Logistics and Supply Chain Management in LINFOX Logistics

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
Logistics management................................................................................................2
Relevance of the supply chain to the operations of the company..............................3
Analysis of the present supply chain of the LINFOX logistics.................................4
Problems of the logistics network..............................................................................5
Strategies for solving the problems............................................................................7
Conclusion......................................................................................................................8
References....................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
This report aims to discuss the topic of logistics in Intermodal company in Australia.
The report focusses on the significance of the supply chain management, particularly the
intention of this study is in gaining knowledge about logistics of the company and understand
the issues in logistics and provide with appropriate solutions. This study can be used for
gaining insight regarding the business needs and the effective logistics management in the
companies and how to deal with them.
The aspect of supply chain management and logistics are both combined in the SCM.
SCM is considered as the combination of the the inventory location, production, and logistics
in the supply chain (Priest, 2014). The strategic and the systematic collaboration of the
purposes accomplishes the most suitable coordination of the response and efficiency in
fulfilling the demands of the customers.
Discussion
Logistics management
Logistics is the sector of supply chain, which controls, conducts the planning and then
deploys the movement of inventory, which is the goods and services, from them origin point
of the production to the ultimate customer. In any corporate markets, the scope of the
logistics involves the shipping, transportation, import and the warehousing and the export
operations. Additionally, the logistics also monitors the inventory management, planning of
the production, and the customer services (Constant and Han, 2013). The significance of the
performance in supply chain is significant. Any effective performance system of the supply
chain could offer the base for understanding the supply chain system of the company. This
influences the behaviour of the supply chain and importantly, this displays the information
related to the consequences of the supply chain to the stakeholders and the company.

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Commonly, the role of the performance of supply chain is immense in the development of the
any strategy for any company. It can be observed that the well-planned performance system
of the supply chain leads to the improvements in overall performance of any company
(Hartley, 2014). The performance of the supply chain and logistics are measured in the basis
of cost reduction. The lack in the appropriate measurement system of performance is a key
complication in forming of any efficient supply chain. The supply chain in any company is
considered to be time-driven and cost-efficient.
The company that is selected for the analysis is the LINFOX logistics. The company
is a supply chain company that is established in Australia. The company presently is
considered to thebe the biggest privately owned company of supply chain solutions in the
Asia pacific. The operation of the Linfox logistics is almost 3.2 million square metres of the
vehicles and the warehousing across almost 10 countries and the company provides
employment to almost 23,000 people in the country New Zealand, Asia and Australia
(Pratama and Simatupang, 2013). The speciality of the company is in the complex design of
the supply chain, system integration of the IT, operations of distribution, linehaul, warehouse
management and the freight forwarding.
Relevance of the supply chain to the operations of Linfox
Supply chain of the company is huge and this leads to that it provides for any market
in the local areas and they also export to the countries. In the market of Australian, the
company gains a huge share of the revenue from the transport facilities and the services that
are offered by the company. It has been stated by the researchers that the procuring and
maintaining the information of the supply chain is considered to be important task for any
organisation. In the transport organisations, flow of the process is involved from the
obtaining of the orders of transport to the delivery of the items to the final destination,
planning, the control, and monitoring are the major responsibilities and the supply chain of