Project papers

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

Exercise 43. Answer the questions using the information of the text (ST 2).

1. How is your company’s warehouse organized? 2. Do you work in a warehouse yourself? 3. How has warehousing changed over the last few years?

Exercise 44. Watch Video transcript “Warehousing and Transportation” (VT 2) and explain the following notions:

Stock-keeping unit, Electronic data interchange, Cross-docking.

Movements of people, goods and information have always been fundamental components of human societies. Contemporary economic processes have been accompanied by a significant increase in mobility and higher levels of accessibility. Although this trend can be traced back to the industrial revolution, it significantly accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century as trade was liberalized, economic blocs emerged and the comparative advantages of global labor and resources were used more efficiently. However, these conditions are interdependent with the capacity to manage, support and expand movements of passengers and freight as well as their underlying information flows. Societies have become increasingly dependent on their transport systems to support a wide variety of activities ranging, among others, from commuting, supplying energy needs, to distributing parts between factories. Developing transport systems has been a continuous challenge to satisfy mobility needs, to support economic development and to participate in the global economy. Write project papers considering:

· a definition of the nature, role and function of transport geography and where the discipline stands in regard to other disciplines;

· the importance of specific dimensions such as nodes, locations, networks and interactions;

· the consequences of technical innovations and how improvements in transportation were interdependent with contemporary economic and social changes.

All spatial flows, with the exception of personal vehicular and pedestrian trips, involve movements between terminals. With these two exceptions, all transport modes require assembly and distribution of their traffic, both passenger and freight. For example, passengers have to go to bus terminals and airports first in order to reach their final destinations, and freight has to be consolidated at a port or a rail yard before onward shipment. Terminals are, therefore, essential links in transportation chains. Write project papers considering:

· the strong spatial and functional character of transport terminals;

· strong influence of transport terminals over their surroundings;

· specific economic functions of transport terminals.

Warehouse can play a key role in the integrated logistics strategy and its building and maintaining good relationships between supply chain partners. Warehousing affects customer service stock-out rates and a firm’s sales and marketing success. A warehouse smoothens out market supply and demand fluctuations. When supply exceeds demand, a demand warehouse stores products in anticipation of customers requirements. When demand exceeds supply the warehouse can speed product movement to the customer by performing additional services like marking prices, packaging products or final assembling etc. Write project papers considering:

· types of warehouses;

· functions of warehouses;

· advantages of warehousing;

· warehouse location;

· warehouse layout and design.

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