Friday, December 12, 2014

Guide To North American Logistics Company

By Claudine Hodges


A brief definition of logistic is "the right thing at the right time, in right place, in right quantities at minimal cost." This involves finding a balance between often incompatible objectives: firstly, cost minimization or low use of capital required, on other hand aims to maximize customer service. In a rapidly changing world, more and more companies that a good logistic management is an absolute requirement (North American logistics company).

It entails the integration of two or more activities in order to develop plans, implement and monitor an effective flow of raw materials, semi-finished and finished products, from their point of origin to point of consumption. These activities may include -without the list is limitative- the type of service offered to customers, demand forecasting, communications related to distribution, inventory control, materials handling, order processing, the after sales service and spare parts, purchasing.

In addition to packaging, processing of returned goods, negotiation or reuse of recoverable items or scrapped, the organization of transport and the actual carriage of goods, and warehousing and storage. While the adage stewardship follow often justified in post-war shortage economy the virtual absence of logistic concern, the increasing competitive pressure faced by contemporary markets (price competition but also non-price competition ) has greatly evolved.

Purchasing Logistic or supply logistic is an area of logistic and the coordination between the purchase and the other logistic. This includes the procurement of raw materials / semi-finished products and the transport of these goods. When a car manufacturer wants to produce a new type of car tires are needed. If the observation required for the tires.

However, it represents an additional expense in short term, for companies and individuals. To encourage them to feed these return flows, governments of some countries, like France, have already introduced taxes: ADEME tax (on packaging products, paid by businesses); environmental tax (on electrical goods, paid for by those who buy them).

The first major military campaign in ancient times was during the Persian Wars. The Persian king Xerxes I pulled in year 480 BC. With probably 100,000 soldiers to several Greek cities. Due to size of the army was supplying only through the water, because it was much more difficult on road at that time.

Therefore, the army marched along the coast accompanied by a fleet of warships and merchant ships. After a lost battle of Salamis, the Persian king had to withdraw because he was afraid that the compounds could be cut. A remainder of Persian army was defeated because, through the more difficult supply, were forced struggle to deliver an area unfavorable for them.

Logistic is organizing, planning, management and execution of flow of goods, and knowledge about it. This begins from the development and procurement of product, through production and distribution to end user, and aims to meet at optimum cost and use of capital to meet the needs of market. Also it includes the reversed flow of goods reverse logistic to logistic domain. There is a strong relationship with the concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM).




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