Logistics – important part of our live

1. Logistics – important part of our live By MaksimovaValentina College № 31

2. What is logistics? • Logistics is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the effective and efficient flow of goods and services from the point of origin to the point of consumption. • Not many have wondered: «How much is important to us Logistics?», and «What is it actually?».

3. Logistics facilities • The resources managed in logistics can include physical items, such as food, materials, animals, equipment and liquids, as well as abstract items, such as time, information, particles, and energy. • So, let's look at the impact of logistics on our daily lives.

4. Let’s see the bread path from creation to the consumer • Each loaf of bread originates in the bakery (factory) . • Bread originally made up of different ingredients that come on this factory

5. 1 STEP: PRODUCTION (the point of origin ) • The most important ingredient - flour, after storage in silos, falls into the screening device, and then shop for cooking the dough. • Moving in forms or sheets on the conveyor belt, the dough insists finally sent into the furnace. • In the furnace this is a great miracle - the birth of bread.

6. 2 STEP:TRANSPORTATION • Ready bread placed in mobile containers, which are then packed on the cars. • Cars deliver bread in the shops.

7. 3 STEP: SELLING (the point of consumption) • Lots of bread are purchase and eat (use) by consumers every day.

8. On all three steps present work logistician: • Step 1: Calculation of storage of individual ingredients (reserve) and the finished product, transportation of the product to the factory; • Step 2: Calculation of Number of goods, packaging, transportation, delivery to stores; • Step 3: unloading and packaging;

9. Functions of logistician • The main functions of a qualified logistician include inventory management, purchasing, transportation, warehousing, consultation, and the organizing and planning of these activities. • Logisticians combine a professional knowledge of each of these functions to coordinate resources in an organization

10. Professional logisticians • Professional logisticians are often certified by professional associations. One can either work in a pure logistics company, such as a shipping line, airport, or freight forwarder, or within the logistics department of a company. However, as mentioned above, logistics is a broad field, encompassing procurement, production, distribution, and disposal activities.

11. Some universities and academic institutions train students as logisticians, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

12. Thank you for attention!