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Logistics in Your Organization
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Read the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide to learn how the instructor will evaluate your discussion participation throughout this course.
How would you describe logistics in your organization? Describe the nature of the process and how it is used to deliver a service or product to your customer. Using the principles and techniques of logistics management, consider how your organization’s logistics process creates value. How do logistics processes in your industry compare to those of organizations in other industries (such as service or manufacturing)?
Note: Throughout the course, you will be asked to consider and discuss real-world examples from your own experiences in your organization. Unless otherwise specified, you can use your current organization, a previous employer, or any other with which you are familiar—provided you can obtain sufficient information about that organization to submit a complete response. If you have any concern about sharing confidential corporate information, please disguise the organization’s name and data.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peers. For each response, include the following:
- What is unique about your organization’s logistics operations, when compared to your peer’s? Briefly list the pros and cons of each system. Specify the similarities or differences that can be identified as competitive advantages.
- What additional information might you need in order to better understand the processes your peer describes, and their function within the organization?
- What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
Trends and Security Issues with Logistics
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How have supply chain management (SCM) and logistics developments in the business environment (such as the advent of the Internet, centralized distribution, point of sale, and JIT) changed the delivery of services and products over the past 15 years?
- Consider how your logistics processes have changed in order to create value for your organization and its shareholders. Identify specific examples.
- Focus on one specific development in processes and techniques that has influenced positive changes in your business environment. (If you cannot identify a positive change, discuss one that you consider to have positive potential.)
- How have trends and security issues in the business environment added to the complexity of logistics in your organization?
- Compare changes in your organization to those of others in the industry.
- Cite an example of an organization that has not kept abreast of changes. Describe how you think that organization failed, missed, or neglected the process of its evolution.
- Cite an example of a leading organization that has embraced change. Briefly describe that organization’s best practices in regard to that change.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peers. For each response, include the following:
- Compare how the logistics process of your peer’s organization has changed with how your organization’s process has changed. Identify specific examples.
- What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
