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Strategic Logistics Management
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71 students

Strategic Logistics Management

Effectively using logistics management rightly to gain competitive advantage
Created byEric Yeboah
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Strategies to manage your logistics
  • Proper planning and inventory forecasting
  • Ensure an efficient transportation system
  • Global third party logistics management
  • Exception logistics management
  • Role of transportation technology
  • Impact recorder inventory and logistics management
  • How to enhance operation management
  • Improving digital transformation in third party logistics management
  • Ways to improve delivery and logistics efficiency

Course content

9 sections27 lectures1h 24m total length
  • Introduction2:31
  • Introduction to logistics management2:34
  • Logistics management tips for small and medium - size business6:10

Requirements

  • No special requirements
  • Deasire to learn more about logistics

Description

Logistics management is the part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption to meet customer requirement.  When done right, supply chain and logistics management ca be a harmonious symphony of vendors, truck and warehouses. All parts work together to ensure the product is delivered undamaged, on time and to the customer. On the other hand, an incoherent, poorly planned and ineffective supply chain can potentially deal a fatal blow to the average small and medium-size company. Products lost in transit, sent to the wrong location and unexplained charges on customer receipts can all cause angst that's strong enough to push customers to the competitor.

The principal purpose of logistics is to get merchandise from one location to another. However, beyond this basic goal, you must determine what your overarching business strategy and defined your logistics goals accordingly. Do you intend to offer the best delivery times in the market? Would you want to be the one that charges the least?

What ever your target, there'll be a price to pay. The key is striking the right balance. For example, if you want faster delivery times, you'll likely need to spend above average on transportation. If you want to be the low cost provider, you'll have to identify non-core expenses to cut back on, even if this come at the price of longer lead times. Careful logistics management ensures greater customer satisfaction. Investing in the latest technology is critical for keeping your organization efficiency high. As technology improves it brings businesses new methods for streamlining logistics and completing processes faster.

Who this course is for:

  • everybody, students, logistics managers, transport officers, consultants, entrepreneurs, business people, managers, companies, marketers, researchers,consultants,business moguls etc