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1. Observation / Interview Business Assignment Please pick up one small business on your own and observe their logistics activities. Interview someone from the business you observed. The company called "Korlead Industry CO., LTD." founded in 1986. They have the factories in Pingtung City (Taiwan's eastern export processing zone), Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, as well as a factory in Thailand. The company has five main production lines, the main production of various kinds of semi-finished rubber products to provide the downstream firms with the product into finished products, such as the dust cover. a. Please write down the detailed processes/logistics activities associated to the course. The main purpose of the company when they …show more content…

Need to adjust the demand plans to ensure the resource be allocated well. During the interview, he said that almost all the factories do not really have a stable supplier, the percentage of the flexible is around 30% up to 70%. The reason is that the cost could be more flexible, and another reason is that after they got the order, their clients need to identify the material in keeping with the rules. Usually, we would think that if I have a long contract relationship with some supplier, then the cost for the material could keep the cost down, but in fact, when the company only have one supplier, it would be hard to bargain, also if the supplier cut the supply, the hold system will be effect. It is important for purchasing group to grasp the stock they have, for example, this company they use to keep 90 days safety stock. Also, it is another quite profound knowledge in their logistics department. In this part, they definitely will have a establish long cooperation relations with some logistic company, but because the different prices, the company will be different when the packages are of different …show more content…

But most of the factories in this industry has almost the same process, the only difference is “People”. Supposing that the relationship between manufacturing and supplier did not implement well, in order to achieve a coordinated relationship, need to let the entire supply chain develop in a benign direction by making the appropriate strategy based on the actual situation of

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