Logistics – important part of our live By Maksimova Valentina College № 31

 Logistics is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the effective and efficient flow of goods and services from the point of origin to the point of consumption.  Not many have wondered: «How much is important to us Logistics?», and «What is it actually?». What is logistics?

 The resources managed in logistics can include physical items, such as food, materials, animals, equipment and liquids, as well as abstract items, such as time, information, particles, and energy.  So, let's look at the impact of logistics on our daily lives. Logistics facilities

 Each loaf of bread originates in the bakery (factory).  Bread originally made up of different ingredients that come on this factory Let’s see the bread path from creation to the consumer

 The most important ingredient - flour, after storage in silos, falls into the screening device, and then shop for cooking the dough.  Moving in forms or sheets on the conveyor belt, the dough insists finally sent into the furnace.  In the furnace this is a great miracle - the birth of bread. 1 STEP: PRODUCTION (the point of origin )

 Ready bread placed in mobile containers, which are then packed on the cars.  Cars deliver bread in the shops. 2 STEP: TRANSPORTATION

 Lots of bread are purchase and eat (use) by consumers every day. 3 STEP: SELLING (the point of consumption)

 Step 1: Calculation of storage of individual ingredients (reserve) and the finished product, transportation of the product to the factory;  Step 2: Calculation of Number of goods, packaging, transportation, delivery to stores;  Step 3: unloading and packaging; On all three steps present work logistician:

 The main functions of a qualified logistician include inventory management, purchasing, transportation, warehousing, consultation, and the organizing and planning of these activities.  Logisticians combine a professional knowledge of each of these functions to coordinate resources in an organization Functions of logistician

 Professional logisticians are often certified by professional associations. One can either work in a pure logistics company, such as a shipping line, airport, or freight forwarder, or within the logistics department of a company. However, as mentioned above, logistics is a broad field, encompassing procurement, production, distribution, and disposal activities. Professional logisticians

Some universities and academic institutions train students as logisticians, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

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