Monday, August 16, 2010
“intext:’mobotix M10
Logistics: is the process of planning, operation and control of the movement and storage of goods, services and information that is made in order to meet customer requirements at the lowest possible total cost.
Supply Chain Management: It can be defined as the overall strategy jointly responsible for managing the functions, processes, activities and actors that make up the supply chain. In this sense, we expect that each function, process, activity or company to stop behaving in isolation, trying to reach its targets, it is the agents that make up the supply chain to engage in a common project in order to progress to the team toward common goals.
Inventory Turnover: is a basic concept whose knowledge is essential in order to improve logistics management company. It can be defined as: Number of times the stock has been renewed for a given process over a period of time.
Coverage: Coverage is a concept closely related to rotación.Concretamente is a concept opposite to the rotation measured in time, it can be defined as:
* The time that stock can meet the needs of future processes without replacement.
of Stock Ownership Costs: The possession of large amounts of stock, in addition to impair the turnover of materials and products, which in turn slows the return of investment supported by them, can result in the increase of the following types of costs:
* Need for greater amount of m2 to store the products.
* Increased amount of infrastructure (shelving, forklifts ...)
* Increased need management and handling of products, with a consequent increase in staff costs.
* Increased the amount of insurance. * Risks
obsolete products during their long storage period.
* derivative financial opportunity costs in the amount of dead money invested in stocks.
A second drawback to maintain high stock levels is that they can act as a shelter or hiding the inefficiencies that exist in the company. That is, high stock levels can clog things that are wrong with the organization.
Safety stock: The volume of goods to meet demand fluctuations, inaccurate estimates, delays in receiving orders or incidents in production. In other words, the safety stock is the level of additional inventory reserves "just in case."
Pallet: is a platform consisting of two floors connected by beams, which can be handled by forklift or pallet forks and allows the grouping of merchandise on its surface, thus constituting a cargo unit. Although different types and forms, the most widespread is the Europallet, whose measures are 1.20 m long x 0.80 m wide. Use allows widespread benefits such as standardization of transport or storage space maximization.
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