Business logisticsLogistics as a business concept evolved in the 1950s due to the increasing complexity of supplying businesses with materials and shipping out products in an increasingly globalized supply chain， leading to a call for experts called supply chain Business logistics can be defined as "having the right item in the right quantity at the right time at the right place for the right price in the right condition to the right customer"， and is the science of process and incorporates all industry The goal of logistics work is to manage the fruition of project life cycles， supply chains and resultant In business， logistics may have either internal focus (inbound logistics)， or external focus (outbound logistics) covering the flow and storage of materials from point of origin to point of consumption (see supply chain management) The main functions of a qualified logistician include inventory management， purchasing， transportation， warehousing， consultation and the organizing and planning of these Logisticians combine a professional knowledge of each of these functions to coordinate resources in an There are two fundamentally different forms of logistics: one optimizes a steady flow of material through a network of transport links and storage nodes; the other coordinates a sequence of resources to carry out some [edit]Production logisticsThe term production logistics is used to describe logistic processes within an The purpose of production logistics is to ensure that each machine and workstation is being fed with the right product in the right quantity and quality at the right The concern is not the transportation itself， but to streamline and control the flow through value-adding processes and eliminate non–value-adding Production logistics can be applied to existing as well as new Manufacturing in an existing plant is a constantly changing Machines are exchanged and new ones added， which gives the opportunity to improve the production logistics system Production logistics provides the means to achieve customer response and capital Production logistics is becoming more important with decreasing batch In many industries ( mobile phones)， a batch size of one is the short-term aim， allowing even a single customer's demand to be fulfilled Track and tracing， which is an essential part of production logistics—due to product safety and product reliability issues—is also gaining importance， especially in the automotive and medical 出处 wikipedia
