Logistics management practices and development in Thailand

Abstract

Many firms are starting to focus on the effective and efficient supply chain management in Asia. This empirical paper reports on the state of existing logistics management practices in Thailand. The main results reveal that firms prefer agile suppliers. Also, most of the logistics costs incurred are on transportation and warehousing. Firms that have instituted logistics departments are making an effort in upgrading their logistical systems and are more pervasive in using technology to manage logistics as compared to firms without formalised logistics departments. The factors hindering logistics development include inefficient logistics information systems, acute transportation bottlenecks, and the lack of logistics management expertise. Finally, future logistics managers need to be competent in modern technology and possess logistics specific skills.

Demand choices of high-tech industry for logistics service providers—an empirical case of an offshore science park in Taiwan

“…These results for high-tech industry are not different from those found for other industries (e.g. Goh & Pinaikul, 1998;Menon et al, 1998;Murphy & Daley, 1997;Premeaux, 2002). As for the perceived TPL capability, it was not statistically credited because the outsourcing mission was still monotonically simple in the study park.…”

“…Fifteen important references used:McGinnis and Kohn (1990),Matear and Gray (1993),Daugherty et al (1996),Murphy and Daley (1997),Bagchi and Virum (1998),Menon et al (1998),Razzaque and Sheng (1998),Goh and Pinaikul (1998),Menon et al (1998), Jenkins (1999,Tracey and Tan (2001),Premeaux (2002),Lu (2003),Sohail and Sohail (2003) andLieb and Bentz (2004).…”

Effective cost minimization strategy and an optimization model of a reliable global supply chain system

“…One of the most popular methods for maintaining a competitive advantage is to enhance the value of suppliers, manufactures, and customers while efficiently performing supply chain system activities. Consequently, most of the manufacturers show increasing concern about their supply chain management applications (Goh & Pinaikul, 1998). An efficient supply chain management is a significant multi-disciplinary subject in recent industrial fields and academic research.…”

Logistics performance of the Thai food industry

“…Many concepts were used to assess the performance of logistics with a variety of concepts, levels and depths (Caplice and Sheffi, 1995;Chow et al, 1994;Mentzer and Konrad, 1991;Tippayawong et al, 2015). For Thai companies, tools and concepts of logistics have been adopted and understood differently due to either experience, product type, customer requirement, size, policy or nationality of firms (Goh and Pinaikul, 1998;Iijima and Sugawara, 2005;Kengpol and Tuominen, 2009;Sopadang et al, 2014). Standing in the middle and being authorized as the official logistics driver and facilitator of Thai industry, the Division of Logistics in Ministry of Industry of Thailand, simplifies the concepts of logistics and introduces a Thailand tailor-made logistics performance measurement tools, called "Industrial Logistics Performance Indicators (ILPI)".…”