Logistics Issues for Western Companies Operating in China - Literature Review

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Business economics - Supply Production Logistics grade: 1.2 The University of Sydney language: English abstract: Despite the heavy commitment of the central government impediments exist for foreign companies to successfully exploit business opportunities in China. Two major studies(Kawahara et al 1995 Carter et al 1997) suggest the most important barriers to businessoperations concern the supply chain and distribution particularly transportation. The various logistics functions form major obstacles (Peng 1995 680). Although this paper focuses on supply chain issues also value chain issues will be touched as many of the outbound business functions are perceived as shared responsibility of marketing and logistics(Murphy et al 1992 14).