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MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
"The external factors of truck manufacturer in EU and USA over the next decade"
Lecturer: Professor Alan McKinnon
Student Reg/No: 081448766
The word count: 2108
Table of content
Executive summary
1. Introduction
2. Emerging trends, challenges
3. Narrowing the trends and challenges
3.1 PEST analysis in EU and USA auto market
3.2 SWOT analysis - internal sector analysis
4. Challenges of auto industry logistical system
5. Findings from the study
Conclusion
References
List of Figures
Figure 1: PEST analyses on EU and USA truck logistics industry
Figure 2: The Supply Chain Cost
Figure 3: SWOT analyses in auto manufacturing industry
Figure 4: Challenges to meeting The Supply Chain Objectives
Figure 5: Scenarios of EU transport and logistics sector in 2017
Figure 6: Gaining profit in logistics strategically perspective
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This case study has outlined 'The external factors of truck manufacturer over the next decade' using related methods and analysis.
As the emerging trends and challenges are outlined by many authors and has been in the interest of logistics research, this study has focused on the auto industry, using SWOT and PEST analysis as a filter of summary of all the trends and challenges. Auto industry has a relative long lifecycle, huge dependence of long term external environment, trends and dependence on infrastructural development.
In the fist part of this report, the introduction of the company followed external factors of, with recent challenges of logistics sections. Second part, external and internal analysis, third PEST and SWOT are explained and made with the possible predictions and ways to overcome the challenges used to determine current challenges in Logistics with future foreseen points, where PEST and SWOT analysis has made in EU and USA truck industry based on current and general economical...