LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
Business logistics is an art of proper planning and management of various business activities to maintain minimal customer demand at a lower cost. These activities include storage, procurement, and inventories. Military logistics is a military branch that deals in ensuring the security of personnel by manufacturing, transportation, storing, and maintenance of security equipment. Even though both contribute towards ensuring the development in society, they have the following differences as shown in the table below.
BUSINESS LOGISTICS
MILITARY LOGISTICS
Deals in business operation that is ensuring customers satisfaction
Deals in military operations are the production of security equipment.
Involves inventories
There are no inventories
Peak period is when there is a high demand for a product and low supply.
peak period is when there is war
GOOD, FAST AND CHEAP PHILOSOPHY.
This involves coming up with products of high quality to meet customer satisfaction. The design of these products is simplified, thus reaching the customers within a short period. Designers ensure that, on coming with these products, they ensure that their prices are set to meet those of the targeted customers. Thus, this philosophy ensures coming up with products of a high standard with minimal inventories and at lower prices hence meeting the customers’ demand.
CLOSED-LOOP DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.
This is a problem-solving process which involves coming up with the desired solution. The process involves the following stages:
Defining the problem
It involves the understanding of the problem before coming up with judgments.
Generating of solutions
It is a stage that involves, collection of all data and information that might lead to solving of the problem. Such as using of questioners, reading of journals and magazines.
Analyzing of solutions
This a stage that involves scrutinizing of every solution obtained.
Decision-making process
After analyzing all the solutions, the best solution that might solve the problem is selected.
After selecting the best solution, feedback is made until the desired solution is achieved.