Electronics Manufacturing And E-Waste Management: Robert Bosch Logistics Design
Research Objectives
The electronics manufacturing help in designing, manufacturing, testing, distributing and finally providing the repair or return services for the electronic components and also for assembling the original requirements (Dekker et al. 2013). Robert Bosch is the leading multinational electronics and engineering company that has its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. The major operating areas of Robert Bosch are eventually spread in four business sectors like mobility solution, consumer good, industrial technologies and energy or building technologies (Bosona and Gebresenbet 2013). The electronic waste or e waste management is one of the most important and significant problems for all electronics companies. These electronic wastes could be described as the discarded electronics and electrical devices. The informal processing of the electronic wastes is responsible for leading to adverse human health effects as well as environmental pollution. The electronics waste management is quite popular for the organization of Robert Bosch (Schönsleben 2016). They properly manage their electronic wastes and hence the hazards are ceased subsequently.
The following project report outlines a brief description about electronics manufacturing and management of electronics waste for the popular and leading organization of Robert Bosch. The main objectives of this project report are to manage the logistics of this organization, including the raw materials, several modules, consumers and many others. This report provides secondary data methodology for analyzing the data of this organization. The various features of the test results will also be given here. All the testing results will also be discussed here in respect to the objectives of the project report. Moreover, the report even explains the testing procedure of this project.
The various research objectives of this project report of Electronics Manufacturing and E Waste Management for Robert Bosch are given below:
i) To identify the issues related to logistics management in the organization of Robert Bosch.
ii) To manage the issues of logistics department in Robert Bosch organization.
iii) To properly manage the electronics waste within this organization of Robert Bosch.
iv) To select a proper methodology to execute the project and compare the test results of this project report.
The proper management of electronics wastes is one of the major criteria for all types of electronics manufacturing company (Zhang et al. 2013). The reusability, re selling, salvaging, recycling and disposal of the electronics waste should be properly done in all organizations. Robert Bosch, being one of the leading companies of electronics manufacturing, has to manage their electronics wastes for eradicating the various complexities. According to Christopher 2016, they have to manage their logistics for raw materials and several other details. Methodology is required for undergoing this project work of logistics management in Robert Bosch. This type methodology is the theoretical and systematic analysis of several methods for applying them to gain desired results. Bing et al. 2016 stated that, this research methodology does not indicate the tools and techniques for information gathering, but also in considering the concepts and theories required for understanding these methods.
Methodology
Two types of methodologies are possible for any project, which are primary and secondary methodologies (R. Huscroft et al. 2013). The primary data are that information that could be collected by several methods such as questionnaires, surveys and interviews. Moreover the operational features of the domain are also researched for collecting this type of data. The collected data is taken into consideration with this process for checking that whether it is valid or not. As per Heaslip 2013, although, the reliability of primary data is extremely high, since they are collected by reliable sources; the overall time consumption and complexities are more.
The secondary research data are referred to as the data that is being collected for any other purpose and at the separate time span (Yu et al. 2016). Two types of secondary data are present, which are internal and external. The internal or the in house data could be acquired in the company, where the research could be carried out. On the other hand, the external secondary data could be obtained from the outside sources. According to Mousazadeh, Torabi and Pishvaee 2014, the scholarly articles like journals as well as the research papers and the details of Robert Bosch from their annual reports are considered as the most reliable and trustworthy sources in this project report.
The selected methodology for this project report of Robert Bosch is secondary data methodology (Winter and Knemeyer 2013). The data analysis methodology helps in the collection of information from various sources for getting them transformed and inspected to useful data. Two techniques of data analysis are present, known as quantitative and qualitative data analyses. Selviaridis and Norrman 2015 stated that the methodology selected in this case of logistics management in Robert Bosch organization is qualitative data analysis technique.
The secondary data methodology could be extremely efficient and effective for solving the issues in Robert Bosch (Bosona and Gebresenbet 2013). The most significant features of the test results within this Robert Bosch organization after the successful implementation of the secondary data methodology are given below:
i) After the proper implementation of the secondary data methodology for the organization the logistics management in Robert Bosch Company, it is expected that the various issues related to raw material management will be resolved (Bing et al. 2016). This is the main component of the supply chain management, which would be required for meeting the several demands of the customers either by planning, controlling and implementation. Since, this is an electronics company; the raw materials should be managed properly, so that there is no issue regarding the product making. According to Mousazadeh, Torabi and Pishvaee 2014, since, the electronic wastes are to be managed properly, it is important for them to select their raw materials perfectly.
Description and Justification of the Selected Methodology
ii) Regarding the customers of this organization, logistics management is another significant factor for Robert Bosch (Winter and Knemeyer 2013). With the implementation of qualitative data analysis, the various issues related to the complexity of customers’ management as well as the customers’ satisfaction would be easily eradicated.
iii) The distribution of their products will also be benefitted with the proper involvement of the technique of qualitative data analysis (Selviaridis and Norrman 2015). This would be effective for identifying the issues related to product distribution to a better extent.
The above mentioned important and significant features clearly define the issues related to management of logistics within the organization of Robert Bosch should be properly mitigated for avoiding any type of complexity.
As per the objectives, the issues were to be identified and with the proper implementation of qualitative data analysis technique and utilization of secondary data methodology, these issues could be eradicated easily (Heaslip 2013). Moreover, the management of the various issues related to the logistics department is also effective with this particular technique. Mousazadeh, Torabi and Pishvaee 2014, commented in their book that they would be able to deal with their problems easily by involving data analysis technique.
As per Schönsleben 2016, the entire testing process within the project of logistics management for Robert Bosch is done by implementing the qualitative data analysis. There are three steps in this technique, which are utilization of items and the proper development of the codes, underlying the pattern identification and finally summarization of data (Bosona and Gebresenbet 2013). After the proper execution of all these three steps, the process is being executed properly for completing the project of logistics management in Robert Bosch.
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