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Analysis of Value-Added Process for a Logistics
System in Manufacturing Business: A Case
Study of Yurun Food Company
Yueqin Tang, Qing Zhuang, and Panpan Wen
Abstract
The logistics process of a manufacturing business is a value-added
process, in which the value added proceeds with each logistics procedure. Therefore,
the design and operation of the various logistics procedures must be customer-
oriented. This paper deals with value-added process within a logistics system for
Yurun Food Company, summarizing the feature on time value of logistics and space
value of logistics. It concludes that a thought of moving towards integration as
the company did is required. On the one hand, it reduces the logistics costs, thus
lowering the total cost of the firm; on the other hand, it extends rapid logistics
service to meet the customers need, resulting in enhancing the core competitiveness
of a manufacturing enterprises.
Keywords
Logistics system Value-added process Yurun Food Co.
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Introduction
With rapid development in economy technology and business management, more
and more manufacturing businesses focus on the third profits source—logistics. This
is because the room to make a further cost reduction becomes smaller and smaller
in the producing and selling area, while many businesses exploit the potential of
logistics links like transportation, warehousing, distribution, and stocking process.
Whether the function of logistics system is reasonable, it does not depend on how
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