(summary) intoduction logitics management

Origins The word logistics comes from the Greek word "logos" which means "ratio, word, calculation, reason, speech, speech" Logistics is a concept that is considered to have evolved from the military's need to fulfill their supplies when they went to the battlefield from headquarters.

ILS (Integrated Logistics Support) is a discipline used by the army / military to ensure a strong support system with supply services (logistics) the concept of thinking is the lowest cost and in accordance with the needs, reliable, adequate inventory, maintainability and others as requirements set for it. In military logistics, logistical officers regulate how and when to move their resources to places that are needed. In military science, maintaining supplies is not permitted by enemies as part of a military strategy, because the armed forces without resources and transportation will be powerless.

w  World War I

–        Germans entered WWI with no arrangements to feed their horses

–        Fodder frequently found, ready-harvested, and neatly stacked in the fields
H. von Kuhl und J. von Bergmann, 1920

w  World War II

–        “In view of the undoubted importance of mud as a factor in the German defeat (Soviet Invasion 1941), the Wehrmacht was wrong in basing its logistic system on wheels instead of tracks.”
B H Liddell Hart in History of WWII, 1972

–        US Military brought detailed Operations Research and Logistics Planning skills into Operation Torch and later Operation Overlord

–        Red Ball Express—One way highway system in Europe open exclusively to thousands of Allied Logistics vehicles (24 hours per day)

Supply chain is Network of manufacturing & distribution sites that interact to procure & transform raw materials for producing finished goods to customers.

logistics is the process of planning,implementing and controlling the efficient, cost-effective flow and storage of raw material, in process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements.

scm is the intergration of all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods from raw material through to end user, as well as information flows, through improved supply chain relationships, to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.