Logistics and the supply chain
Logistics is managing resources from acquisition, through storage and transport, to their final destination. The supply chain is the whole system of organisations, people and resources that moves a product from supplier to customer. Paper 1 asks for both definitions, and for the final step in the chain.
By the end of this page you can
- Define logistics and the supply chain
- Give advantages and challenges of supply chains
- List the supply chain activities in order
- Explain how logistics makes a business competitive
Goals tick themselves off as you try the activities below.
Photo: 徳島小松島港振興協会 (Tokushima Komatsushima Port Promotion Association), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, ship name, container and crane marks blurred, resized, JPEG q74.
Ships, cranes, trucks and warehouses: logistics links them so goods arrive on time.
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