Thesis (DPhil (Logistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / South Africa currently experiences the double jeopardy problem of catching up to global economic competitiveness whilst at the same time feeling the pressures of sustainability management spearheaded by a global agenda. Global sustainability is defined as growth that is shared without depleting natural resources or damaging the environment. Academic disciplines are challenged to make a contribution and economics as such should contribute by providing the lead and lag indicators for the planning and measurement of scarce resources usuage. This integrative view includes economic sub-disciplines, such as logistics. This integrative view is an acknowledged part of the economics discipline, except that the macro-economic context of some sub-disciplines, such as logistics, often receives less attention during the course of academic activities. The distribution of resources and outputs in the economy is a logistics controlled cross-cutting factor, but suffers from a lack of macro-economic perspective, and lead and lag orientated measurement. This state of the affairs is a historic backlog of logistics and its specific position within economics. During the primary economic era the world began to configure networks and markets, which became more pronounced and settled with the dawn and settling of the industrial era. Logistics then was a “given” and did not receive much thought even as industrial, market economies developed. Transport was regarded as an administered cost, i.e. inefficiencies in logistics systems were evenly distributed between competitors, not giving any specific entity an advantage. With the advent of global competition and the diminishing returns on other cost saving measures, companies began to collaborate and integrate logistics functions within value chains, but the administered part of transport costs failed to receive the attention it required. In this way, global competitors did begin to experience disadvantages on a national level as whole economies suffered from inefficiencies in logistics and specifically transport systems.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:30:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ester Felix.pdf: 2231712 bytes, checksum: 0557a4cbaa0a2520b66ae1a3d4a89c81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-31 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The international logistics perform an important role in the global supply chain due to the strong worldwide competition. In this context, a study was carried based on the rationale thinking of international logistics management authors and World Class Logistics model, with the purpose of analyzing the impact of the international logistics cycle activities and the World Class Logistics model competencies on Exporter Flow time. The study was divided into two stages. The first stage, from exploratory nature, of qualitative type, had as its objective to study this phenomenon more deeply and to be familiar with the objective of it. Data was collected through detailed interviews with seven businessmen from Brazilian exporters companies, by maritime modal, from the following sectors: sugar, capital equipment, coffee, paper and wood, and orange juice, treated by content analysis. The information of this analysis through interviews showed that the most important measurement variables, in the international logistics management of each construct of Exporter Logistics Process Cycle were: ―Costs‖, the most mentioned, by 41,6% of exporters interviewed, followed by the following variables: Quality, with 17,6%, Agility, with 14,6% and Confiability, with 11,2%. With the results of the first phase we moved to the second phase, of descriptive nature, of quantitative type, in which the purpose was to identify the correlations among the Exporter Logistics Process Cycle, the World Class Logistics model and the Exporter Flow time. A semi structured survey was used to collect information which was applied to the exporters from the following sectors: sugar, capital equipment, coffee, paper and wood and soya, with the return of 56 surveys answered. Data obtained had been treated through descriptive and multivariate statistics, proved that the Exporter Logistics Process Cycle activities and the World Class Logistics competencies are important to the International Logistics even though they were not statiscally meaningful in the level (α ≤ 0,05) in order to reduce Expoter Flow time. Due to the results obtained, we can conclude the Exporter Logistics Process Cycle activities and World Class Logistics competencies, still need to be worked in order to cause an impact in the time reduction of the Exporter Flow. / A logística internacional desempenha um importante papel na cadeia de suprimentos global face à forte competição universal. Neste contexto, realizou-se um estudo fundamentado na linha de pensamento de autores da gestão logística internacional e do modelo de Logística de Classe Mundial, com o objetivo de analisar o impacto das atividades do Ciclo do Processo Logístico de Exportação e das competências logísticas do modelo de Logística de Classe Mundial no tempo do Fluxo de Exportação. O estudo foi dividido em duas etapas. A primeira etapa, de natureza exploratória, do tipo qualitativo, objetivou estudar o fenômeno com maior profundidade e obter familiaridade com o objeto de estudo. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade junto a sete executivos de empresas exportadoras brasileiras, via modal marítimo, dos setores de: açúcar, bens e capital mecânico, café, papel e celulose e suco de laranja, tratadas pela análise de conteúdo. As informações desta análise extraídas mediante entrevistas revelaram que, na gestão da logística internacional, as variáveis de desempenho mais importantes em cada constructo do Ciclo do Processo Logístico de Exportação, foram: ―Custos‖, como mais citada, por 41,6% exportadores entrevistados, seguido das seguintes variáveis: Qualidade com 17,6%, Agilidade com 14,6%, e Confiabilidade com 11,2%. De posse dos resultados da primeira etapa, prosseguiu-se para a segunda etapa, de natureza descritiva, do tipo quantitativo, em que se objetivou identificar as correlações entre o Ciclo do Processo Logístico de Exportação, o modelo de Logística de Classe Mundial e o tempo do Fluxo de Exportação. Para a coleta dos dados, utilizou-se um questionário semiestruturado que foi aplicado junto aos exportadores dos seguintes segmentos: açúcar, bens e capital mecânico, carne, café, papel e celulose e soja, obtendo-se retorno de 56 questionários. Os dados obtidos tratados por meio da estatística descritiva e multivariada, evidenciaram que as atividades do Ciclo do Processo Logístico de Exportação e as competências do modelo de Logística de Classe Mundial são importantes na logística internacional, apesar de, não terem sido estaticamente significantes em nível (α ≤ 0,05) para influir na redução do tempo do Fluxo de Exportação. Por conta dos resultados obtidos, pode-se concluir que as contribuições das atividades do Ciclo do Processo Logístico de Exportação e das competências do modelo de Classe Mundial para que possam impactar na redução do tempo do fluxo de exportação, ainda, necessitam ser trabalhadas.