Logistics management : design and application.
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Authors
Knudsen, Sjur W.
Subjects
logistics management
materials administration
materials administration
Advisors
Creighton, John W.
Sagehorn, R.W.
Date of Issue
1978-12
Date
December 1978
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Logistics management is a relatively new field of integrated
management study resulting mainly from a reorganization
of related materials activities that previously were
scattered among the organizational units within a company.
Logistics management is a comprehensive term covering
the method by which one attempts to see as a single unit the
materials flow to, inside, and from the company.
In the broadest sense, logistics management views a
company as a single operating system; it seeks to minimize
total costs associated with the acquisition and handling of
materials from the inception of materials requirements to
the final delivery of finished products to their users.
Logistics management can therefore be defined as the planning,
organizing, and controlling of all move-store activities chat
facilitate product flow from the point of raw material acquisition
to the point of final consumption, and of the attendant
information flows, for the purpose of providing a
sufficient level of customer service (and associated revenues)
consistent with the costs incurred for overcoming the resistance
of time and space in providing the service [1;8].
The successful management of logistics in an organization
requires the careful coordination and manipulation of both
movement and storage.
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Administrative Science
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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