Total control for optimal management

With the growing significance of logistics, performance monitoring and planning in logistics are becoming increasingly important factors in a company’s success. Because logistics services are provided throughout the entire company, transparency, controllability and manageability are not easily obtained. As a result, managing all logistics activities is possible only by using comprehensive measures on all levels of a company.

Controlling, guiding, managing and regulating logistics

In general terms, controlling is considered to be support of a company’s management. In addition to the actual control, it also includes guiding, managing and regulating processes. The primary functions of controlling are information and coordination tasks [1].
Logistics controlling can be seen as the assumption of controlling responsibilities in a company’s logistics unit that support logistics management.
The primary task of logistics controlling is the provision of information-processing systems based on the management’s information needs. Of course, this information must be acquired in an efficient manner. In addition, attention must be given to specific interrelationships and coordination problems with other subdivisions of a company. With the transfer of company controlling to a company’s individual subdivisions, divisional-level controlling coordinates the managerial subsystem within this division. For this reason, the corresponding managerial subsystems have to be linked to other subdivisions in the entire system [2].

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