Essays about: "logistics costs offshore"
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6. Exploring the Trend of Near-Sourcing to Eastern-Europe: the Case of Swedish Manufacturers
University essay from IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementAbstract : Outsourcing has been a way for firms to reduce their cost of production and enabling them to focus on their core competencies for decades. As the total costs for manufacturing in China – the most prominent outsourcing location, are increasing due to unfavourable mar-ket changes, which in turn leads to loss of the competitive advantage, European companies are more and more often realizing and pursuing the benefits of ‘near-sourcing’ their manu-facturing operations to Eastern European countries. READ MORE
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7. Spare Part Logistics and Optimization for Wind Turbines : Methods for Cost-Effective Supply and Storage
University essay from Avdelningen för systemteknikAbstract : The wind power industry is maturing and the amount of electricity produced by wind turbines in the world is rapidly increasing every year. Service and maintenance of wind turbines has proven to be difficult and expensive, especially offshore. READ MORE
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8. Framework for Evaluation of Strategies for Pooling of Repairable Spare Parts
University essay from Lunds universitet/ProduktionsekonomiAbstract : Background: The ability to quickly provide parts for the supply of advanced technical systems in equipment-intensive industries (such as airlines and nuclear power plants) is critical to the systems overall performance. In order to maintain a targeted system availability large quantities of spare parts are often required which in turn results in excessive inventory costs. READ MORE
