Jeremy Batchelor and Ian Kirkpatrick say supply chain managers should take a radically different approach to strategic logistics systems.
Towards the truly agile
Logistics is all about managing a network of storage locations
connected by transport links and across which the company
needs to deploy inventory in the most effective manner to
achieve optimal customer service at the lowest cost.
At a strategic level, logistics managers are addressing issues
around how many warehouses are needed, where to put them,
how to connect them and where to put the inventory in response.
These issues commonly result from the need to satisfy the
logistics demands placed on them by their business colleagues
– as illustrated in Table 1.
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