Article | REF: AG5023 V1

Logistics and Supply-Chain Management facing major challenges

Author: Jacques COLIN

Publication date: March 10, 2017

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3. Three structural imperatives

3.1 Cross-functional approach: distribution, production and purchasing

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3.1.1 Phase 1: optimize logistics operations specific to flow functions

Before the advent of any logistics approach, the flow functions, responsible for the physical flow of goods directly linked to their core business, carried out their mission by always including a search for solutions to their own logistics problems. For example :

  • the retail industry delivered to its customers by optimizing its...

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