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The prevalent view is that term logistics comes from the late 19th century: from French logistique (loger means to lodge). Others attribute a Greek origin to the word: λόγος, meaning reason or speech; λογιστικός, meaning accountant or responsible for counting. The Oxford English Dictionary defines logistics as "the branch of military science relating to procuring, maintaining and transporting material, personnel and facilities." However, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines logistics as ...
Date: 13.02.2014 By: admin Category: All, Basics
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Logistics is the management of the flow of resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet some requirements, for example, of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can include physical items, such as food, materials, animals, equipment and liquids, as well as abstract items, such as time, information, particles, and energy. The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of ...
Date: 13.02.2014 By: admin Category: All, Basics
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Given the services performed by logisticians, the main fields of logistics can be broken down as follows: - Procurement logistics - Production logistics - Distribution logistics - After-sales logistics - Disposal logistics - Reverse logistics - Green logistics - Global logistics - Domestics logistics - Concierge Service - RAM logistics Procurement logistics consists of activities such as market research, requirements planning, make-or-buy decisions, supplier management, ordering, and order controlling. The targets in procurement logistics might be contradictory: maximizing efficiency by concentrating on ...
Date: 13.02.2014 By: admin Category: All, Fields
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In military science, maintaining one's supply lines while disrupting those of the enemy is a crucial—some would say the most crucial—element of military strategy, since an armed force without resources and transportation is defenseless. The defeat of the British in the American War of Independence and the defeat of the Axis in the African theater of World War II are attributed by some scholars to logistical failures. The historical leaders ...
Date: 01.02.2014 By: admin Category: All, Fields
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One definition of business logistics speaks of "having the right item in the right quantity at the right time at the right place for the right price in the right condition to the right customer". Business logistics incorporates all industry sectors and aims to manage the fruition of project life cycles, supply chains, and resultant efficiencies. The term business logistics has evolved since the 1960s due to the increasing complexity of ...
Date: 01.02.2014 By: admin Category: All, Fields
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Similarly to production systems, logistic systems need to properly configured and managed. Actually a number of methodologies have been directly borrowed from operations management such as using Economic Order Quantity models for managing inventory in the nodes of the network. Distribution resource planning (DRP) is similar to MRP, except that it doesn't concern activities inside the nodes of the network but planning distribution when moving goods through the links of ...
Date: 17.01.2014 By: admin Category: All, Managment
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The term production logistics describes logistic processes within an industry. Production logistics aims to ensure that each machine and workstation receives the right product in the right quantity and quality at the right time. The concern is not the transportation itself, but to streamline and control the flow through value-adding processes and to eliminate non–value-adding processes. Production logistics can operate in existing as well as new plants. Manufacturing in an ...
Date: 16.01.2014 By: admin Category: All, Managment
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Logistics management is that part of the supply chain that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer requirements. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a logistician. Materials management Channel management Distribution (or physical distribution) Supply-chain management The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport ...
Date: 15.01.2014 By: admin Category: All, Managment
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