Logistics and Supply chain management | Assignment

Running head: LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Logistics and Supply chain management
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Table of contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
About the organisation...............................................................................................................2
Alternatives to be considered for accommodating pick up method...........................................3
Flexibility of SANDC and its impact in home shopping...........................................................4
Methods to improve SANDC.....................................................................................................5
Logistics management strategies required to resolve issues......................................................7
Flow of goods in a warehouse....................................................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Reference..................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Logistics are a bunch of activities that take place within the premises of an
organisation. A supply chain is a network of companies that work in a united manner and
coordinate the actions to meet the demands of the customers. According to Christopher
(2016), logistics and supply chain management of organisations are important to understand
the manner in which flow of goods within an organisation takes place. Logistics management
focuses on the procurement, distribution and maintenance of inventory within an
organisation. It is a simple method of providing services to customers by incorporating a
systematic flow of good from one level to another.
The assignment focuses on John Lewis Partnership and the strategies required by the
company to solve its issues about the supply chain management. The change in demand
pattern in the market requires that the goods be received at the pickup stations (Jacobs, Chase
and Lummus 2014). The assignment suggests alternative methods to manage the pickup of
goods and deliver it to the customers. The flexibility of SANDC is considered and the impact
it can have on home shopping is analysed in the assignment. Furthermore, the assignment
provides methods to improve the SANDC and provides a framework that highlights the flow
of goods in a warehouse.
About the organisation
John Lewis Partnership is a British retail company that operates the departmental
store, John Lewis. One of the subsidiaries of the company is Waitrose and are related to other
related activities in the retail, banking and financial sectors. The company was founded in
Oxford Street situated in London in 1929 (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk 2018). Some of the
products that the company manufactures include clothing, watches, jewellery, cosmetics,

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food and financial services. However, it has been seen that the number of employees in the
company has dipped in the last year. Currently, the company owns 88,900 employees
working across the different branches across the country (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk 2018).
One of the reasons behind the fame of the company is the fact that it manufactures
accessories that are suitable to meet the needs and demands of the middle as well as the
upper-class customers. Apart from clothes, John Lewis Partnership also possesses Ocado web
supermarket that is in collaboration with food items of Waitrose and the non-food items of
John Lewis (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk 2018).
Alternatives to be considered for accommodating pick up method
In the modern world, it is necessary that the goods be picked up from a location that
can be convenient for the customers as well as the organisations. Pick up stations are
managed by the organisations that help in maintaining the transferring of goods from one
place to another. In this regard, it can be said an effective method of material handling
equipment needs to be adopted by the organisations so that it can gain the benefits of the
effective picking up of goods. Some of the effective methods include:
Conveyors: The use of a conveyor is to move materials frequently from one place to
another by using a fixed path. In such cases, placement of the goods needs to be done in a
place that is convenient for the machine to pick up the goods (Brandenburg et al. 2014). The
conveyors are characterised keeping in mind the type of products that are being handled. In
the case of John Lewis, the products are mainly the clothing or jewellery item that does not
have huge size and weight. However, one negative point of the conveyors is the fact that if
the material is damaged then it may be difficult for the company to find an alternate route of
displacing the product.