Transcription of Logistics Course Notes - MDH
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Logistics Business Logistics : An area of management that has been observed to absorb more than 30% of the sales dollar for some firms, that is an essential element in meeting customer goals, and that can be essential to a firms competitive strategy. It has been called by many names, including Physical Distribution, Materials Management, and Supply Chain Management. The activities to be managed may include all or part of the following: Transportation Inventory maintenance Order processing Purchasing Warehousing Materials handling Packaging Customer service standards, and Product scheduling A dictionary definition of Logistics is The branch of military science having to do with procuring, maintaining, and transporting material, personnel, a
Product Characteristics Logistics costs are sensitive to such characteristics as product weight, volume (cube), value, and risk. In the logistics channel, these characteristics can be altered through package design or
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