Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Issues and Resolutions

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Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Contents
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Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main problems with the current logistics network in NSW.........................................................................3
Resolutions to the problems........................................................................................................................3
NSW government........................................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
A mechanism through which the management of the flow of goods and services, movement and
storage of raw materials of working process in inventory and also the finished goods are
transferred from the place of production to the point of consumption and this process is known
as supply chain management ( Anvari, Ismail and Hojjati, 2011). The below-executed report is
focused on the risks and issues related to the mentioned concept.
Main problems with the current logistics network in NSW
Logistics refers to moving or transporting resources from its origin point to the target place
according to the requirements of customer or consumer. The resources that are being transferred
can be anything like food items and liquid items, animals, groceries, equipment’s, accessories
etcetera (Aziz and Hafez, 2013). Managing logistics includes planning, executing the plan and
controlling the supply of goods from one place to another and also tracking everything and
providing the related information throughout the transfer and of course keeping all the items
safe. Being a complex operation logistic management is a very tough task and faces a lot of
problems. In one way it’s the best way that aids to the growing economy yet coping with
complex mechanism it faces greater issues, likewise in North-South Wale’ current logistics are
also getting so much hard to manage to be a huge state with growing population. so there are so
many issues that the logistic networks are facing, for example, hiring a large number of labor,
managing all the data, increasing energy cost, improving the transport methods, coping with
environmental changes, handling a large number of customers at the same time and many more.
Some of the many issues that are being faced by NSW are as follow:
Handling and processing a large amount of data-transferring the resources includes heavy
amount of work to be done starting from its original place where one picks up the item to be
delivered, involving a lot of changes during the journey until the product is delivered to the
destination site and to prevent any kind of misunderstanding, it is necessary to manage all the
logistic data from origin point to target point. Since it’s a complicated work and one has to be too
precautious during the whole transfer (Bicheno and Holweg, 2016). It requires special strategies
to manage this huge amount of figures and data, ensuring the safety of the particular product,

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planning the route and crosschecking the planned route, loading and unloading the goods and last
but not the least sanctioning all the bills. Hence it's a time-consuming process and deviates one's
attention from the all other basic and important nuances of the whole process.
Coping with the environmental change-climate change has a direct impact on the transportation
services. In North South Wales during winter, occurs snowfall which leads to the road jams and
it becomes too dangerous to travel on those roads with lots of snow on them and it is too difficult
to solve this problem with any other alternatives (Goetsch and Davis, 2014). This condition aids
to the transport delays and it becomes hard to travel on the roads as well as trains as the rail
tracks get stuck due to heavy snowfall. During the summers also adverse climatic conditions
persist. The weather is too hot in summers and due to extremely hot climate logistics get
affected, for example, food items that require low temperature for their storage and liquid items
or beverages etcetera.
Managing manpower-logistic management is a huge and complicated tasks and it's not a one-
man job it requires a large no. of workers, assigned to a particular job and since it requires so
many persons and hiring such a large amount of workers is a great deal but the more important
and complex task than that is finding someone who is totally qualified for the job, hence hiring a
person is one of the main issues faced by the logistics in NSW (Junior and Mendes, 2017). Once
hiring is done then comes managing the manpower and keeping everyone on the same page is
important that is why it is the trickiest responsibility.one has maintained a proper behavior with
the labor in order to achieve the required goal of the company so handling such a huge amount of
labor becomes the bigger task. To make the transport easy the logistic managers place the
workers at different locations geographically to maintain the swift flow of goods but it is not as
easy as it sounds it's a complex mechanism including lots of plans and strategies
implementations.
Customer service-customers wants the whole detail about where their product is, when is it
coming and how is it being handled and to meet up with all these requirements customer service
is must but handling all these problems like inadequate packaging, taking longer than expected to
solve a problem, not able to communicate with the customers etcetera, is the bigger issue here
(Bak and Ozlem, 2018). Sometimes in order to deliver the items free, the transport company has
to put as many items in a single box as they can which may lead to a destruction of some items