com/en/us/About-Us/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2008/Ocean-Spray-Awards-CHRW-Supplier-of-Year/ http://www.oceanspray.com/PDF/Ocean-Spray-Environmental-Stewardship-2012-DIGITAL.aspx#page=10 Case study 4-2 1) What rationale is offered by Ocean Spray in support of the idea of using a 3PL? Do you agree with the reasons cited for the interest in 3PL? Ans: Yes‚ I agree with this decision if Ocean Spray able to maintain their focus on their core competency while allowing a 3PL to revamp the transportation logistics
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According to a case study cited by Staudt and Stranz (2009)‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 750 cranberry growers in the United States and Canada. The company produces canned and bottled juice‚ juice drinks and food products at distribution centers in Bordentown‚ New Jersey; Kenosha‚ Wisconsin; Sulphur Springs‚ Texas; and Henderson‚ Nevada. August is usually a challenging month for Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc.‚ when the Lakeville‚ Massachusetts-based
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OceanSpray Cranberries Inc is the world’s leading grower owned corporative that harvests and exports of cranberry and grape fruit along with its bye-products in the form of juice‚ sauce‚ etc throughout the globe. Founded in 1912‚ at South Hanson‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries has managed to keep its brand name as the world leader in food products till date. It is only because of the various strategies it has adopted at different periods when encountered with a difficulty. In Cranberry Industry as described
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Spray Cranberries‚ Inc is an agricultural co-op owned by over 750 growers in the US and Canada. They produce everything from bottled juice to food products and have 4 distribution centers in the United States. During their upcoming holiday season‚ Ocean Spray Cranberries has a particular challenging time pumping up the volume to meet the surge. Ocean Spray realized that in order to maintain their leadership they needed to focus on its core competency and look for outside sources to help them reduce
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Case study 4-2 1)What rationale is offered by Ocean Spray in support of the idea of using a 3PL? Do you agree with the reasons cited for the interest in 3PL? Ocean Spray Cranberries‚ Inc. offered several reasons for using a 3PL for their transportation and logistics area. They looked at the transportation within the logistics chain and realized there was a lot of variability in this area. The company decided that it wants to centralize and bring all of it’s transportation logistics into uniformity
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Ocean Spray had facilities near Middleboro‚ Massachusetts where the processing of cranberries took place and they knowingly used the towns waste treatment facility for their waste water. This was not a problem until new water standards came about and the problems associated with Oceans Sprays activities came into light. Sludge started to grow in the waste treatment facility so the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality and Engineering became involved. The cause of the sludge was because
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develops a broad framework for analyzing logistics activities in Australia. This report will also look at the importance of Third Party Logistics to the Australian business. We will also look at the emergence of the 3PL in Australia and what benefits do the businesses get by adopting the 3PL. The most significant supply chain trend that is affecting business in Australia. Introduction Ever increasing competition in today’s global markets‚ introduction of new products
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Outsourcing Logistics Report Outsourcing Logistics – The latest trends in using 3PL providers January 2005 For further details please contact: Laura Goddard lgoddard@eyefortransport.com US Toll Free: 1 800 814 3459 ext 321 Rest of World: +44 (0) 207 375 7231 Outsourcing Logistics 2005: Best Practice for Managing 3PL Relationships April 25-26 2005 - Hyatt Regency McCormick Place‚ Chicago‚ IL www.eyefortransport.com/outsourcelog 1 Outsourcing Logistics Report Table of Contents:
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can have an important impact. The main purpose of this assignment has therefore been to investigate the advantages that accrue to stakeholders when outsourcing logistics practices to third party logistics providers (3PL) and a discussion follows as to other value adding services that 3PL organisations can provide. Table of Contents: Introduction: According to the CLM (Council of Logistics Management)‚ logistics is that part of the supply chain process that plans‚ implements
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Global 3PL Market 2014-2018 3PL is a business process through which companies outsource their logistics and distribution functions to a service provider that specializes in handling logistics functions such as transportation‚ warehousing‚ and freight and forwarding. A logistics service provider that provides these services is called a 3PL provider. Often‚ 3PL providers go beyond logistics and provide value-added services such as inventory management‚ cross-docking‚ door-to-door delivery‚ and packaging
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