Distribution Logistics Best Practice
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- Introduction
- Objective
- Who should attend
Distribution logistics (also known as transport logistics or sales logistics) is the link between production and the market. The area comprises all processes involved in the distribution of goods - from manufacturing companies to customers. Customers are either final customers, distributors or processors
Distribution Logistics Best Practice training course will cover both applications and the important theoretical background, therefore extending its reach to practitioners and delegates in a range of disciplines such as management, engineering, mathematics, and statistics.
All elements of distribution and logistics management will be covered, including physical distribution, warehouse selection, material handling, packaging, order fulfillment, customer service, inventory management, receiving, production stores, and returned goods.
Course Outline
Supply chain management
- What do we mean by logistics?
- Plan of the chapter.
- Structure of production/distribution networks.
- Competition factors, cost drivers, and strategy.
- Competition factors.
- Cost drivers.
- Strategy.
- The role of inventories.
- A classical model: Economic Order Quantity.
- Cycle vs. capacity-induced stock.
- Dealing with uncertainty.
- Setting safety stocks.
- A two-stage decision process: Production planning in an assemble-to-order environment.
- Inventory deployment.
- Physical flows and transportation.
- Time horizons and hierarchical levels.
- Decision approaches.
- Information flows and decision rights.
- Quantitative models and methods.
- For further reading.
Network Design and Transportation
- The role of intermediate nodes in a distribution network.
- The risk pooling effect: reducing the uncertainty level.
- The role of transit points in transportation optimization.
- Location and flow optimization models.
- The transportation problem
- The minimum cost flow problem.
- The plant location problem
- Putting it all together
- Models involving nonlinear costs.
- For Further Reading.
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