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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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