1. Describe logistics as a business process.2. What is global supply chain management? What is the role of international logistics in global supply chain management?3. Make a list of logistics activities and participants in global supply chains.4. What are channels? Give examples of different channel flows.5. What are channel intermediaries? Give examples of different types of intermediaries.6. What is a cost trade-off? Give an example from international logistics practice.1. What are some of the economic reasons causing nations to support their international carriers?2. What are some of the national defense concerns that cause nations to support their international carriers?3. Why do countries control the export of some products to certain other nations?4. What are nontariff barriers? What impacts do they have?5. What are cargo preference rules? Do you agree with the concept? Why or why not?6. What is cabotage?7. What are flags-of-convenience? Why are they used?8. Why are international airline routes more closely controlled than routes used by merchant vessels?9. Who is responsible for the safety of international transportation?10. What are some multinational groups that have an impact on international logistics?1. Explain the concept of self-referencing criteria. Give an example of how logistics practices in your country could invoke self-referencing criteria and affect your decision making.2. As a consultant to a small businessperson who is interested in beginning to export goods, what kind of advice would you give? Give three websites you might find useful as references in your advice.3. Define culture and give three examples of how culture affects logistics practice.4. Define beliefs, values, and customs. Give examples to help explain how differences in each affect logistics practices.5. Describe the first world of logistics practice. Be sure to comment on infrastructure, performance, information systems, human resources, and strategic and financial resources.6. Describe the emerging nations in terms of their logistics practice. Be sure to comment on infrastructure, performance, information systems, human resources, and strategic and financial resources.7. How do the roles of government differ between first-world logistics nations and those in the emerging world?8. Explain the concept of an economic-stepchild nation and what the implications of such a trade arrangement might be for logistics in that country.9. Describe the third world in terms of their logistics practice. Be sure to comment on infrastructure, performance, information systems, human resources, and strategic and financial resources.10. How do third-world nation trade issues affect the practice of logistics between a third-world nation and a first-world nation?11. Describe the logistics problems associated with governmental instability in third-world nations.12. What is the role of inventory when dealing with logistics in the third world?13. Give three ethical issues involved with logistics in third-world nations and illustrate with examples from the current press.14. What are the advantages and disadvantages for logistics practitioners operating within a single trade bloc?15. What are the advantages and disadvantages for logistics practitioners operating among multiple trade blocs?16. From a logistics perspective, what are the essential differences between NAFTA and the European Union?17. How will the newly developing trade blocs (such as the FTAA) affect logistics practice in the future?
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