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Economic Opportunit y or Threat?: Linda Forbes - Unit B8 - May 2007
Economic Opportunit y or Threat?: Linda Forbes - Unit B8 - May 2007
Logistic
s
Economic
opportunit
y
or threat?
• Changing practices
• Recent legislation
• Conclusions
Supply Chain Management
– procure
– make
– move
– store
– service
Logistics
– movement of products between points
– activities involved in making this happen
– various stages of a supply chain
Supply Chain Management
• 15 factories
• 2,500 products
• 25,000 customers
• 14 distribution centres
• 7,500 components
returns by sector
catalogue retailing 30%
books and magazines 10-20%
durable products 4%
music & entertainments 10%
Conclusions