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BUSS-B 2002 Warehousing - Middle East College
Learning Outcome 1: Apply basic warehousing knowledge to practical situations.
Learning Outcome 2: Develop the knowledge of state-of-the-art warehousing practices.
Assignment Objective
Be able to apply theory to practice in familiar and unfamiliar situations, Explaining and reasoning, Interpreting ideas, Skimming information through documents and make sense of information and to make the appropriate connections, Communicate ideas and opinions in writing.
Assignment Tasks
Background information about Kimberly Company
- They have single distribution center in the UK
- UK market was largest market for Kimberly in Europe/ first market that was penetrated in Europe
- Greater than 4,000 active products are distributed to the European Market
- Suppliers base focused in China (30- 50 suppliers)
- 2,000 - 3,000 ships to addresses in Europe
- Customers of Kimberley in Europe are: wholesale and Retail (incl. direct store deliveries).
- Strategic markets UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Spain, Portugal and Russia
- Customers require delivery within 2 days of ordering. This means 1 day for order receipt and warehouse preparation and 1 day for final distribution.
Assignment
- You act as a business consultancy team for Kimberly to optimize their distribution centers in Europe.
- As a business consultative team, you take a consultative approach towards helping Kimberly to select their warehouse locations based on the factors that are provided in the background.
Task steps
- Decide upon optimal location of the warehouses by choosing the two most appropriate warehouses based on qualitative factors.
- Present your outcome to the board of Kimberly based on the location decision criteria for distribution centers. Which countries are the best locations for investing in distribution centers?
- You have to convince the board of Kimberly for the best two locations and you have to give explanations for your support.
1200 to 1500 Words to complete the assignment.
Attachment:- Assignment - Warehousing.rar