The Importance Of Logistic In A Global Environment.(Essay)

ssayCorona1 Carlos Corona Moreno

Professor Felipe Polina

Logistics

5 March 2013

The Importance of Logistics in a Global Environment.

The logistics are really important; the logistics is not only for business. I think that the logistics starts even in the family, how the father works to bring the money to the house then how the mother use that money in the proper way, in order forthe family to have food and study, and then the children’s to make that money worth it; eating well and with good results at the school, at the end everything starts again, and the family cycle is working properly, because everyone is giving a little bit of help to make the “Family Logistics” a good company to join. Could be strange that I give an example about logistics with a family, buteverything goes from the simple to the complex.

Corona2 What logistics means? According with Oxford Dictionary: “The detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation:

The logistics of a large-scale rock show demand certain necessities  

The activity of organizing the movement, equipment, and accommodation of troops. The commercial activity of transporting goods to customers:[as modifier]:

our fleet vehicle management system enables logistics firms to track deliveries using satellite technology

Origin: late 19th century: from French logistique, from loger 'to lodge'”

(Oxford Dictionaries.) “The word logistics comes from the name of Maréchal du Logis, who was in charge of supplies in Napoleon’s armed forces

So, know if we go further to the complexdefinition of logistics; logistics is a process that a commodity moves through from the initial customer order to final consumption of the commodity by the customer.

Corona3 Logistics is:

A process started by the customer and ended by the customer involving numbers of steps: logistics normally involves a number of distinct steps starting with: The customer’s order , followed by buying the suppliesto make up the customer’s order, producing the product or service the customer wants, managing the material needed to produce the product or service, getting the product correctly packaged, for the global market place (the customer), moving the finished goods on to a warehouse or distributor center, transporting the goods to the wholesale or retailer, and finally to the customer, managing theinformation that accompanies the process and making sure the customer pays for the goods or service (financial management).”

(Voortman)

The Supply Chain Management.

Is the mix of all the activities related to the flow and transformation of goods from raw material through the end user. Improves supply chain relationships to get a sustainable competitive advantage.

The managers form thecompanies move the products through the borders of the country, they know really well that is not the same the domestic logistic and the international logistics. The international supply chain management is not just a simple extension of the domestic supply chain management. Many of additional typical factors of any supply chain could make the task more difficult.

Corona4 The expansion of theinternational commerce in the global environment has led important advances in the logistic infrastructure in different countries, particularly what refers to transport, deregulations and the simplification of the custom processes, the reality shows many inherent difficult to the international commerce that hasn’t been resolved.

Many different cultures, currencies, regulations and logisticspractices are facts that make more difficult the movement of the products; this facts are on the majority out of the competence of the big companies; what could make the companies to face this difficulties, then?

International supply chain arises from the need to integrate international suppliers, for the exportation of the finished products or for a global integration of operations of supply,...