the xbox story. just bought an xbox or about to buy one? have you ever wondered who is involved...
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The Xbox Story
Just bought an Xbox or about to buy one?
Have you ever wondered who is involved and how the Xbox gets to you?
Quite simply it moves through what is called a “supply chain”
The Xbox Supply Chain
They are all part of Transport and Logistics Industry
There are lots of interesting jobs in the supply chain
Sea
Services to
Freight
Rail Air
They are all part of Transport and Logistics industry !
Road
A lot of different things have to be done: By a lot of different people Doing different jobs With all the different parts of the Xbox being
made and put together and checked to make sure nothing has been left out
And the Xbox has to be packed - so it doesn’t get broken when it is moved by trucks, trains, ships or aeroplanes
What happens to get the Xbox to you?
Moving Your Xbox
The ‘supply chain’ is the name we use for all the things that get done by lots of people make the Xbox and
Get it to the shops and to you. So all you have to do when you get the Xbox
home is to unpack it, plug it in and play games to the ‘Max”
What is a supply chain?
How do metal and plastic become an
Xbox? ?
Step 1: Raw Materials: Getting raw materials processed and turning them into something that can be used by factories to make into parts for the Xbox
Step 2: Making the parts in factories needed to go into an Xbox
Step 3: At the Xbox factory putting the parts together to make the Xbox
The Key Xbox Supply Chain Steps
Step 4: Packing, labelling and sending the Xbox to Australia
Step 5: Receiving, storing, sorting and sending the Xbox to shops or your home
All of the 5 steps involve transport to move the raw materials to the factories and from there to Australia and to the shop or your home
The Key Xbox Supply Chain Steps
Raw materials are natural resources such as oil, iron ore, wood.
We get the raw materials and make them into things that we can send to factories where they are made into parts or finished goods that we can use straight away.
For example a raw material like iron ore is mined and made or processed into steel wire.
The wire then gets sent to a factory where it can be made into screws that are needed to make the Xbox
What are Raw Materials and how are they processed and used?
Step 1
Who knows the name of a product that is made into something from a raw material but needs more done to it before it becomes a part for an Xbox?
What about copper coils, gold bars, or logs? These have to be moved to the parts
factories
What Raw Materials are Made Into
Gold plated contacts and connectors are an essential part of modern electronics in
everything from computers to television(Credit: World Gold Council)
Using Gold – Raw Material to Xbox Parts
The Xbox needs lots of different parts and these are made in a lot of different factories
Processed raw materials are used to make the parts
About 250 factories (suppliers) make the parts needed to make the Xbox
The Xbox 360 contains around 1,700 different parts
Once the parts are made they need to be moved to the Xbox factory
Making The X Box Parts Step 2
After the parts are made they need to be packed and labelled and made ready for pick up by a truck
The truck picks up the parts and takes it to the Xbox factory
Where the factory is a long way away other types of transport might also be used: like ships, trains or planes
Moving the Parts to the Xbox Factory
Parts needed to make the Xbox are delivered to the factory by truck, unloaded, checked and kept in a place ready for use
As the parts are needed they are moved to the place where the Xbox is put together – usually called the ‘assembly line’
At the Xbox Factory Step 3
As the Xbox comes off the assembly line it is labelled, checked and then packed into its box
The boxes are put on a pallet that is moved by forklift to the warehouse and stored in a pallet rack
At the Xbox Factory
The Xbox is kept in the warehouse until it is ready to be picked up and sent to Australia
Each Xbox has to be barcoded, labelled and the address of where it is going to put on the Xbox
Sending The Xbox to AustraliaStep 4
The Xbox is packed into a shipping container at the factory and sent to the container terminal by road and/or rail in time to be loaded on to the plane or ship
The Xbox warehouse tells the transport companyo when it needs to pick up the Xboxo where it needs to go too when it has to arrive
Getting the Xbox to Australia
From Factory To Ship
As the Xbox comes by ship from China it has a long way to travel to Australia
Before it can leave the port or airport in Australia the Xbox has to be checked by Customs and Health (Quarantine) to make sure it is what it says it is and nothing bad is hidden in it and it isn’t bringing in anything that might hurt people, animals and plants
What Happens When it arrives in Australia? Step 5
When it is unloaded from the ship in Australia it goes by truck to a warehouse before being sent on to the shop or your home. This warehouse is often called a distribution centre
What Happens When it arrives in Australia?
When you go into a shop to buy an Xbox it is usually there so that you can pay for it and take it straight home
As it can take sometime for an Xbox to get from China to Australia the company that makes the Xbox sends enough of them so that stores don’t run out of them
These Xboxes are kept in a warehouse distribution centre and supplied to shops as they need them
At the Australian Warehouse Distribution Centre
Some of the big stores have their own warehouses and distribution centres
They get the Xbox delivered to them and then send them out to their shops all around Australia
They can also send the Xbox direct to your home
Nearly all Xboxes delivered this way are sent by road
Let’s look at the Xbox Supply Chain again
Getting the Xbox to the Store
Supply chain overview
Retailer
Distributor
Customers Transport
Raw materials
Supplier Manufacturer
Packaging manufacturer
What Sort of Places Do People in the Xbox Supply Chain Work?
Can you name them Some of Them?
Places people work include mines, processing plants, factories, warehouses and
transport depots on aircraft, loading and unloading planes and at airports on ships, loading and unloading ships, and at ports on trucks and trains and in their depots, loading and
unloading trucks and trains on computers and in offices at Customs and Quarantine offices and at ports and
airports inspecting cargo in games shops and other stores
Places People Work in the Xbox Supply Chain
There are lots of different jobs in freight transport
Truck Driver or Train Driver Forklift Driver Warehouse worker
Jobs in Freight
Supply Chain Managers Computer Operator Aircraft Pilot Air cargo worker Ships Captain Sailor Crane Driver Waterfront worker
More Jobs
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