Logistics management involves ensuring the right materials are in the right place at the right time. Key objectives of logistics management include customer satisfaction, understanding customer needs, managing uncertainty, responding to globalization, effective information flow, and reducing costs. Logistics is a rapidly growing field with careers in areas like inventory control, warehousing, transportation, consulting, and customer service. Effective logistics requires planning locations, staffing, transportation, order fulfillment, inventory management, and supply chain coordination.

1. LOGISTICS IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
 Right material at right place at all the time
 The act of supervising or managing this (Right
material at right place at all the time in good
condition) far-reaching activity is generally known
as “Logistics Management” & the people who
works in this industry are generally referred as
“Logistic managers or Distribution managers.”

2. Objectives
1. Customers satisfaction ( with product/service availability)
2. Understanding the customers (understand the needs & the
req. of customers, more imp to understand time, place n
atmosphere)
3. Managing the uncertainty ( need to join hands with suppliers
n customers)
4. Responding to Globalization( IT spreads Globalization)
5. Information flow( Keeping right data & decisions to every
person)
6. Cost reduction & improving profits( leads to progressive
org’n)

3. Logistics Careers:
 Logistics is rapidly growing, leading edge field that is expected to
continue growing even more in future.
 at the time of plan business strategies, logistics is a major part of
the planning process. Many organization have a top level position
for this function.
The job structure of Logistics Head:
 A logistics pipeline begins with supplier & ends with customers
All logistics carriers relate to transportation, because they all
relate to a moving goods.
A typical career path in LM may be a “zig-zag” of cross training
& experience in several of these fields, rather than a straight line
progressing in any one directon.

4. Following is the list of job titles for logistics
careers are:-
 Inventory control
Warehousing
Administrative
Administrative analyst/planner
Customer service
Consultant
Transportation

5. Areas of Logistics Strategy:-
• Vision/Mission Development
•Transportation
•Vendor Development
•Logistics system
•Competitors
•Human Resources
•Network Design for information flow
•Supply chain
•Information
•Options Analysis
•Strategy Review
•Communications

6. Aspects of Logistic management :
 Location
Staff & service
Taxation
Faster development of new products
 Efficient development of suppliers
 Packaging
Transportation
Order fulfillment
Inventory
Customer management

7. Logistics Planning:-
 Performance measures & goals
Processes
System requirement
Org’n req. for customers service
Inventory planning & management
Supply
Transportation & Distribution

8. 3C’s :-
Change
Customers Competition
What they want?? When
they want?? At what place
they want the delivery?
When he will pay? He has
a wisher
Technological advancement
& advt.
Technological change promots
innovation