Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources like products, services, and people, from the source of production to the It is difficult to accomplish any marketing or manufacturing without logistical It involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials, work in process, and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost Logistics and Supply Chain services are provided by a wide range of 3rd party Logistics management is that part of the supply chain which plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' A professional working in the field of logistics management is often called a Logistics as a business concept evolved only in the This was mainly due to the increasing complexity of supplying one's business with materials and shipping out products in an increasingly globalized supply chain, calling for experts in the field who are called Supply Chain L This can be defined as having the right item in the right quantity at the right time at the right place for the right price and is the science of process and incorporates all industry The goal of logistic 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 logistics manager include Inventory Management, purchasing, transport, warehousing, and the organizing and planning of these Logistics managers combine a general knowledge of each of these functions so that there is a coordination of resources in an There are two fundamentally different forms of One optimizes a steady flow of material through a network of transport links and storage The other coordinates a sequence of resources to carry out some Process Control and Logistics Management for Mass Cv/msidlibrary/doc/process_pdf