Logistics Manageme

ntTABLE OF CONTENT.

* INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS

* ORIGIN AND DEFINITION

* MAIN LOGISTICS TARGETS

* LOGISTICS VIEWPOINT

* LOGISTICS FIELDS

* MILITARY LOGISTICS

* BUSINESS LOGISTICS

* PRODUCTION LOGISTICS

* LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

* WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND WAREHOUSE CONTROL SYSTEM

* SHIPPING AND LOGISTICS

* LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING

* THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS

* FOURTH-PARTY LOGISTICS

* EMERGENCE LOGISTICS

* AS A PROFESSION

* REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

Logistics can be defined as the management of flow of goods and services between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirement of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and often security. Logistics is a channel of 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, but is constantly changing. This can involve anything from consumer goods such as food, to IT materials, to aerospace and defense equipment.

ORIGIN AND DEFINITION OF LOGISTICS.

The term logistics comes from the Greek word LOGOS meaning ‘speech, reason, ratio, rationality, language, phase’, and more specifically from the Greek word LOGISTIKI, meaning accounting and financial organization. The word logistics has its origin in the French verb “LOGER” to lodge or to quarter. Its original use was to describe the science of movement, supplying and maintenance of military force in the field. Later on, used to describe the management of materials flow through an organization, from raw materials through, to finished goods.

Logistics is considered to have originated in the military’s need to supply themselves with arms, ammunitions and rations as they move from their base to forward position. In ancient Greek, Roman,...