Logistics

Traffic network is always a special role in the economy of any country in the world. Observing any traffic system can give a panoramic view of a country’s economy as well as its development level. Similar to the traffic network concept, logistics industry level could give a judge to the development of manufacturing and servicing industries.

Logistics as a business concept evolved only in the 1950s and now is familiar to the world but still something new to Vietnamese people. As the open policy enactment of Vietnamese government, the economy of itself has made an impressive rising. Then the boom of import – export was the sequence and the balance transportation problem is the challenge to all businesses. And logistics has come as an optimum solution.

According to Wikipedia, Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of consumers (frequently, and originally, military organizations). Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material-handling, and packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a channel of the supply chain which adds the value of time and place utility. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software.

The term "logistics" originates from the ancient Greek "λόγος" ("logos"—"ratio, word, calculation, reason, speech, oration"). Logistics is considered to have originated in the military's need to supply themselves with arms, ammunition and rations as they moved from their base to a forward position. In ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires, there were military officers with the title ‘Logistikas’ who were responsible for financial and supply distribution matters.

The Oxford English dictionary defines logistics as: “The branch of military science...