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Define logistics
AboutRetail.net on the glossary of logistics is defined as "the planning and execution of product marketing." When buying milk, bread or anything these days is completely out of your IKEA, the journey from the field of business planned and executed, unless, of course, your business is successful, a cow and a mill to your bread garden.
Logistics is a word that has changed from one definition to another, dependingon time and according to demand. It can be used in the calculation (the original meaning) and military planning. In fact, used in a variety of settings. Logistics word has a wide arc, there is no danger, it means nothing. In recent years there has been through that before the distribution sector is known to have been adopted.
The distribution is a simple thing to throw some 'goods on a ship, truck, or aircraft at point A to point and throw them outB. ..... oh, plus the little thing from A to B in a word, the logistics, including distribution, but also takes into account the fact that the vehicle is ready for service, the driver (or captain needs) is to be available and with sufficient hours of his shift, the goods are ready to be collected, the trip was planned, including stops along the way, the receiver is ready to receive the goods ... and
There are many other parts of the logistics puzzle. The word for Logisticsthe bill very well. All these definitions, it has collected over the years, not at all suited to the variety of tasks and the attributes of its multi-task performers (some say "logistics"), which all come under the banner of logistics.
The need to reverse the goods
industrialized economies have their logistics expertise to the point where large quantities of goods can be effectively removed from many places, moved to other places, manyStop-off points, all recorded and counted. Like a well oiled machine. A well-oiled machine, with no reverse gear, that is. The fat sand in the gears of this machine is the need to move things from B to A. Many large logistics set up in our movements, but bad in reverse and reverse logistics, as is generally known. It could be argued that the most challenging logistics front, the more embarrassing the Reverse Logistics.
There are many reasons for this.One of the main reasons is that the systems without paper in front of logistics, in which the products are scanned as they were built to exceed a threshold. The problem is that some systems are not programmed to accept the products acquired in reverse order. Reverse transactions historically have been rare (the odd game back, maybe), old-fashioned pen and paper was used to house them. Another reason is that once a vehicle is empty, you can not return to its base. Send back a box is simply a matter ofthe system runs in reverse order. In a simple one-to-one distribution system, this would be entirely possible. The vehicle drives A, B arrives, download and upload boxes for the trip back to A. Increasingly, this simple operation is not appropriate in modern logistics. In a one-to-many vehicle can end up on the wrong side of the country (or world). In another common scenario, the vehicle can continue to pick up another load and leaves the last port of callempty.
Why is there an increase in reverse logistics
Most organizations can handle a delicate thread of documents and some new boxes come in a passing vehicle, then what's the problem? Well, this is the problem that the movement of goods to travel back along the supply chain is no longer limited to a few unwanted versa. The following list is the new tariffs for goods to send back:
- Goods for the recycling
- Reusable packaging
- Goodsbeing disposed
I take these areas in turn:
Have been recycled:
We are the global pressure
to improve on all of us to recycle our efforts for the goods. This pressure is uneven, put a burden on businesses (and local), the set of proportion to the burden on the individual. If this is right or wrong is, in most countries today, the reality that must be addressed. vehicles increasingly take goods back to the full for the goods orpartially recycled. This increase is expected to accelerate throughout the world in the coming years.
reusable packaging:
Environmental protection has also led to a demand for packing a lot more than we did in past re-use. Old fashioned cardboard boxes that are always dumped after a trip is no longer acceptable in a growing number of companies. This is not only an environmental imperative to respect the legal and moral pressure, it is also an economic necessity:very often the re-packaging saves money.
Disposal
In some countries there are new laws - or soon will be - forcing the company to recall certain products, if customers need to dispose of them. This may include appliances and products with hazardous or potentially hazardous to be.
The use of third parties, such as a stopgap
Overall, the reverse logistics channels are less crowded and more ways of doing things need to be reviewed. Currently, some largeto forward the company with the smooth logistics systems, are complex but dodging the question entirely, and employs third parties to deal with returns. So you can continue as if
nothing has changed to not having to worry about filling the outward and return with these products. With third parties is OK as a short-term palliative. It allows a breathing space, and isolated the add-on cost of reverse logistics. Through things in this way, companies can integrate with their reverse logistics in Septembercurrent logistics lessons learned forward through their third-party partners. Third parties are well to the movement of goods, the management specialist and is in particular a system of products that require controlled disposal and special license, but in the long term, it makes more sense economically to take a holistic approach to trade, regardless of which direction where is traveling. The reason for this is that the same cars and staff can move inThe goods in both directions. It 's just that the systems must be updated. If not, then you end up with logistics, where the tail wags the dog. Logistics is built around movement. The product should not be moved to the dictates of the system. This is not logical and can not be illogical logistics, right?
Take goods to be disposed of. Most goods that are destined for disposal will contain the items that have value to sell orreused as components in new products. If a company such goods in the first place would certainly be delivered economically viable to recover the components of the items for disposal, rather than see it sold cheaply. Here the use of third party is made available disbursement could eventually be seen as an unnecessary overhead. If the goods originate in a factory and need to work to pick up the pieces recovered again because there is a need for a return of third parties by customers, the stripThe parties and then send the parts to the factory. Sure, the production environment in a factory is the perfect place to do all the work. those who can make the goods the best judge of what the parties can and can not be reused.
Reverse Logistics is a growth of almost every aspect in the supply chain. Those who embrace this fact and build reverse flows in their systems, the winners will be.
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