THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS CREATING VALUE FOR A CUSTOMER
Närhi, Sami (2013)
Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013121621386
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013121621386
Tiivistelmä
This thesis is about making warehousing improvements in a third-party logistics company,Logistikas, premises in Säynätsalo. The purpose was to implement a new kind of shelving layout in the Säynätsalo warehouse in order to gain better accessibility. At first the manager level proposed to make a tool for the warehouse personnel to gain information on the optimized shelf locations for individual products. Later on, after studying the product profiles and the nature of the warehousing operations in different premises, the tool was formed to be more like a warehouse layout mapping, that would include larger entities with a different customer goods range rather than just one individual product. In this case, the Säynätsalo facility holds the majority of Valtra’s
production line goods and the layout design is limited to the manufacturing product range.
The aim of the thesis is divided into two parts. In the theory part, a quantitative study was used defining what third-party logistics is and what the business field consists of. The research emphasizes to question: what kind of value does third-party logistics provide for a customer and by
what means. Some of the business publication, which provided numerical data collected globally and also a lot of valuable information that supported the answering to the thesis question. The problem solving in the company was mainly supported by the numerical data gained from the enterprise resource planning system provided. The major part of the decisions resulted from the professional opinions and requirements of the personnel.
The warehousing layout created can be seen as an answer to the company’s needs, and it will be taken into use. This layout model will also support other operations in Logistikas facilities and will be used together with the Logmaster ERP system. It is assumed that this layout will give financial
benefits to the operations in terms of efficient usage of labour, but mainly it helps to arrange the shelving operations in a more systematic and rapidly accessible order, which will support the receiving and forwarding activities.
production line goods and the layout design is limited to the manufacturing product range.
The aim of the thesis is divided into two parts. In the theory part, a quantitative study was used defining what third-party logistics is and what the business field consists of. The research emphasizes to question: what kind of value does third-party logistics provide for a customer and by
what means. Some of the business publication, which provided numerical data collected globally and also a lot of valuable information that supported the answering to the thesis question. The problem solving in the company was mainly supported by the numerical data gained from the enterprise resource planning system provided. The major part of the decisions resulted from the professional opinions and requirements of the personnel.
The warehousing layout created can be seen as an answer to the company’s needs, and it will be taken into use. This layout model will also support other operations in Logistikas facilities and will be used together with the Logmaster ERP system. It is assumed that this layout will give financial
benefits to the operations in terms of efficient usage of labour, but mainly it helps to arrange the shelving operations in a more systematic and rapidly accessible order, which will support the receiving and forwarding activities.