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Trends for Ceiling Heights and Truck Dock Facilities
As the market conditions are changing due to the change in supply chain strategy and advancement in technology, the need of expanding warehouses is also increasing in order to provide proper environment for the purpose of storing goods and materials. Therefore, due to increase in the ratio of storing goods, there is a trend for greater ceiling heights as compared to historical ceiling heights in order to reduce operating and non-operating costs.
Therefore in order to better handle the material and for cost saving related to material handling and distribution cost most warehouses contain truck dock facilities even for large shipments.
How Third Party Logistic Firms Changing the Sector
Third party logistic firms are expected to be specialized and expert in warehousing and transportation and in all parts of supply chain management functions. Therefore,nowadays mostly manufacturing firms used outsourced logistics services for efficient, timely and specializes supply chain processes. Third party logistic companies have completely changed the supply chain sector by increasing standards of all functions related to supply chain management.
In addition to providing logistic facilities with high quality it is expected that outsourcing firms are providing these facilities at low cost due to intense competition in this sector, therefore third party logistic companies reduce the burden of manufacturing firms regarding handling and transportation and enabled them to focus on core activities, which helps the manufacturing firms by increasing their profitability.
How JIT technology changed the Sector
Just in time technology is about providing services and products on demand with cost effectiveness and of higher quality without managing large inventory. Adoption of just in time technology helps the organizations by making production operations more efficient, cost effective and consumer responsive. It completely changes the sector by providing competitive advantage to those firms that have adopted this technology over those firms who have not.........................
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