Logistics

Logistics is a business planning framework for the management of material, service, information and capital flows. It includes the increasingly complex information, communication and control systems required in today's business environment. The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces those aspects of military operations that deal with the design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation and disposition of material; movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; acquisition of construction, maintenance, operation and disposition of facilities; and acquisition of furnishing of services. The procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and materiel. Acquisition Logistics is everything involved in acquiring logistics support equipment and personnel for a new weapons system. The formal definition is "the process of systematically identifying, defining, designing, developing, producing, acquiring, delivering, installing, and upgrading logistics support capability requirements through the acquisition process for Air Force systems, subsystems, and equipment.

Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is a management function that provides planning, funding, and functioning controls which help to assure that the system meets performance requirements, is developed at a reasonable price, and can be supported throughout its life cycle.

Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) - Simply put, LSA is the iterative process of identifying support requirements for a new system, especially in the early stages of system design. The main goals of LSA are to ensure that the system will perform as intended and to influence the design for supportability and affordability.

 Logistics Management
Given the extended supply chains within the global marketplace, companies need transportation strategies designed to achieve the service levels that customers demand while reducing costs. Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates, and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. All of these factors make transportation costs a larger percentage of the cost of goods sold. Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance, and reduced damage -in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes. Add to all of this an increased need for global freight visibility and control, and companies are scrambling to find the right solution to quickly address these challenges

 Transportation Planning and Management

The Transportation Planning and Management uses configurable business rules and appropriate constraints to transform order fulfillment, procurement, and replenishment plans into cost optimized and executable

transportation plans that adhere to facility inventory and transportation network constraints. By managing the entire transportation life cycle, this solution can help reduce costs, improve transport efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction.

 Transportation Modeling and Analysis

In order to improve transportation performance and efficiency, it is essential to understand the complexities that businesses face today. A system capable of monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on important transport activities must be available. Unfortunately, few companies have the specialized systems needed to model and evaluate transportation network strategies, modes, carriers, and other transport variables on a periodic basis.

 Transportation Bid Collaboration

Companies at every stage of the supply chain are looking for ways to control costs, improve service, and accelerate return on investment. By working together to negotiate transportation rates, shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) can establish fair and accurate contract rates by lane and service. But to do that, a sophisticated and reliable information system is required. Transportation Bid Collaboration provides a suite of tools for the periodic negotiation of transportation rates.

 Logistics Management: Features and Benefits

Total Logistics Management creates value by synchronizing critical transportation and distribution business processes, resulting in optimal cost and service performance. Companies can minimize IT complexity and, through more accurate data, enhance colla boration with supply chain partners. By leveraging existing supply chain infrastructure investments, companies can lower their total cost of ownership while maximizing their return on investment.

Driving Customer Service Improvement

Effective transportation management enables improved on -time delivery performance, reduced damage-in-transit, and better visibility into shipment status. With in Logistics Management, companies can minimize service failures by efficiently handling high volumes during peak perio ds.

Driving Financial Improvement

Effective transportation management enables companies to reduce logistics costs by 5 25% through improved rates with carriers, more robust shipment planning, and greater process automation. Logistics Management allows companies to reduce inventory levels through improved exception management and more reliable delivery performance. It also drives hard cost value through improved asset utilization, enabling the optimal deployment of private or dedicated assets and providing better common carrier capacity coverage.

Driving Operations Improvement

A collaborative rate negotiation process that leverages bid

optimization and network modeling enables companies to identify the optimal cost/service trade-offs and to align with the best partners. Logistics Management from it enables companies to leverage more than 20 years of best-in-class logistics management solutions in complex areas such as backhauling, continuous moves, merge-in-transit, dynamic routing, integrated planning execution, events management, and hundreds of other transportation services.