CASE STUDY

Mishair World Cargo Case Study

Executive Summary

Mishair World Cargo is a carrier company that is offering logistic services to the pharmaceutical companies. The logistics analysis has shown that the company is having many deficiencies in effectively managing its services. There is lack of management in all the areas from finance to data collection and integration. There is also inappropriate management of employees that is resulting in lack of employee morale and efficiency. The paper aims at discussing the problems in detail that the company is facing. The possible solutions are also suggested that can help the company in managing its operations in an effective way and that can give the company competitive advantage.

Contents

Introduction4

Discussion5

Identified problems5

Data and information requirements6

Reflective comments7

References9

Mishair World Cargo Case Study

Introduction

With the increase in globalization, the needs and requirements of the industries have been increased. One of the major requirements of manufacturing companies is that they need their products to be efficiently and carefully reach to their desired destination. The globalization has made the scope of carrier companies more broad and widen.

Mishair World Cargo is also on the successful carrier companies that provides its services worldwide. The company provides its best quality services particularly to the pharmaceutical industries. The company is operating and offering its services for past twenty years.

Pharmaceutical products require special care and security measures while transporting goods from one place to another. Such products require be handling and keeping at their ideal temperature throughout their journey. In order to effectively manage the services, the companies require to be aligning with the international and national changing opportunities and issues and they need to follow the pharmaceutical codes of practices. This point has given many challenges to the carrier companies and so the Mishair World Cargo is also having some management problems and challenges in providing such careful service. The problems that company is facing are defined in later section.

Discussion

The continuous changes in the global issues such as increased security concerns and changes in the fuels and tax rates have given many challenges to the Mishair World Cargo. The careful analysis of the operation has found that the company has serious issues in managing the risk, handling pharmaceutical goods, and it is also having the difficulties in complying with pharmaceutical codes of practices for carrying and handling the dangerous goods and medicines.

Identified problems

The following structural and operational problems are identified by the analysis that Mishair World Cargo is having in particular and that needs to be corrective for successive and profitable business operations.

The company lacks the adequate strategies in complying with legislative authorities both at the nationally and internationally. This can give the company with serious losses and can increase the risks of health and safety issues.

The company is also having inadequate financial management that is affecting the appropriate allocating of funds in implementing the procedures for the effective management and handling of dangerous pharmaceutical products.

The company seriously lacks the appropriate management of data. The record is found to have no reliability and ...