UK LOGISTICS

United Kingdom Logistics Management

United Kingdom Logistics Management

Introduction:

Logistics is "all movement and storage to facilitate the flow of products from the point of purchase materials to the point of consumption, and information flows are in place, to give the consumer the level of service at a reasonable cost." Logistics management is part of the Supply chain management and it is used to deliver the goods from one destination to another destination. Logistics is an integral part of the Supply Chain Management process in which strategies are used for planning, implementations and monitoring the controls of efficient, effective flow and warehousing of the goods transported to the desired destination from the origin of the consignment. (Eddington, 2006, 5)

Logistics is the labour collective action aimed at ensuring the activities of design and management of material flows, and financial information from their sources to their destinations. In addition, implemented in a rational and coordinated with the objective of providing customer products and services in the quantity, quality, time, and place defendants with high competitiveness and ensuring the preservation of the environment. It is a discipline, which manages flows of matter, energy and information to a system that must provide the resources necessary to provide the service or deliver the product in the required amount, with the quality required the time required at low cost and social benefit of the community.

The logistics for this process is "shippers" more (time) critical and complex and their costs cover an increasing proportion of total cost of the products. This was resulted in essential changes in the world market relations and mutual positions of power between the companies that transport carrying one hand and manufacturing and trade companies other. The tasks, activities, and business related to freight and term 'supply chain management'. Logistics can be summaries with the term "supply chain management. The developments in this (box) region are largely escape the eye of the outsider, making it difficult consequences for the economy and the public to grasp. It is therefore important to whether the current freight policies are aligned with these developments. (Flint, 2005, 114)

Whatever the definition, big or small the department of logistics, market type, the type of business and computer packages created or new, there is an easy target, but concise, to the department and the supply chain: supply the necessary materials in the quantity, quality and time required at the lowest possible cost to thereby provide better customer service. Sometimes I wonder which of these four conditions is the most important, and my answer is always the same "All four are equally important. The absence of any of them affects the performance of the supply chain and, therefore, will affect customer service. The four conditions must be defined as Must's and not as Should's. In the correct definition and understanding of this chain by all members of the company will ensure the good performance of the supply chain of companies seeking to differentiate themselves and ...