on the country’s port logistics, and the Northern Arc, by which the ports located in the north of the country are collectively known, presents itself as a viable and competitive solution for soybean producers in part of Mato Grosso, the largest grain producing region. The vigorous growth of the exports using the Northern Arc’s deep-sea river ports, which grew from 1.9 million tons in 2010, to 11.4 million tons in 2019, requires inland waterway transportation (IWT) to reach them. There are few grain transport operators from the Transhipment Facilities (TF), where the grain changes it’s transport mode from road transportation to IWT, in order to reach the deep-sea river ports that export soybeans. The region of Miritituba / PA concentrates the largest amount of TF and ships the largest volumes of soybeans to these ports, responsible for 59.6% of all grains exported through these ports in 2019. The costs of IWT are not publicly disclosed, and the models available to determine the costs do not consider the peculiarities and characteristics of the Amazon Region. This paper aims to fill a gap regarding specific models to determine the costs of transporting soybeans in barges on the IWT of the Amazon Region, which were not found in research. This is a contemporary case study with quantitative data with application in the area of knowledge in Operational Research (OR) to develop a mathematical model for the simulation of discrete event systems, reflecting a cost analysis. The objectives are to develop a model adapted to the characteristics of IWT logistics in the Northern Arc, identify the main factors critical to success that impact on the costs of river logistics, and study the combinations and how the variables relate to the respective freight costs according to the size of barge tows and destination. Additionally, it allows the IWT system users to better understand the cost composition and to negotiate the best prices, increasing the competitiveness of Brazilian soybean exports.

Over the last 50 years, international trade of goods has grown significantly in the USA, and as a result, US ports have become bottlenecks in the freight supply chain and logistics. A particular issue that most US ports are contending with is gate congestion (i.e., queuing of trucks outside the container terminal gate). This research provides planners and engineers of container terminals a set of methodologies to design an optimal gate layout to reduce gate congestion. The use of the methodologies to determine the optimal number of service gates is illustrated considering various truck arrival rates, gate service rates, and waiting time thresholds.

À partir de l’évolution de la configuration réticulaire des voies de communication terrestres transfrontalières, cette thèse propose une analyse historique du processus d’intégration régionale entre le Cameroun et les pays limitrophes d’Afrique Centrale entre 1920 et 2016. Il s’agit de répondre à la préoccupation de savoir comment est-ce que, du point de vue du Cameroun, la construction desdites voies a influencé son rapport à ses voisins durant la période indiquée. Les méthodes de recherche et d’analyse historique sont couplées à la pluridisciplinarité. La démarche diachronique articule les mutations en deux temps.
Le temps colonial va de 1920 à 1960. Il est marqué, durant l’entre-deux-guerres, par des investissements importants en infrastructures de transports terrestres de la part de l’administration coloniale française pour projeter l’économie du Cameroun vers les colonies d’Afrique Centrale et leur faire profiter de sa position stratégique. Un processus d’intégration de fait s’esquisse entre le Cameroun et l’AEF. Toutefois, dès les années 1930 l’administration coloniale pense avoir établi la quantité de liaisons interterritoriales nécessaire pour susciter des interactions économiques entre le Cameroun et l’AEF. De 1940 à 1960 l’on constate une baisse progressive de l’intensité des travaux. En effet, le contexte politique heurte les enjeux économiques malgré la planification après 1945. La symétrie entre constructions des routes transfrontalières et désir d’exploitation économique harmonisée des territoires du Cameroun et de l’AEF qui cède à la construction d’un espace politique fragmentée au voisinage de 1960.
C’est dans ce contexte que le Cameroun et ses voisins de l’ex-AEF (Gabon, Congo, République Centrafricaine et Tchad) accèdent à l’indépendance. Considérablement, l’intégration est à reconstruire entre ces territoires qui décident de former une union douanière en 1964. Le Cameroun et ses voisins de l’UDÉAC l’envisagent tout en campant sur l’héritage matériel et immatériel (politique) colonial. Il est en résulte une stagnation du réseau routier transfrontalier et une dynamique d’intégration atténuée durant les trente-cinq ans de l’union. L’avènement de la CÉMAC en 1994 s’accompagne d’une cascade de projets d’infrastructures. Le Cameroun apparaît comme le point de départ ou d’aboutissement de plusieurs d’entre eux dans le sillage des travaux qui s’en suivent. Il en découle une redynamisation du processus d’intégration régionale avec les pays de la sous-région. Cependant, il est désormais sous l’influence de la mondialisation et du capital néolibéral.

In India, Courier Industry has evolved itself over the years. Starting from the mid-1980’s to now in the 21st century – the customer now has more faith on a Courier Company than on India Post. A Courier Company has a critical role to play in the Supply Chain Management of any organization which is involved in distribution of products, raw material, semi-finished, finished goods across the globe or within India. This paper is an attempt to share the challenge and change which is being experienced in the Courier Industry especially in last 5-10 years

In recent years, last-mile delivery has become an increasingly important area in the global supply chain. Practically, there has been an increasing worldwide interest in developing the last-mile delivery robots/vehicles to increase the efficiency of the whole supply chain. Theoretically, several researchers have suggested that using autonomous robots brings more efficiency for delivery. However, almost no current studies consider a specific last-mile delivery activitytransport from supermarkets after loading to pickup stations before unloading. The goal of this study is to investigate whether and how autonomous vehicles/robots can address the issue of cost and time efficiency. Specifically, this research aims at identifying the time and cost structures of using autonomous vehicles for the delivery along the chosen route-a single way from the Sainsbury's supermarket to the Amazon pickup station at Coventry. Furthermore, the research aims to find whether using autonomous vehicles is more efficient in time and/or cost than using vans with drivers for this route.

Abstract:
With the wide spread digital connectivity and impetus on ease of doing business, last mile logistics has undergone substantial improvements in areas like e-tailing, second hand goods market, relocation of houses and offices, secondary logistics of manufacturing, hyper logistics and courier services. Intra-city logistics in cities is dominated by small size vehicles and the ownership of the vehicles is largely unorganized. Digital connectivity in cities is very high. Taking advantage of the opportunities presented by gap in last mile logistics and good accessibility of funds to start and scale up the operations many startups have come into business by new enterpreurs as well as established players. A convenient sample of 13 startups which were accessed from news paper reports and their websites was chosen for study covering 24 months starting from Nov 13. Information was collated to study the current business scenario in “on-demand logistics platforms”, key aspects of service delivery, Intra city movement business organization-customers type and expectations and Startup boom-founders, funding and type of entrepreneurship. It was observed that majority of the first time enterpreurs are from premier institutes of India. Valuation of startups is good from the point of view of investors. The sign of consolidation of business was also seen by way of mergers. Customers as well as truckers are happier due to better tracking, more round trips, reduced costs and reduced waiting time

It was only a matter of time before trucking companies started actively recruiting women. Women in trucking are like the new trend but with good reason. I have heard a trainer say more than once that they rather train a woman than a man. Some even brag about women's driving skills by the time they are done with training.
Generally women drive less aggressive and more cautiously than men, so that should also mean they are less likely to be involved in accidents. 
Perhaps this occurs because men resist the trainer's instruction being more focused on 'getting it himself' while the woman is fully attentive and absorbs each step as it’s given. Who knows, that's my theory anyway.
As industries go, oil and gas extraction, ship and boat building and crop production are pretty macho. But not as much as trucking, which has a lower percentage of women in the workforce, according to the federal government.
Women made up 46.8 percent of all laborers 16 years or older last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But of the more than 2 million workers in the trucking transportation field, just 11.4 percent were female on par with sectors such as iron, steel and cement manufacturing and mineral mining.
Women driving heavy trucks in Tanzania is by no means unprecedented, nor is it new. Yet in a society where women make up about 51% of the population and an industry that's been crying "driver shortage, driver shortage" for years, only about one out of every 15 over-the-road truck drivers is a woman.
Part of this increase comes from a change in our culture that can make it easier for women to apply for trucking jobs. It is no longer a cultural norm for a woman to stay at home and take care of the family. Single women, entrepreneurs interested in owner-operator roles, and women with older children are in the perfect position to start a career as a trucker.
Furthermore, there are trucking jobs that don’t require drivers to be gone away for weeks at a time. Trucking jobs for women can include regional dry van routes, as well as port and rail driving jobs. These types of trucking jobs allow drivers to be home every few days, which is well suited for women who have family and social commitments.
Many incidents have taken place towards women in this industry in the form of sexual harassment or abuse. Many companies will allow men and women to train together by sharing a truck and/or living out of a truck for weeks or months at a time.
Shortage of women truck drivers in trucking industry point out the need to curb the factors hindering women to drive trucks.

IKEA implemented multiple Supply Chain Management "SCM" strategies that enabled to offer IKEA's customers with stylish and high-quality products at low-prices, in line with its clear vision " to create a better everyday life for the many people" and the company is distinctive via strict commitment to its catalog of products that will be stocked for one year at a guaranteed price . IKEA realized the fact that to become competitive and stand in a strategic position in the market both locally and globally, it is essential to improve the SCM to be more efficient and effective than the market rivals and in the meantime, achieve competitiveness and maximize profits.
This paper demonstrates IKEA's supply chain management, its components and the key relationships across the entire supply chain. The report will analyze the current supply chain strategies and practices adopted by IKEA and contributed to its success to achieve competitive advantages over the market rivals.  In the meantime, the report explains alternative strategies and practices that can be implemented within IKEA's supply chain that enable its growth and efficiency and recommend a set of strategies to elevate Performance.

профессор, заведующий кафедрой транспортных систем (Харьковский национальный автомобильно-дорожный университет) Г.И. Нечаев, д.т.н., профессор, заведующий кафедрой транспортных технологий (Восточноукраинский национальный университет им. В. Даля) А.Н. Котенко, д.т.н., профессор, профессор кафедры управления грузовой и коммерческой работой (Украинская государственная академия железнодорожного транспорта) Н 34 Наумов В.С. Основы повышения эффективности экспедиционного обслуживания на автомобильном транспорте: Монография-Харьков: ХНАДУ, 2010.-144 с.

U ovom seminarskom radu biti će opisana logistika u gradovima koja se u današnje vrijeme sve više koristi kao tema znanstvenih istraživanja. Koristeći većinom članke pronađene na internetu i jedne knjige pokušati će se dati karakteristike logistike u gradovima. U prvom dijelu rada će se opisati, odnosno dati kratak uvod u logistiku koja se javlja u urbanim naseljima. Kako bi shvatili što je zapravo gradska logistika dati će se definicija tog pojma i objasniti će generatori, tj. pokretači takve logistike i koja prijevozna sredstva se javljaju u takvoj logistiki. Drugi dio ovog seminarskog rada će se bazirati na problemima s kojima se susreće gradska logistika i ti problemi će se pobrojati kao i moguća rješenja za nabrojane probleme. Pred kraj slijede metode distribucije robe i njihov pojedinačan opis, dok na samom kraju je dan zaključak koji će rezimirati sve navedeno zajedno sa mojim vlastitim razmišljanjem o toj temi.

Depot is a part of the logistics and supply chain industry, being the place for storage of goods for distribution. 

The industry suffered a temporary service interruption when hauliers and truck drivers protested over depot charges, which caused delay in tranporting. This problem revolves around two important areas of the efficiency of logistics industry; the costs and time. The increase of charges was uncontrollable as there is no goverment body regulating the depots services. There were complaints about the poor depot performance that caused hauliers to wait, which led to delays in delivery, which minimized their trips per day.  It is also reported that the depot gate charges were imposed so that depots operators could invest in new equipment to improve services.  However, the customers of the depots haven’t seen any positive changes or improved services which had severely impacted their services. 

This paper will identify the current status of depots services at Port Klang and to view the best concept of a cluster of industry.

La necessità di contrastare con maggior vigore il processo di cambiamento climatico è condivisa, sia dai governi, sia dall’opinione pubblica. Il mondo dei trasporti è chiamato a fare la sua parte e per questo il trasporto intermodale nelle sue forme più diffuse (ferro-gomma e mare-gomma) rappresenta una valida opportunità per raggiungere l’obiettivo di contenere il più possibile – fino a farle sparire – le emissioni nocive generate dal trasporto. Ma non può essere un impegno delle sole imprese di trasporto. Si rende necessaria una netta inversione di tendenza che al momento non sembra essere adeguatamente supportata dalle Istituzioni, dalle imprese di produzione e dall'opinione pubblica.

Waste management in Kenya's urban centers is becoming a momentous task considering the country's desire for a middle income industrial economy. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is concerned with the growing rate of waste generation that does not match the rate of collection. Among the industrial sectors that are poised to play a significant role in realization of the middle income industrial status is the textile sector. However, this is a sector that contributes to high volumes of waste generation in Kenya. Yet, it is envisaged that adoption of waste-sensitive procurement could be the panacea to waste management in the sector. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate the effect of procurement performance practices on waste management in textile firms in Nairobi City County. This study was grounded on the positivist research paradigm in adopting the ex-post facto research design, to interrogate the direct effects of the three procurement practices on waste management. Cochran's sample size formula was used to decide on a sample size of 142 employees. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to draw the required sample of employees from the respective textile firms. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire comprising of four sections in line with the four constructs under study. Multiple regressions analyses were run to test the postulations made. The study confirmed that textile firms under investigation were not emphasizing more on waste prevention and minimization when procuring materials. This was deemed to be serious considering that supplier-prequalification, invitation to tender, and contract structure were all found to be significant and positive predictors of waste management in the textile firm's context. The conclusions made from the study findings were that; textile firms in Nairobi City County were facing the challenge of waste management due to their laxity in emphasizing waste-sensitive procurement practices. The firms however stand to gain by leveraging upon supplier pre-qualification, invitation of bids, and contract structure that are centric to waste generation. The findings of this study contribute to the theory and practice of waste management by showing that, waste is best managed at the procurement stage. This therefore implies that textile and waste management stakeholders have the onus of coming up with waste management parameters which, supplier pre-qualification, invitation to tender, and contract structure processes should aim at. Future studies should take into account other procurement practices that can be engaged to prevent and minimize waste. Moreover, there may be need to expand the geographical scope of the firms in order to boost external validity KEYWORDS Waste management, supplier pre-qualification, invitation to tender, contract structure, procurement performance International

From cross comparison viewpoint, this study has been designed with the objectives of: first, to explore the key influential aspects of CRM and second, to identify and critically discuss the current trends of CRM adoption. Tesco and Sainsbury's are two major retailers in the United Kingdom and taking these as the case studies. This mixed method study has employed the in depth interview techniques with the use of semi-structured questions. Major retailers in the United Kingdom have been adopting strategies and policies of customer relationship management. Results have indicated that, effective CRM can influences positively and thus to ensure business growth and profitability. The Loyalty Card holders of both Tesco and Sainsbury's do not frequently shop at other retailers, responsiveness is the key factor for effective CRM, and newsletters sent to the customers are the most reliable way for information sharing.

The study sought to explore the impact of fleet management on logistics management in the retail sector of Zimbabwe. The study was guided by the objectives that included to determine the impact of fleet management on inventory control, to assess the impact of fleet management on material handling and to ascertain the impact of fleet management on distribution communication. The study adopted pragmatism research philosophy and the correlational research design. The study population comprised 40 participants that were drawn from selected retails in Zimbabwe. A total of 30 questionnaires were successfully returned to yield a 75% overall response rate. Findings deduced from the study proved that a positive correlation existed between fleet management and logistics management. Conclusions and recommendations that for the retail sector of Zimbabwe to succeed requires to have constant change and upgrade on their fleet, master distribution routes and adopt innovation in managing the fleet.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of total quality management on organization performance in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company. Specifically, the study examines the variables product quality, operational quality and customer service quality that has their effect on organization performance. This study is conducted on explanatory design of research. The study employs stratified with simple random sampling technique to select the sample respondents. Findings indicate that product quality followed by customer service quality and operational quality have a significant positive effect on organization performance.

Over the last decennia, shipping has gradually been included as an important asset in the economic policy and law making of the European Union and of Member States. This was overdue since transport, and particularly shipping, is a key factor in economic life and a fundamental element in international trade relations. It would be worth mentioning here that the EU is the biggest trading area in the world accounting for more than 20% of world trade. Ninety per cent of the Community's external trade, and about 30% of the intra-community one, is carried by sea. Finally, 40% of Europe's external trade is carried by vessels of European ownership and/or control. The European shipping industry has invested 80 billion US dollars in mobile assets, while, in 1994, the industry's turnover was estimated at 50 billion US dollars.

Handbook of Research on Metaheuristics for Order Picking Optimization in Warehouses to Smart Cities is a novel, innovative and adequate source of information that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about diverse issues related with Order Picking Optimization in Warehouses on different ways about Intelligent Optimization, Industrial Applications on real-world, Social applications and Technology applications each one with a different perspective about the correct solution of this kind of methodologies.

This book is a collective effort to introduce new ideas and paradigms from a variety of perspectives using innovative techniques related with Bioinspired Algorithms, metaheuristics and methodologies associated with Artificial Intelligence. An innovative Handbook specialized on optimization considers different aspects to realize this “Intelligent Optimization” tries to improve with innovative techniques and methodologies different daily aspects of our lives, in each one of them is possible to understand the
necessity of improve scenarios, distances, time, costs, spaces and a plethora of features associated with the modern life (labor associated with organize, kept, and delivery of goods, materials or products). We received manuscripts from renowned researchers from all around the world associated with Theoretical foundations of Order Picking Optimization algorithms to understand many paradigms on different Optimization implementation kind. In addition, we receive many manuscripts with expertise on improving optimization related with Order Picking Optimization of deliveries associated with products and services, Optimization of different elements in the time and location, Social Applications to enjoy our life of a better way to improve the life in a Smart City, and finally, Technologies Applications of diverse ways to increase our Life Quality. The book starts with a section entitled “Mathematical Operation of the Order Picking Problem,” featuring six chapters on the theoretical and mathematical ideas
related with the correct implementation of diverse range of Order Picking optimization algorithms and Logistics applications on real world. The next section is named “Innovative Aspects of Applied Metaheuristics for the Resolution of Order Picking,” featuring five chapters related with different comparatives of metaheuristics used in order picking optimization algorithms and intelligent logistics in the search to improve resources in diverse aspects of our transportations or improve process to this. The third section is named “Avant-Garde Applications in the Use of Order Picking Models to Improve Competitiveness in the Supply Chain Sector of Companies in the Manufacturing Industry,” featuring six chapters related with different comparatives of order picking optimization algorithms and intelligent logistics models in the search to improve resources in diverse aspects of companies and to improve our lives. And finally, the section entitled “Innovation in the Context of Industry 4.0 and Applications Beyond the Technology Associated With Smart Manufacturing” grouped nine different papers related with solutions derived of
specific aspects try to improve daily activities on optimization with real applications to social topics.

This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure projects worth US$90 billion and representing different project types, geographical regions, and historical periods, it is found with overwhelming statistical significance that the cost estimates used to decide whether such projects should be built are highly and systematically misleading. Underestimation cannot be explained by error and is best explained by strategic misrepresentation, that is, lying. The policy implications are clear: legislators, administrators, investors, media representatives, and members of the public who value honest numbers should not trust cost estimates and cost-benefit analyses produced by project promoters and their analysts.