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Warehouse Location Decision in Pakistan:A Real Case Study
International Journal of Supply Chain Management
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Warehouse Location Decision in Pakistan:A Real Case Study
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Khan, Sharfuddin Ahmed; Industrial Engineering & Management Department College of Engineering University of Sharjah Sharjah 27272 Uinted Arab Emirates Zaidi, Syed Adeel Haneef; Mechanical engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran, 31261 Saudi Arabia |
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The manufacturing industry in Pakistan ispassing through a critical phase of its history. In the changing market placeconsumer are increasingly vigilant and demanding better quality, morecompetitive prices and shorter lead times. Maintaining cost effectivemanufacturing along with it distribution to the different customers across thecountry is becomes challenging day by day. In this paper, we propose anadditional new warehouse location in Pakistan using transportation cost as adecision factor. Initially the proposed warehouse will be run by the third partywarehouse service provider on temporary basis, so that it lower down theinventory level of Lahore warehouse from 0.4 million liters to 0.2 millionliters, saves approximately 1.5 Million Rs. / year with improved customerservice .
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International Journal of Supply Chain Management
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2013-06-30
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Peer-reviewed Article
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application/pdf
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http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/index.php/IJSCM/article/view/772
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International Journal of Supply Chain Management; Vol 2, No 2 (2013): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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en
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http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/index.php/IJSCM/article/download/772/2525
http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/index.php/IJSCM/article/download/772/2526 |
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The copyright of the contribution is transferred to IJSCM in case of acceptance. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the contribution, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form, or any other reproductions of similar nature.The Author may publish his/her contribution on his/her personal Web page provided that he/she creates a link to the mentioned volume of IJSCM.The Author may not publish his/her contribution anywhere else without the prior written permission of the publisher unless it has been changed substantially. The Author warrants that his/her contribution is original, except for such excerpts from copyrighted works as may be included with the permission of the copyright holder and author thereof, that it contains no libellous statements, and does not infringe on any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory right, or propriety right of others.The Author also agrees for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors.
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