Logistics management is a supply chain management component that is used to meet

customer demands through the planning, control and implementation of the effective
movement and storage of related information, goods and services from origin to
destination. Logistics management helps companies reduce expenses and enhance
customer service.
The logistics management process begins with raw material accumulation to the final
stage of delivering goods to the destination.
By adhering to customer needs and industry standards, logistics management facilitates
process strategy, planning and implementation.

Logistics management involves numerous elements, including:

 Selecting appropriate vendors with the ability to provide transportation facilities

 Choosing the most effective routes for transportation
 Discovering the most competent delivery method
 Using software and IT resources to proficiently handle related processes

In logistics management, unwise decisions create multiple issues. For example,

deliveries that fail or are delayed lead to buyer dissatisfaction. Damage of goods due to
careless transportation is another potential issue. Poor logistics planning gradually
increases expenses, and issues may arise from the implementation of ineffective
logistics software. Most of these problems occur due to improper decisions related to
outsourcing, such as selecting the wrong vendor or carrying out delivery tasks without
sufficient resources.
To resolve these issues, organizations should implement best logistic management
practices. Companies should focus on collaboration rather than competition. Good
collaboration among transportation providers, buyers and vendors helps reduce
expenses. An efficient and safe transportation provider is also vital to business success.

The four types of logistics are supply, distribution, production and reverse logistics.
Supply Management and Logistics Supply management involves the planning and coordination
of materials that are needed in a certain location at a specific time to support production or
activity (as in the case with military supply).
Supply logistics must include transportation of the materials and storage as well as a means for
evaluating the level of supply at different stages of the process to make sure the flow of
materials matches need. This can involve getting all of the construction materials to a
construction site or parts that are needed in a manufacturing plant.
Distribution and Material Movement Distribution involves managing how a supplied and stored
material is then dispersed to the locations it is needed. This involves issues of material
movement (loading, unloading and transportation), tracking of stock and accountability of use
(recording how the supply is used and by whom). This can involve moving supplies from a
central warehouse to the shelves of a retail store.
Production Logistics and Management Production logistics manages the stages of combining
distributed supplies into a product. This can involve the coordination required in a
manufacturing or assembling process and in the case of applications such as military
production, the logistics of coordinating space and areas for production to occur. In
construction as well, production logistics will include the staging of material at the right time to
coordinate with the phase of building taking place.
Reverse Logistics and Product Return Reverse logistics involves the reclamation of material and
supplies from a production or assembly process. For instance, in the logistics management of a
construction project, reverse logistics plans for the removal of excess material and re-
absorption of the material into a stock supply.

10 Elements of Logistic Management These elements are:

1. Logistics and Maintenance Support Planning: Interactive planning, organisation and
management activities are necessary to ensure that logistics requirements for any given
program are properly coordinated and implemented. Initial planning and analysis lead to the
establishment of requirements for logistics and the overall support of the system throughout its
life cycle. Maintenance planning for those activities related to the reverse flow convinces with
the definition of maintenance concept and continues through supportability analysis to the
ultimate development of a maintenance plan. A comprehensive logistics plan needs to be
implemented through the establishment and control functions to ensure that the plan is
properly carried out.
2. Logistics Maintenance and Support Personnel: The personal required to perform unique
logistics and system maintenance activities are covered in this category. Such activities include
the initial provision and procurement of items of support, production related logistics functions,
the installation and checkout of the system and its elements at the user’s operational sites
customer service functions, the sustaining support of the system throughout its planned period
of use, and those functions required for the retirement and recycling or disposal of material.
Personnel at all levels of maintenance mobile teams, and operation or maintenance at special
test facilities and calibration laboratories are included. It is important to include only those who
can be directly attributed to the support of that system in evaluation of a particular system.
3. Training and Training Support: This category includes all personnel, equipment, facilities data
or documentation and associated resources necessary for the training of operational and
maintenance personnel to include both initial and replenishment or replacement training.
Training equipment say simulators, mock-ups, special devices, training manuals and computer
resources Software are developed and utilized as necessary to support the day-to-day-site
training, distance education of a more formal nature.
4. Supply Support—Spares or repair parts and associated inventories: This elements covers all
spares say, repairable units, assemblies, modules and the like, repair parts say, non-repairable
pasts or components, Censurable, liquids, lubricants, gases disposable items special supplies,
and related inventories needed to maintain the prime mission related equipment computers
and software, test and support equipment, transportation and handling equipment, training
equipment, communications equipment and facilities or utilities. Spares or repair parts are
required throughout the system operational share and in support of the retirement and
recycling or disposal of system components.
5. Computer Resources: This category covers all computers, associated software connecting
components, net works, and interfaces necessary to support the day-to-day flow of information
for all logistics functions, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities and special
monitoring and reporting requirements such as those pertaining to CAD/CAM/CAS data the
implementation of condition monitoring programs and in support of system diagnostic
capabilities.
6. Technical data, Reports and Documentation: Technical data may include system installation
and check out procedures operating and maintenance instructions inspection and calibration
procedures, overhaul instruction, facilities data, system modification’s engineering data such as
specifications, drawings, materials and parts list, CAD/CAM/CAS data, special reports Logistics
provisioning and procurement data, Supplier data, system operational and maintenance data,
and supporting data bases. Included in this category is the on-going and interactive process of
data collection, analysis and reporting covering the system throughout its life- cycle,
7. Maintenance and Support Facilities and Utilities: This category covers all special facilities that
are unique and are required to support logistics activities, to include storage buildings and
warehouses and maintenance facilities at all levels. Physical plant, portable buildings, mobile
vans, personnel housing structures, intermediate level maintenance shops, calibration
laboratories and special repair shops such as depots, overhaul material suppliers are
considered. Capital equipment and utilities heat, power, energy requirements, environmental
controls, communications, safety and security provisions and the like are generally included as
the part of facilities.
8. Packaging, Handling, Storage or ware housing and Transportation: This category logistics
includes all materials, equipment special provisions, containers both resistible and disposable
and supplies necessary to support the packages, safety and preservation, storage, handling and
or transportation of the prime mission related elements of the system, personnel spares and
repair parts, test and support equipment technical data, computer resources and mobile
facilities. Covered in this group are the initial and sustaining transportation requirements for
the distribution of materials and for the maintenance and support activities throughout the
system life cycle. The primary modes of transportation—air, highways, pipelines railways and
water ways and intermodal, truck, rail, truck, waters, rail, water, truck, air and the like are
considered.
9. Test, Measurement, Handling and Support Equipment: This category includes all tools,
condition monitoring equipment, diagnostic and checkout equipment, special test equipment,
metrology and calibration equipment, maintenance fixtures and stands and special handling
equipment required to support operational and maintenance functions through-out the
forward and reverse flows, Test and support equipment requirements at each level of
maintenance must be considered as well as the overall traceability of test requirement or
measures to a secondary standard, a transfer standard and finally to a primary standard.
10. Logistic Information: This refers to the resources necessary to ensure that an effective and
efficient logistics information flow is provided throughout and to the organizations responsible
for all the activities that come within its focus. This flow includes the necessary, communication
links among the customer, producer or prime contractor, sub-contractors, sup- priors and
supporting maintenance organisations. It is but essential that the proper type and amount of
information be provided to the appropriate organisational elements, in proper formats and in a
reliable and timely manner with the necessary security provisions included.