Strategic logistics planning
A company can use different means to determine its operational logistics structures - e.g., overarching corporate, business and functional strategy.
Overarching corporate strategyBusiness strategies
Functional strategy
Logistics network planning
External parameters place different demands on efficient networks. Logistics networks can be adjusted to these demands with the help of different tools.
Basic structures of logistics networksFundamental commercial-geographic questions
Flow of goods in logistics networks
Degree of centralization in warehousing
Postponement
Supply chain management (SCM)
Modern corporate networks act across company borders in so-called supply chains, optimizing the flow of goods and information along the entire value chain in the process.
The concept of supply chain managementNetwork levels in the supply chain
SCM in action
Management of global logistics
As a result of globalization, the increasing international activities of many companies create new challenges for logistics. It takes a sophisticated strategy to master them.
International logistics strategiesGeneral conditions
Country-specific conditions
Financial aspects
Logistics organization
The organizational positioning of logistics depends on its importance within a company - e.g., centrally under the management or decentrally within individual business divisions.
Logistics in a functional organizationLogistics in a divisional organization
Logistics controlling
Like any other functional area of a company, logistics must also be covered by corporate controlling, with particular attention paid to the special features of logistics.
Definition of logistics controllingKey indicators in logistics controlling
Balanced scorecard
Process-based cost accounting
Budgeting
