what is the importance ofThe logistics process at any level ?
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logistics in what respect?  As in shipping products from a wholesaler to a retailer(short)?  Or the organization of a prject or operation?  What exactly are you looking for?  \n\nEdit:  Without well-managed logistics you run the risk of internal problems as well as problems from a customer base that you may or may not have, which in turn could cause even more problems.  Good logistics helps a company to achieve the goals they are trying to achieve in the most efficient manner possible.  If the logistics of your company are not handled properly, then you could end up facing problems from every angle.
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communication and transportation\nare very important to the economy.\n\nwith the coming of many high technological advancements\ncelphones, cars, railroad, ships, airplanes were built; that grately contribute to the otherwise long ago more time consuming, stressful, prone to misunderstanding type of caravan, or any other trade routes kind of business transactins/shipments.\n\nTraffic lights, to lessen traffic, to bring about order, in a society that needs, that yearns, that only understands, order, ergo to rely upon civilization for a promise of a future generation.\n\nRailroads, my friend, are for better shipments. In this world of capitalization, open market, and unfair circumstances. There are still those places that can't be reached by airplanes or don't exactly have roads but bumpy extremely bumpy pebbled version of a road; but only have railroads as the wisest and fastest form of transfering business commodities.  You know what they say, "the faster the better."
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There are several benefits here:\n1. Buffer stock (otherwise known as safety stock) allows a "buffer" for QC errors and logistical delays.\n2. With QC errors, if an order comes in with Quality problems, the safety stock is there to allow production to move on without delay.\n3. with logistical delays, the safety stock is there to allow production to continue while still waiting for the next order to arrive and be put into the production stream.\n\nBottom line: It's your lifeline as a precaution...just in case someone or something gets screwed up.
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All important, and not important at all.\n\nI know that sounds confusing. Let me explain.\n\nPoor products and/or service can (but not necessarily) sink a food service operation. However, great products and service do not make an operation. By themselves, they are worthless. By having great products and service, you only meet the minimum expectations of your customer. Great products and service do not set you apart from your competition. They will not make you successful by themselves, but they can ruin you if you don't have them.\n\nThe most important factor to succeeding in the hospitality industry, as in any industry, is having a Unique Selling Point (USP). A USP is that ONE THING that sets you apart from your competition. People do not buy products and service. People buy emotions. People do not pay $150 an ounce for caviar because it's good. They pay that because it makes them feel important. The fact that it is good is a minimum expectation. They would expect it to be good if it cost $2 an ounce, or they would never buy it again.\n\nSome examples of marketing a USP overcoming quality of products or service include:\n\nHooters\n- product (sex)\n- weaknesses (low quality food, marginal service)\n- success (high)\n\nMcDonalds\n- product (convenience)\n- weaknesses (low quality food)\n- success (high)\n\nThere's a list a mile long of restaurants that overcome weaknesses through good marketing, choosing a USP and pushing it instead of their food. Even restaurants with good food and service that are successful have figured out that their quality is not the reason for their success, but merely a minimum expectation of their customer. They always have another product they are pushing, and it's always an emotion. \n\nEmotions sell. They are the real product.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com
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It's all about economies of scale.\n\nEach local area will have a van which both delivers and collects in that area on the same run.\n\nThe van returns to a depot which serves a larger area, many similar small vans serve the other local local areas which make up this larger area.\n\neach one of these small vans hadles in the region of 100+ items a day.a depot may have in the region of 20 to 50 odd vans\n\nAfter collection the items are sorted as to which of the other depots they need to goto to be delivered, then , usually at night, large trucks make 'trunk runs' between depots, carrying thousands of items.\n\non arrival at another depot the items are sorted as to which van they need to goto to be delivered or somtimes they are 'through trunked' with more items going to another depot. Depots which handel these 'through trunked' items tend to be very large centally located depots called 'Hubs' \n\nMost of the cost involved is the small van collecting and delivering the packet locally (one man spends 10 mins collection and 10 mins deliverings an item, including driving time , that represents the most man/minuites per item anywhere in the chain.\n\nThe bulk of the work tends to be deliver of supples into shops and busineses, which means about 80% of the work is regular runs so the driver gets to know where the deliveries are and the best time to try and make them (traffic restriction deliverying into town centre pedestrian zones etc) and that most collections are of multiple items for separate delivery.\n\nThese delivery services tend to be made up of local indpendant delivery companies, which operate together as a group, with a common group identity,  with most of the large delivery companies the smaller companies are wholly own subsidiaries.\n\nThe term for the freight traveling between depots is 'groupage'\nto improve efficiencey and flexibility the inter depot trunking is often done by sub contract hauliers, somtimes with their own trailers etc.\n\nThe post office is usually geared up to handle letters and small packets, their sysytems do not handle larger items very efficiently, hence the fact that there are many commercial parcel carrage companies providing more efficient services.\n\ninterestingly attempts to break the post office monopoly on carrying letters are not progressing a quickly as many had predicted, because the groupage industry is not geared up to carry small low value items, and can't compete with the post office on price.except where large companies sent a very large number of letters out at the same time from the same place(mobile phone bills etc) and interestingly the final delivery is often done by the local post man.
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Like any other environment you start with a risk assessment that leads to a target of 'risks' that need addressed (removed or reduced).  Like any other risk management system the assessments need to be review regularly and immediately if the environment changes.\n\nThe operationally most important step is staff training which ensures everyone is aware of their individual responsibility for their, and other persons, safety.\n\nHope that helps
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It is the function in an organization that determines the amount of materials that the organization will need for a specific business function.\n\nFor example:  The organization that produces the Dawn Soap bottles for Proctor and Gamble have to determine how much raw plastic they are going to need on a day to day basis so that they can produce a sufficient amount of bottle molds to match P&G's production output.
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The inventories of finished goods or raw material can be planned by forcasting the demand/sales of your finished goods. Now once you have this data and you know the ordering/delivery times, you can plan/manage inventory. To get a better management handle, use of statistical techniques is strongly recommended.
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Not really sure about this one but as the supply chain is the movement of goods from source to consumer and the processes taken to achieve this I would think it could be the costs involved in the transport of the said goods.
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That is dependant on a lot of factors.  Including standard practice of the organization you're working with, type of project and scope of project.  Below are some links to explore.
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Inventory control is basically making sure you have enough of what is selling on hand, to meet demand, and making sure you don't get overstocked on slow moving items.\n\nMost larger companies use a computerized system and the bar codes that manufacturers place on products to keep a running total of what is on hand and what is moving.  In that way, they get a fairly good idea of how much stock they need to keep on hand.\n\nIn a world of overnight shipping, it is no longer necessary to keep huge quantities of anything in stock.  Some suppliers will even do you the favor of keeping track of how often you have to order a specific item and arranging autoshipments when history indicates you might be running low.\n\nWithout more information, that's the best I can do to answer your question.  If you are lost in the middle of a bunch of cartons and crates, you might consider starting by taking an inventory of what you already have on hand.
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Check the content of this web link:\n\nhttp://www.glocentra.com/globalsales_logistics.pdf\n\nThis will help to understand what to take in consideration to set up channels of sales and distribution.\n\nIf you need more, you can review and choose from a list of Powerpoint presentations and studies that are also listed in the following web page:\n\nhttp://www.glocentra.com/case_studies.htm\n\nLet me know if you need more:\n\nsaidcherkaoui@glocentra.com\n\nGood Luck
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I have no idea what kind of information you're looking for. You haven't given much information. But, you can start here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse
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Yeah like the 1st person said, to maximize the production. Operations management gives several techniques to maximize the use of resources, say money, people, materials, etc.  It can also help you plan a proyect through pert and cpm. Sorry i cant tell u more, my main language is spanish so i dont really know how to translate this technical words and the names of the techniques. If you understand spanish i can tell you more.
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the most important factor would be TIME. for example think about all the softwares that are daily used in businesses, what if they did not exist? how long and tiring would the procedure be to complete a simple process...
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It usually means the problems of handling the details of an operation.  \n\n"Logistics" is a military term. It means the aspects of dealing with the procurement, maintenance and transportation of military material.\n\nMost industries in business have assimilated the term adapting it operations and supply chain.
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By any Means Necessary