LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Logistics Management

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Logistics Management

Introduction

The process of planning, implementing and monitoring effective and efficient flow and storage of goods, services and related information on the route from their place of origin to point of consumption in order to meet customer requirements. The essence of the process is to ensure the availability of necessary raw materials, components, products and services at each stage of the supply chain in the required amount at the right time, at an affordable price and suitable quality. If any of these conditions are not met, then all production in the best case would be uncompetitive, and at worst - will cease to exist (Tompkins & Harmelink, 1993).

The logistics concept is applied in enterprises characterized by playing an integral role in the activities that are related to flow assurance aimed at providing the customer with products and services required at the time that demand, with the quality required and the cost you are willing to pay. This focuses on making the coordination of the activities like Storage, Office, Provisioning, Shopping, Material economy, External transport, Internal Transport, Transport Inter-Distribution, Treatment and care orders, Recycling of waste and waste products by the customer, Production Planning, Production control, Information and communications, Quality control, Finance, Maintenance, Marketing, Sales, Environment in terms of ensuring the flow ensuring a high level of customer service and cost reduction.

This does not mean that management logistics management assume each of the above activities, it takes care of coordinating the variables of each to ensure solutions perform according to a rational flow and ensure a high level of customer service with low costs. The tendency is to seek increased autonomy of the links company executives together with the increased integration of the management of the entire logistics chain, which allows high responsiveness to customers, a high capacity for innovation and increasing the value of the products. The company must adopt for this purpose a management philosophy and a flat organizational unit or network that enables a consistent application of this concept organizational logistics (Ackerman, 1997).

The company's logistics system is characterized by maintaining an open character, or use of maintaining adequate relations with units of the environment that ensures through partnerships and outsourcing services and products to get high efficiency. The logistics system is characterized by a satisfactory dynamic balance that allows you to maintain permanent coordination of all elements from maintaining the subordination of the operation and organization of each of certain broad parameters of the system.

It should develop and implement a formal strategic plan for the development of logistics as a derivation and contribution to the strategic business plan, detailing the mission, vision, strategic objectives and programme of action to guide logistics management at all levels.

Are developed, monitored and implemented logistical plans through which it makes inventory planning, purchasing, product receptions, transportations, services of third parties receiving, distribution and customer service. Thus the logistics activity is no longer a function that performs its management to the emerging customer demand, production and other ...