The new director of logistics at Holt Renfrew, a high-end retailer of men's and women's fashion, was asked to prepare a detailed plan to deal with $ 40 million of warehoused stock and the stock of its chronic problems. Given the opportunity to show how logistics can benefit the company's profits, the director prepares threefold strategy: improving the physical structure and process flow in the distribution center, the modernization of distribution systems and business processes, and to reallocate human resources. His task completed the necessity of obtaining goods from international suppliers and distribute it quickly in order to compete in the rapidly growing fashion industry. "Hide
by P. Fraser Johnson, Amr Awaysheh Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 4 pages. Publication Date: November 29, 2002. Prod. #: 902D18-PDF-ENG