logistics
Logistics is formed of Ardam Global Express Logistics International Freighting Warehousing Distribution.
Logistics provides clients with any kind of import export operations, road, air, sea and rail freight, customs clearance, insurance and logistics services with a professional and integrated approach.
Specializing in sensitive, time-critical freight that requires a high-degree of personal service.
Ardam Global Express listens to its customers and gains a thorough understanding of their requirements. It is that knowledge that allows Ardam Global Express to design and implement a solution that rationalizes the supply chain process thus optimizing costs and efficiency.
logistics Origins and definition
The prevalent view is that the term logistics comes from the late 19th century: from French logistique (logermeans to lodge). Others attribute a Greek origin to the word: λόγος, meaning reason or speech; λογιστικός, meaning accountant or responsible for counting.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines logistics as “the branch of military science relating to procuring, maintaining and transporting material, personnel and facilities.” However, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines logistics as “the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies,” and the Oxford Dictionary on-line defines it as “the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.” As such, logistics is commonly seen as a branch of engineering that creates “people systems” rather than “machine systems.”
According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (previously the Council of Logistics Management) logistics is the process of planning, implementing and controlling procedures for the efficient and effective transportation and storage of goods including services and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements and includes inbound, outbound, internal and external movements.
Academics and practitioners traditionally refer to the terms operations or production management when referring to physical transformations taking place in a single business location (factory, restaurant or even bank clerking) and reserve the term logistics for activities related to distribution, that is, moving products on the territory. Managing a distribution center is seen.
As pertaining to the realm of logistics since, while in theory the products made by a factory are ready for consumption they still need to be moved along the distribution network according to some logic, and the distribution centre aggregates and processes orders coming from different areas of the territory. That being said, from a modelling perspective, there are similarities between operations management and logistics, and companies sometimes use hybrid professionals, with for ex. “Director of Operations” or “Logistics Officer” working on similar problems. Furthermore, the term supply chain management originally refers to, among other issues, having a global vision in of both production and logistics from point of origin to point of production. All these terms may suffer from semantic change as a side effect of advertising.