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6.Extensive use of RFID can help retailing companies lower their T/F labour costs as well as inventory losses.

7.According to Metro officials, RFID technology may reduce operating T/F costs and provide customers with more satisfactory shoplifting experience.

8.RFID tags in smart-shelf application identify the location of the T/F product.

9. Robots with installed PDAs restock the shelves when tagged items are T/F removed from them by customers.

10.Warehousing is the only sphere where RFID can be used T/F

effectively.

11.Some refrigerators can know the difference between valid T/F products and those with expired use-by date.

12.Many IT companies have started common projects with Metro T/F

at Neuss.

Ex. 3 Translate from Russian into English

1.Сигнал от новейшей «умной» радиометки информирует персонал об изменении уровня запасов

2.Metro имеет на сегодняшний день 25 оптовых баз, использующих технологию радио-идентификации

3.Компания начала применять радиометки на отдельных ящиках продукции

4.Радиометки еще не скоро станут реальной альтернативой штрих-кодам

5.Когда покупатели забирают помеченные продукты, в электронную систему управления запасами посылаются сигналы

Ex. 4 What do these numbers and dates refer to in the article?

Ex. 5 Match these words and phrases from the article (1-7) with their meanings (a-g).

Ex. 6 Find words in the article that follow these nouns to make noun-noun partnerships.

1RFID

2inventory

3innovation

4shopping

5logistics/warehousing/retail

6technology

Ex. 7 Use word partnerships from Exercise 6 to complete these sentences.

Ex. 8 Decide which verb does not go with the nouns or noun phrases in bold.

Ex. 9 Find adjectives in the article which fit these meanings.

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1high-tech and modern: s_____________

2traditional: c_______________

3final: u_______________

4single: i______________

5a number of: c__________

6workable: v_________

7very big: h__________

8new and original: i______________

Ex. 10 Use the prepositions in the box to complete these sentences.

at for in in of on out since to to with

1.Metro has been introducing RFID technology _______ stages _______ 2003.

2.RFID tags are now attached ____ pallets and also used ____ individual cases of products.

3.The price____ tags is still too high to make them a real alternative ____ bar codes.

Centre ____ Neuss.

Ex. 11 Listen to the dialogue “Describing Brisk and Slow Business” and commentaries coming after it. Give English definitions to the words and expressions in bold print. Learn the dialogue by heart and dramatize it with another student in class.

Clint: Anya! Long time no see. Let me buy you a drink. I’m celebrating.Anya: Oh, yeah? What’s the good news?

Clint: My company has had a banner month. Since we launched our new line of software, we’re having trouble keeping up with demand. Every product is flying off the shelves.

Anya: Wow, that’s great news. Everybody I talk to is singing a different tune.

Foot traffic is down and business is slow – really slow.

Clint: That’s too bad. I thought that Yao’s company was doing brisk business. Six months ago, he was selling a line of cell phones that was all the rage, and customers were beating down his door to get one.

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Anya: That was six months ago. It’s a different story now. Those cell phones are now considered passé, and he has inventory he can’t unload. You know how fickle the market is.

Clint: I’m sorry to hear that. How about you? How’s the travel business?

Anya: Why do you think I’m sitting here crying in my beer? Pull up a chair and I’ll tell you my sob story.

(From ESL Podcast 568)

Ex. 12 Questions for discussion

1. What are current and potential RFID applications in one of these sectors (or a sector of your choice):

manufacturing, e.g. tracking work in progress

retail, e.g. reducing stock-outs

distribution and logistics, e.g. reducing lost inventory?

2.What are the benefits and limitations of barcode and RFID technology for logistics, warehousing and retail operations?

3.How could RFID help ‘Montomar’ company in the following case?

Montomar produces flash memory cards and drives for electronics retailers. Its warehouse operators need to be able track shipments to their main customer's two distribution centres more efficiently. Orders from this customer fluctuate, but they need to be able to handle up to a 100 orders a day, with shipments of up to 250,000 items. Merchandise is taking too long to leave the warehouse-the target is two to four days. Mistakes also happen during the boxing and loading of orders onto pallets.

Unit 16 Reducing a company’s carbon footprint

How Jaguar Land Rover reduced its carbon footprint

by Rod Newing

In 2003, Jaguar Land Rover did not know the carbon footprint of its supply chain. Now it has been measured, reduction targets have been set, measures are being taken, and the results are being monitored.

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‘Our total supply-chain carbon footprint in January 2008 was 186,076 tonnes a year,’ says Kevin Wall, the company’s Material, Planning and Logistics Director. ‘We are on target to reduce this by more than 2,000 tonnes year on year and we have a 10-year plan to eliminate 90m road miles.’

Jaguar Cars is one of the world’s premier makers of luxury cars, and Land Rover’s four-wheel drive vehicles are world famous. Together, the two companies, which were acquired by Tata Motors from Ford Motor in 2008, manufacture 290,000 vehicles a year in the UK.

In 2003, Jaguar Land Rover set up an integrated Europe-wide supply chain to collect components from 380 suppliers based in me UK and Europe. The aim was to maximise the full capacity of a trailer by consolidating five or six suppliers in a similar geographical area. This has reduced average road miles per week from 59,280 to 30,780, a 52-per-cent saving.

Although created to reduce costs, it has also eliminated CO2 emissions of 1,772 tonnes a year. The third-party logistics contract has just been rebid, and nextgeneration truck engines were specified, to reduce emissions and improve economy by 10-12 percent.

‘Ten years ago, our supplier base was mainly in the UK, but now it is truly global,’ says Mr Wall. ‘You can’t look at the purchase price any more, you have to look at the total landed cost, including freight, packaging, customs and the cost of returning any unique containers. It is difficult to calculate, but we have used this basis for several years, and it takes into account both the financial and environmental implications of global sourcing.’

The company has been trying to switch vehicle delivery from road to trains. Finished vehicles for the US, Australia and Japan go to Southampton by rail. This has eliminated 777,925 road miles a year, equating to 1,188 tonnes of CO2.

From Southampton, vehicles are transported by Wallenius Wilhelmsen ships. In partnership, the two organisations have optimised fleet utilisation, streamlined routes and run vessels - where possible - at more economical speeds. Most significantly, instead of normal bunker fuel, the company pays extra for the ships to use lowsulphur fuel, which contains 1.3 percent of the mineral, compared with an International Maritime Organisation target of 4.5 percent. Between 2001 and 2007, this low-sulphur fuel saved 98,500 tonnes of sulphur dioxide emissions, a reduction of 43 per cent, and has cut CO2 emissions by 17 per cent.

Future projects include reviewing vessel steaming speeds. A two-knot reduction saves 244kg of CO2 per transported unit, 21 per cent less than present.

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JLR is also exploring Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s Orcelle project for a lightweight, environmentally sound ship that can carry 10,000 cars. Using solar, wind and wave power, it does not release any emissions into the atmosphere or the ocean.

Ex. 1 Translate the article above using the vocabulary and comments

4.More than 300 British and European companies provide spare parts for T/F

JLR.

5.Carriage capacity of a trailer could be considerably increased by T/F gathering together consignments from 5-6 component manufacturers.

6.52% average road mile saving could be achieved just by maximizing T/F trailer carriage capacity.

7.JLR still employs its own logistics department for managing a Europe- T/F wide supply chain.

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8.Total landed cost is the same as CIF-cost (cost, insurance, freight), and T/F both take no account of environmental implications of global sourcing.

9.US-bound finished vehicles from JLR still have to run on their own T/F wheels from the assembly plant to the port in Southampton.

10. The transporting routes from Southampton to the US and T/F Australia need not to be changed.

11.International Maritime Organisation allowed in 2007 for bunker T/F fuel to contain less than 1,5% of sulphur.

12.Changing steaming speeds of vessels does not influence cost- T/F effectiveness of transportation and has nothing to do with ecology.

Ex. 3 Translate from Russian into English

1.Нашей целью является сокращение углеродного следа на 2000 тон в годовом исчислении.

2.Объединенная компания JLR производит машины класса «люкс» и всемирно известные внедорожники.

3.Нас интересует сейчас не столько цена покупки комплектующих, сколько полная стоимость разгруженного и растаможенного товара с учетом экологических последствий.

4.Две организации оптимизировали использование флота, доработали маршруты, и договорились об использовании наиболее экономных скоростей.

5.Сокращение скорости хода на 2 узла приводит к исключению выброса 244 кг углекислого газа в пересчете на перевозимую единицу.

Ex. 4 Find words and phrases in the article which match these meanings.

1 are likely to reach the result they are aiming for: a__ ___ ____ _________

2planned and implemented a new system: s____ ___

3explained in an exact and detailed way: s_____________

4possible results of a plan or an action: i______________

5improved to make simpler or more efficient: s_____________

6examining something to decide if changes need to be made: r____________

7weighing very little: l_______________

8good for the environment: e_____________ _______

Ex. 5 Use words and phrases from Exercise 4 in the correct form to complete these sentences.

1.A few years ago, JLR ______ _______ an integrated Europe-wide supply

chain.

2.Global sourcing has financial and environmental __________ which were not considered when the process first started.

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