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Table of ContentsTopic 1:............................................................................................................................................4A:Mediterranean Shipping Company..............................................................................................4B. Intermodal or multimodal choice:...............................................................................................5C. Link between inventory, warehouse and multimodal/intermodal choice...................................7TOPIC 2...........................................................................................................................................8A.Rational of the business:.......................................................................................................8B.Factors determining location decisions........................................................................................9C.Influence of location in future business expansion:...................................................................11References......................................................................................................................................142
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EXECUTIVE SUMARYIn a chain of supply, a warehouse comes in as where goods pause; some are processed, takenaccount of and packaged then supplied to the general market. It facilitates the storage ofintermediate products and in some cases transforms them into finished products. Mediterraneanshipping company is one of the world best shipping companies that offer ocean carriage services,warehousing, and road and rail infrastructure. The facility is facilitated to suit the servicesprovided in the warehouse and the facilities also take care of the wellbeing of workers.Intermodal or multimodal choice is whereby more than two modes of transport are used to movegoods from one place to another. The location of a business determines its success, MSC islocated in an area with adequate supply of raw materials, good roads security and consumers ofits products are highly concentrated in the area favorable location can make the business grow infuture while a contrary situation leads to the fall of a company. Due to its presence in thefavorable area with good road, consumers and security, it’s likely to grow in future. Howeverthere is competition from other shipping companies around the Mediterranean region. 3
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Topic 1:A: Mediterranean Shipping CompanyA warehouse is an important thing in the chain of supply (Business Model Adaptation toInstitutional Voids) A warehouse can facilitate The storage of intermediate products andtransform them into finished products, could be found at any level of supply It gives room forstorage, processing, packaging and distribution of goods. Products to be stored are paused in awarehouse under which its facilities suit the goods to be stored in the warehouse. (Tajti(Thaythy, 2014). Goods are stored in the warehouse where they are delivered after someoneplaces an order through the online means and goods are paid on cash at delivery. MSC is thenumber one shipping company with efficient warehouse operations and also E-businessoperations in the world .MSC transports all kinds of goods ranging from food, clothes, utensilsand electronics among so many others. An international transaction via this mode is also madeeasier, what one has to do is go to the internet, search their website and order for their services.(Supporting business process analysis via data warehousing, 2011). Warehouses play significant role in all stages of supply chain management. For example,the manufacturers of goods receive raw materials, work-in-progress goods and spare parts fromthe suppliers which the store in the warehouses. The manufacturers after manufacturing finishedgoods send them to shipping companies like Mediterranean Shipping Company which againstore these goods in the warehouses (Chen, Lu and Xu, 2012). Thus, the warehouses playsignificant role in the supply chain management as storage facilities of finished goods.4
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