GLOBALIZATION IN LOGISTICS
Zandonà Marco, Rolli Fabio, Castiglioni Vanessa, Cambi Michela, Viviani Marco
DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION
The term is used since the 1990s to indicate a very large set of event, connected with the growth of economic, social and cultural integration between the different areas of the world.
Thanks to this process, the planet is becoming like a global village.
Nowadays, the use of this process involves that companies try to expand on the market through the search for solutions that are valid globally.
The logistics sector is one of the favorites in the age of globalization, since the action of this sector tends to move in a widespread manner, reaching any destination is required to fulfill the delivery.
Globalization had a considerable acceleration thanks to the internet and its potential.
PAST
Since ancient times, men have tried to create markets that included ever larger regions and that, therefore, could lead to greater profits.
NOW
Nations have been organizing the world into a variety of trade blocks where it is intended that goods should be exchanged without impediment across borders.
HISTORICAL HINTS
“Are we exporting our jobs as well as our goods? Are individual countries losing their identities?”
Many executives forget that their companies are only as good as the in-house talent they maintain.
GLOBALIZATION IN A HUMAN WORLD
Employers must have the ability to relate to cultural differences and interpersonal relationships. They must understand the need for work-life balance.
TASKS OF THE EMPLOYER
IMPACT ON THE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Total levels of stocks in a global supply chain are inevitable destinate to grow up because supply companies have been delocalized.
THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS
Not only have procurement sources been reorganized as a result of globalization, but markets also tend towards global diversity.
What was a set of simple national or regional "hub & spokes" production / distribution structures tends to become a complex network of integrated solutions for sources and destinations.
LOGISTICS INNOVATION:
EFFICIENCY AND INTERMODALISM
Containerization is a logistics innovation because it has generalized the use of the container as a transport unit and, as a versatile and standardized type of transport, has contributed to the emergence of intermodal transport
Intermodal transport is the transport of goods by means of transport which subsequently uses two or more means of transport.
The containerization has allowed to mechanize the management of the cargo of various dimensions, placed in these "boxes" with standardized dimensions.
In this way, goods that would have required days to be loaded and unloaded and arranged by a ship can be managed in a few minutes.
This logistics innovation has revolutionized the transport system - and in this sense also helped the growth of globalization
GANTT CHART
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