Chapter 1 Tasks and Aspects of Modern Logistics

Question 1

Must provide the right quantities of goods most efficiently at the right place in the right order within the right time.

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LOGISTIC

Question 2

are to execute orders and to fulfill the requirements of consumers and companies at lowest cost with adequate quality.

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LOGISTIC MANAGEMENT

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Are physical goods such as raw materials preliminary products, unfinished and finished goods, packages, parcels and containers and discarded goods. Also animals and and even people can be logistic objects, which need special care and service.

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OBJECTS OF LOGISTICS

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THE SOURCES AND THE FINAL SINKS

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*Supplier or Senders
*Destinations or Receivers

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Are plants, factories, storages and warehouses of producers, wholesalers, logistic service providers.

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Supplier or Senders

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Are the departments stores, markets and sales outlets of retailers and the points of consumption.

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Destinations or Receivers

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Is a set of elements connected by certain relations.

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SYSTEM

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Are systems where the elements are stations, and the relations are material of information flows between these elements.

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NETWORKS

Question 9

Is a generalization of the term machine system. The function of PH are determined by the requirements.

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PERFORMANCE SYSTEM

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Executes production orders. It processes, transforms, handles and moves physical objects by a certain technique.

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MACHINE SYSTEM

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Defines only the output and allows a variety of solutions. The methods technology, structures and processes remain open.

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RESULT SPECIFICATION

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Determined processes and method, thereby, limiting the number of possibilities and solutions.

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FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION

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Prescribes materials, elements, and structure of the system in addition to methods and processes.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

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It is to ensure the efficient supply of consumers, companies and state with goods to organized the traffic flows between sources and destinations within a region, a country and around the globe.

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MACROLOGISTICS

Question 15

It refers to the search for the maximum optimization of internal logistical processes in a company.

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MICROLOGISTICS

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THE OUTPUT OF A PERFORMANCE PROCESS CAN BE

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*Tangible outputs
*Intangible outputs

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The physical of objects such as material, buildings, industrial, products, consumer goods or in general products that result from an extraction, production, manufacture, refinement, machining, assembling or filling process.

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Tangible outputs

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Are the results or a transformation of space, time or transformation of physical and or immaterial objects, such as rearranging, stacking, packing, coding, handling, transport or storing.

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Intangible outputs

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Can only execute one kind of process

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MONOFUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE STATIONS

Question 20

Can execute several different process in parallel or in sequence.

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MULTIFUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE STATIONS

Question 21

Consist of parallel or serially arranged elementary stations. They can execute different processes simultaneously.

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COMBINED STATIONS

Question 22

Physical objects are produced, process, transformed, stored, moved or handled.

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OPERATIVE STATIONS

Question 23

Orders data or information are produced, processed, stored or transmitted.

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ADMINISTRATIVE STATIONS

Question 24

It has only direct connections by unbroken transports between sources and sinks.

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SINGLE STAGE NETWORKS

Question 25

Sources and sinks are separated by intermediate station.

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TWO STAGE NETWORKS

Question 26

The connection between the sources and sinks in a three-stage network and twice broken.

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THREE STAGE NETWORKS

Question 27

The connection between sources and sinks is broken more than twice.

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MULTISTAGE NETWORKS

Question 28

It offers a wide range of services and consolidates procurement and distribution flows in order to reduce handling and transports costs.

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LOGISTIC CENTER

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Consists of several buildings or handling places surrounded by traffic areas and directly connected to external roads, railway, waterways, or airports.

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OPEN LOGISTIC CENTER

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Is made of performance stations and functional modules located in a separate building or site.

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CONFINED LOGISTIC CENTER

Question 31

Is a sequence of operative stations passed by material objects.

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LOGISTIC CHAIN

Question 32

Is a sequence of stations passed by data or information.

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INFORMATION CHAIN

Question 33

Is a sequence of administrative and operative stations passed first by orders and later by the general objects.

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ORDER CHAIN

Question 34

The consolidated shipment of many small procurement orders in large load quantities via a logistic center reduces the costs of the suppliers.

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PROCUREMENT CONSOLODATION