Manuscript Number : IJSRSET1623202

Consolidation of Load in Supply Chain Management

Authors(2) :-Kanika Saini, Dr. Rahul Vaishya

Effective supply chain management (SCM) has become a potentially valuable way of securing competitive advantage and improving organizational performance since competition is no longer between organizations, but exists among supply chains. This research deals with Load Consolidation & Cubic Feet Improvement which is carried out in Logistics department. Load consolidation is method to achieve full truck load by combining or consolidate different products into one container and optimally utilizing the container. This paper also explains different problems faced by Logistics department in industry.

Authors and Affiliations

Kanika Saini
Production department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
Dr. Rahul Vaishya
Mechanical Engineering Department, Sudan University Of Science & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

Supply Chain, Load Consolidation, Cargo Optimizer, Cargo-Wiz

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 3 | May-June 2016
Date of Publication : 2016-06-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 784-788
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET1623202
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Kanika Saini, Dr. Rahul Vaishya, " Consolidation of Load in Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 2, Issue 3, pp.784-788, May-June-2016.
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