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1、本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译毕业设计（论文）题目： 基于供应链管理的达方电子公司的采购管理研究 外文题目： Logistics Make the World Go Round 译文题目： 物流推动世界运转 学 生 姓 名： 高颖 专 业： 物流工程 指导教师姓名： 徐方超 评 阅 日 期： Logistics Make the World Go RoundDuring a panel discussion titled, Logistics: Bridge to Global Prosperity, at the June 8-9 Wharton Global Forum in Istanb
2、ul, moderator George Day described logistics as the connective tissue that makes the global economy work. Logistics, he said, can be a huge source of competitive advantage and help expand and launch new business models. Combined with information technology, he added, logistics can dramatically exten
3、d the geographic reach of both large and small organizations. To explore the ever-expanding role of logistics, Day was joined on the panel by Michel Akavi, CEO of DHL Worldwide Express, Middle East, Mirzan bin Mahathir, executive chairman and president of Malaysia-based Konsortium Logistiks Berhad,
4、and Yavuz Cizmeci, chairman of Turkeys ACT Airlines.Logistics is moving the right product in the right quantities to the right place at the right time, stated Day, a Wharton marketing professor who has studied performance-based logistics in such companies as Cisco Systems and General Electric. The r
5、eally good supply chains have significantly lower costs, lower inventory and better customer service. Consider Cisco. Its after-sales service group is a $4 billion business and delivers 720,000 spare parts to the companys various manufacturing facilities. Logistics services include customers, field
6、engineers, and fulfillment, distribution and materials repair centers. The more effectively you manage logistics, the more effectively you take uncertainty out of the system, he said.Eight Trends in LogisticsPanelist Michel Akavi told the audience that when he asked a conference organizer where the
7、panel was taking place, she replied that people would be arriving a little late and a bit slowly. I said, Great. They need a logistics session to wake them up.Akavi provided that wake-up call with a discussion of what he sees as eight trends that currently affect logistics. The first is the explosio
8、n of global trade and global production due to the the toppling of the old political order, especially the fall of communism. In addition, customs barriers have fallen, especially in Europe, and there is greater trade between the continents eastern and western parts. Akavi also cited NAFTA (North Am
9、erica Free Trade Agreement), MERCOSUR (the South American Free Trade Pact), the World Trade Organization, and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) as creating a wave of international trade. The more this happens, the more there is a need for logistics.Look at the Internet, he noted. Being a
10、 door-to-door document delivery company, we were scared of the Internet. But fortunately, documents still need to be signed, sealed and stamped . .We hope Turkey will not adopt the bad habit of electronic signatures when it joins the EU, he said with a smile, adding that goods do not travel electron
11、ically, thank goodness. The more people use the Internet, the more business there is, the heavier the packages are and the greater the need for letters to move around the world.The second trend is the transition to a post-industrial society, Akavi said. We have a stagnating population in western cou
12、ntries; the average age is increasing, more money is spent on communication and health, and less is spent on mass produced products. The trend is to more individual transient niche goods combined with services. That means a greater variety of goods needs to be transported, in more specialized ways,
13、directly to users/consumers. So the logistics industry must specialize in niches, such as the textile industry whose players need to be very responsive to fashion trends. You cannot produce a million products in one place at one time. You have to produce them quickly, often in different parts of the
14、 world. The third trend is that we now live in an on-demand world, Akavi said. We are a time-is-money society. We are moving to time-based competition. Speed is almost more important than a cheap price. You see that in micro electronics, with chips and game consuls. With PCs and phones, the term use
15、d is agility - the ability to get to the market first. Demand is changing the logistics world.The fourth trend is a growing environmental sensibility. People now ask: How can we transport less, more efficiently, and how can we do more recycling, Akavi said. In Europe, we see that the trucks on highways are getting more restricted. Austria is banning some truck traffic on weekends. Rails are being used more often to transport goods because less energy is used. There is also more concern about noisy planes. We had to change our fleet in Brussels to quieter planes, and we are moving the Bruss
