Logistics and Supply Chain Management Report for BIS Industries

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LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 1
Introduction
Logistics play a very significant part in the achievement of any organization. It is known as the
backbone of the manufacturing sectors due to its major contributions (Seuring and Müller, 2008).
Presently, logistics is suffering from various issues, especially company like BIS industries. BIS
industry is known as Australia’s giant logistic company which is in the operation of offering all
kinds of logistic services which was established in 1915. They offer services such as road
transports, warehouse at various locations and even railways logistic services. This company has
given very tough competition to every single company which is present in this market segment
by including new ideas in their operations (BIS, 2019). This company is able to maintain its
reputation with the help of its huge customer base. Also, this company is able to create its unique
image in the logistics market of Australia. The company has adopted a flexible strategy in order
to gain the transform their business operations as per the needs of the customer and try to grab
every single opportunity to maintain customer trust (Carter and Rogers, 2008). As per the new
plan this company is going to open their new sites and hub in order to increase its customer
reaches. Due to success in their each business plan the company is planning for entering in
partnership with railways. In order to attain efficiency in their operation, this company has
introduced very advanced equipment and tools. Currently, New South Wales in Australia is
suffering from larger numbers of issues in their logistics system despite the fact that Australia is
well recognized for its demographic, political and geographic and environment that provides a
favor for logistics and transportation. This report will focus on the current issues which BIS
industry is facing on both domestic as well as international platform.
Problems related to logistics in NSW
New South Wales is currently in growing phase both in population wise as well as vehicle users
wise. From past few years, a huge increase has been seen in vehicle purchase and increasing
population is also adding some push. Increasing in vehicle has totally disturbed the logistic
system of NSW in the form of traffic jams and sometimes blockage in traffic flow (Niculescu
and Minea, 2016). Especially during peak hours, traffic blockage has become one of the major
concerns for logistics companies. It has been found that travel ratio gets turned in to huge route
blockage for transport vehicles. This issue is directly impacting on the delivery time and hence is
rising dissatisfaction among the customers. As the state is on developing phase, so large numbers

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of construction sites are been found especially the construction of highways which is impacting
travel time of logistic vehicles (Gekara, Snell, Chhetri and Manzoni, 2014). People driving these
logistic vehicles have generally no idea about these construction sites and got stuck to jams
which result in a delay.
Important Concern issues
Issues are not limited to construction sites only but it is also including the road conditions which
are developed by contractors and face great challenges related to bringing regulations in the
traffic jams. The government has understood the seriousness of this issue and hence have
focused their strategies towards bringing a reduction in the traffic jam (Hanafi, Kara and
Kaebernick, 2008). The government has started paying attention towards the road conditions and
improvement in highways in order to control the addition timing and bring safety-related aspect
while driving. This has resulted in blocking of roads in many areas because of this road servicing
which is being used by the general public. As a result of this, there is more probability of
resisting of the loaded vehicle which seems to be heavy from entering on the construction zones
or some safe zones. Still, there is a lot of confusion related to the travel time associated with
logistic vehicles (Rodrigue and Notteboom, 2009).
Challenges associated with the logistic system is not only limited to road conditions but there are
many issues like environmental issues, zone wise issues and many more. BIS industry is facing
issue related to measuring the distance between the two cities. It has found out that the distance
between Sydney and Melbourne is actually creating distance measurement issue. In this
situation, every choosing the option of rail journey will not be beneficial because the availability
of petrol pump is very few as compared to the road route (Prajogo and Olhager, 2012). Hence,
BIS industry has to explore details related to time duration along with cost which is to be
considered during traveling. According to the logistic solutions related to route specific
transportation, it is very important to use strategies like network forming with the help of
different routes. Then these routes must be connected with the help of connected nodes which
will be very helpful in the future for this company.
While selecting the conveyance with the help of trains which is a really favorable approach for
the conveyance, it is connected with the extensive involvement of urban and nation itself. These