Integrated logistics management involves coordinating the flow of goods from suppliers to customers. It requires cross-functional collaboration within a company and partnerships with external partners. The goal is to rapidly and efficiently fulfill customer needs with minimum inventory, transportation, and production variances. Effective integrated logistics considers customer demands, acquires necessary resources, and optimizes distribution networks.
2. Logistics
• planning, implementing, and
controlling the physical flow of
goods, services, and related
information from points of origin to
points of consumption to meet
customer requirements at a profit.
3. Integrated Logistics
• Process of anticipating customer needs and
wants
• Acquiring the capital, materials, people,
technologies and information necessary to
meet those needs and wants
• Optimizing the goods-or-service-producing a
network to fulfill customer requests
• Utilizing the network to fulfill customer
request in a timely way
4. Integrated Logistics Management
• Cross functional teamwork
inside the company
• Building channel
partnerships
• Third party logistics
5. Objectives of Integrated
Logistics Management
• Rapid response
• Minimum variance
• Minimum inventory
• Movement consolidation
• Life cycle support
6. Variables affecting the Evaluation and
Growth of Integrated Logistics:
• Growth of the consumer awareness and the
marketing concept
• Introduction of the computer
• Globalization of business and the development of
world trade blocks
• Growth of JIT manufacturing, supply management,
transportation and electronic data interchange (EDI)
in the 1980s and 1990s
7. • Physical Distribution
• Materials Management
• Logistics Engineering
• Business Logistics
• Logistics Management
• Integrated Logistics Management
• Distribution Management
• Supply Chain Management
Activities related to
Integrated Logistics
10. Why Logistics?
• Effective logistics is becoming a key to winning
and keeping customers
• Logistics is a major cost element for most
companies
• The explosion in product variety has created a
need for improved logistics management
• Information technology has created
opportunities for major gains in distribution
efficiency