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发表于 30-9-2004 23:08:15|来自:新加坡
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<P><B>Logistics</B>.:The process of designing and managing the supply chain in the wider sense. The chain can extend from the delivery of supplies for manufacturing, through the management of materials at the plant, delivery to warehouses and distribution centers, sorting, handling, packaging and final distribution to point of consumption. Derived from Greek logistikos (to reason logically), the word is polysemic. Nineteen century military referred to it as the art of combining all means of transport, revictualling and sheltering of troops. A more fitted meaning consists in the set of all operations required for goods (material or nonmaterial) to be made available on markets or to specific destinations. With increasing multimodal and containerized freight transport that complexify the coordination itineraries, logistics rely heavily on highly performing computerized information management implements. The term also applies to passenger transportation. </P> |
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