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In today’s challenging competition in the wooden products, enterprises are facing many difficulties and challenges. The financial difficulties due to rising bank’s interest rates, raw material prices are going up, related costs are also escalating. Therefore enterprises need to point out a strategy to cope and adapt to the current situation.
Toward production and business activities of a company, there are many determinants of success or failure of that company such as products, services, human factors, prices, etc and there is an important factor that influences the production and business of a company is logistics activities. This factor will be the competitive advantage of enterprise when it is managed well from placing orders to the import of materials to production and to delivery of goods. The order and import of materials at the right time will reduce storage charges, bank’s interest rates and extra charges especially to ensure the input materials always available for producing products and delivering products to customers on time. But at the time being, Le Lumber company’s logistics activities have not been really effective, these activities usually take place quite long and affect greatly production, distribution and profit.
With many years experience working at import – export department at Le Lumber Company, with knowledge through courses, the study would like to explore the related strategy of logistics activities on Le Lumber Company to understand the status of Le Lumber Company’s logistics activities, find out the problems of logistics activities, propose the solutions to solve the difficulties of logistics activities in Le Lumber Company and help the company improve the logistics management activities and to reduce all the risks in payment, in delivery and receipt of goods, cut down costs.

In today’s challenging competition in the wooden products, enterprises are facing many difficulties and challenges. The financial difficulties due to rising bank’s interest rates, raw material prices are going up, related costs are also escalating. Therefore enterprises need to point out a strategy to cope and adapt to the current situation.
Toward production and business activities of a company, there are many determinants of success or failure of that company such as products, services, human factors, prices, etc and there is an important factor that influences the production and business of a company is logistics activities. This factor will be the competitive advantage of enterprise when it is managed well from placing orders to the import of materials to production and to delivery of goods. The order and import of materials at the right time will reduce storage charges, bank’s interest rates and extra charges especially to ensure the input materials always available for producing products and delivering products to customers on time. But at the time being, Le Lumber company’s logistics activities have not been really effective, these activities usually take place quite long and affect greatly production, distribution and profit.
With many years experience working at import – export department at Le Lumber Company, with knowledge through courses, the study would like to explore the related strategy of logistics activities on Le Lumber Company to understand the status of Le Lumber Company’s logistics activities, find out the problems of logistics activities, propose the solutions to solve the difficulties of logistics activities in Le Lumber Company and help the company improve the logistics management activities and to reduce all the risks in payment, in delivery and receipt of goods, cut down costs.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I
ABSTRACT II
Contents III
Tables V
Figures VI
Chapter1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Research Purpose 2
1.3 Research Procedure 2
Chapter 2 Literature Review 4
2.1 Overview of Logistics Activities 4
2.1.1 Definition. 4
2.1.2 Role of logistics. 5
2.2 Related Studies on Logistic Activities 7
2.3 Related Studies on Logistic Activities in Vietnam 10
Chapter 3 Research Methodology 12
3.1 Research Framework 12
3.2 Case Study 14
3.3 Interview Method 14
3.4 Data Source 15
Chapter 4 Research Results and Analysis 17
4.1 Introduction of Le Lumber Company 17
4.1.1 Introduction. 17
4.1.2 Organization Structure. 18
4.2 Introduction of Logistics Activities 18
4.3 The Problem of Le Lumber Company 20
4.3.1 The problem with import of wood material. 20
4.3.2 The problem with export of wooden product. 21
Chapter 5 The Analysis of Research Results 22
5.1 Material Handling 22
5.2 Material Storage 23
5.3 Transportation 25
5.4 Order Processing 26
5.5 Warehousing 27
Chapter 6 Conclusions and Suggestions 29
6.1 Conclusions 29
6.2 Suggestions 32
6.3 Research Limitations 34
References 35
Attachment 38

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