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What is logistics process
of planning, implementing, and controlling
the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods,
services, and related information
from point of origin to point of consumption
for the purpose of conforming to customer
requirements.
What is logistics Note that this definition includes
inbound,
outbound, internal, and external movements, and
return of materials for environmental purposes.
What is logistics?
Meeting customer needs
by ensuring the
availability of the right benefits for the right
customer, in the quality and condition desired by
that customer, at the time and place the
customer wants them, all for a price the buyer is
willing to pay.
What is logistics? Logistics management seeks
optimise the
flows of materials and supplies through the
organisation and its operations to the customer.
What is logistics? personnel and material.
The procurement, maintenance, distribution, and
replacement
What is logistics? Benefits
Benefits are in the form of a tangible product
that must be manufactured and moved to the
(final) user;
Components of a logistics system
- Customer service,
- Inventory management,
- Transportation,
- Storage and material handling,
- Packing,
- Information processing,
- Demand forecasting,
- Production planning,
- Purchasing,
- Facility location.
Components of a logistics system
Transportation:
Physical movement of the goods from a point of
origin to a point of consumption and can involve raw
materials being brought into the production process
and/or finished goods being shipped out to the
customer.
Components of a logistics system
Information processing:
Links all areas of the logistics system together,
Firms are now linking their internal logistics
information systems with those of their vendors
and customers.
Trends in the field of logistics
Global trade and transport,
Economic development (and crisis),
Increasing energy (fuel) costs,
Influence and importance of innovative
technologies and services (Internet, mobile
solutions, ITS,…),
Ecology and sustainability (increased demand for
intelligent concepts to reduce carbon emissions),
Multimodal and intermodal transport
logistics
Compared to mono-modal transport (e.g. road
transport only) the integration of more than one
transport mode leads to a synthesis of a more
complex transport-logistics system.
Also rail, Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) and
maritime transport can become part of transportlogistics
processes,
either used for the main haulage only
or, where possible for the entire transport chain.
Alternatives: 1) Multimodal transport, 2)
Intermodal transport and 3) Combined Transport.
Multimodal and intermodal transport logistics
MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT:
Carriage of goods by
two or more modes of transport.
Multimodal and intermodal transport logistics
INTERMODAL TRANSPORT:
: The movement of
goods in one and the same loading unit or road
vehicle, which uses successively two or more
modes of transport without handling the goods
themselves in changing modes.
Multimodal and intermodal transport logistics
COMBINED TRANSPORT:
Intermodal transport
where the major part of the European journey is
by rail, inland waterways or sea and any initial
and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as
possible.
eLogistics
E-logistics simply means processes necessary to
transfer the goods sold over the Internet to the
customers (…).
E-logistics is wide-ranging topic related to supply chain
integration that has effect of eliminating
intermediaries (such as wholesaler or retailers) and
also fosters the emergence of new players like
logisticians (…).
E-logistics is defined to be the mechanism of
automating logistics processes and providing an
integrated, end-to-end fulfillment and supply chain
management services to the players of logistics
processes.
