Through more than one week of plant tours and culture visits, we have already been familiar with how warehouses work and had basic understanding of Japanese culture. Today is our last day of plant tour in Japan. We will visit Kobe custom, port of Kobe and two warehouses. Because of final tour in the trip, I pay more attention to today’s plant visits so that I can grasp every point and detail from tour guide.
After spending long time on the way, we arrive in Kobe Custom, where it's our first destination today. As I known before, custom serves was a key government department to monitor international trade and prevent illegal exports and imports. In China, customs are rarely open to the public, so this is my first time to visit the customs. In the beginning, we watch the video in a multi-media room so that we can have basic understanding of Kobe customs which was divided into 4 parts: coordination, customs clearance, investigation, and enforcement. Taxation of goods and custom clearance are most important tasks for Kobe customs. The tour guide told us that there are different policies of taxation on products in order to control amount of imported and exported goods. For example, rice has the highest tariff which is 6000% of its original price. In addition, custom also prohibit contraband goods like drugs and guns, and counterfeit brand-name products. In gallery, we are taught how to differentiate fake and real goods. One of staff in custom told me that real goods usually are heavier than fake one, which is an easiest way to recognize the goods.
The most impressive part of today was the plant tour in Nissan where it's near the port of Kobe. It is really astonishing to me how efficient inventory management of Toy R us is. By scanning bar code, products are automatically stored in certain racks through continuous flow line.
The process from receiving, putting away and storing is done in short time. Viewing how products automatically store in racks made me feel like i was in a movie . It is unbelievable. By talking with Dr. Ross and director of warehouse, the most important point I learn here is how different partner in supply chain works together and benefit from each other corporations. In this case, Toy R us has three partners in its supply chain which are warehouse provider, equipment provider and shipping company. The corporation with their partner help Toy R us to manage its inventory efficiently.
After spending long time on the way, we arrive in Kobe Custom, where it's our first destination today. As I known before, custom serves was a key government department to monitor international trade and prevent illegal exports and imports. In China, customs are rarely open to the public, so this is my first time to visit the customs. In the beginning, we watch the video in a multi-media room so that we can have basic understanding of Kobe customs which was divided into 4 parts: coordination, customs clearance, investigation, and enforcement. Taxation of goods and custom clearance are most important tasks for Kobe customs. The tour guide told us that there are different policies of taxation on products in order to control amount of imported and exported goods. For example, rice has the highest tariff which is 6000% of its original price. In addition, custom also prohibit contraband goods like drugs and guns, and counterfeit brand-name products. In gallery, we are taught how to differentiate fake and real goods. One of staff in custom told me that real goods usually are heavier than fake one, which is an easiest way to recognize the goods.
After lunch, we head to the port of Kobe and the board a ship. The boat tour was really exciting for me and we had a meeting in a comfortable reference room, which is my first time to have a meeting on a ship. Port of Kobe is distribution base of Japan, which provides port facility such as berths and public ware house around the port. Some of the super-large cargo shipment depart are parking along with harbor. We 
can view massive crane on port, which move containers from cargo ships to harbor. All of cranes are made in Shanghai and there are many containers from China, which reflect close relationship of international trade between Japan and China with globalization. Because of financial crisis, there still a lot of cargo ships parking along harbor because of international trade tend to decrease. The most different thing I saw in the port of Kobe is that most of the islands around the port was artificial. Obviously, Japan lacked some of the resource and land, but they use limited resource to create second gross domestic production in the world. Advanced supply chain management help Japanese companies to reduce their logistic cost, labor cost and also allow them to save resources.
can view massive crane on port, which move containers from cargo ships to harbor. All of cranes are made in Shanghai and there are many containers from China, which reflect close relationship of international trade between Japan and China with globalization. Because of financial crisis, there still a lot of cargo ships parking along harbor because of international trade tend to decrease. The most different thing I saw in the port of Kobe is that most of the islands around the port was artificial. Obviously, Japan lacked some of the resource and land, but they use limited resource to create second gross domestic production in the world. Advanced supply chain management help Japanese companies to reduce their logistic cost, labor cost and also allow them to save resources. The most impressive part of today was the plant tour in Nissan where it's near the port of Kobe. It is really astonishing to me how efficient inventory management of Toy R us is. By scanning bar code, products are automatically stored in certain racks through continuous flow line.
The process from receiving, putting away and storing is done in short time. Viewing how products automatically store in racks made me feel like i was in a movie 
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