Since professor A. W. Shaw used the term "Logistics" for the first time in 1912, logistics have been changed into various figures mixed with commercial factors in point of viewpoint, shape, meaning. Especially, noticing the fact that a definition of l...
Since professor A. W. Shaw used the term "Logistics" for the first time in 1912, logistics have been changed into various figures mixed with commercial factors in point of viewpoint, shape, meaning. Especially, noticing the fact that a definition of logistics has had its meaning to be wide in proposition and field, whenever it went through particular alteration course, we can't overlook the question "Can we still define the accurate meaning of logistics?" Anyway, nowadays the definition of logistics include action of marketing, transport, storage, loading, packing, movement, and even the field of information act related, and the causes varied like this are logistic time-shortening, cost-reduction for ensuring of competitive advantage. Moreover, the environment of logistics was changed into the shapes of horizontal division, simplification of material resources security, phenomenon of blocking and globalization for ensuring this competitive advantage, ultimately the objectives of logistics were decided by two sides, service improvement for customers and economic operation of cost.
The development of communication system and the accomplishment of consolidation of computer and all sorts of systems makes quickness, accuracy, maximization in quantity, and the establishment of outlook, production and sales plan by marketing information of multiple articles intended for more wide levels of customers is possible to us, and also easily outputting complicated logistics cost, we have come to promote rationalization of logistics.
However, there happened huge cost in all kinds of organizations and management for logistics, and logistics standardization and logistics-sharing system appeared to correspond to these matters, and it has become a expanding trend gradually among international countries, same type of industries, different type of industries, firms by standardization and unitization. There are several conditions for the success of logistics unitization, and they may be desire for sharing, agreement, opportunity, environmental situation, administrative support. If these conditions would be activated through negotiation, enormous innovations would result through overall society.
In this study, under the presumption these conditions had been satisfied I mentioned the unitization of logistics.
We can expect the effects of concrete logistics unitization as follows ; reduction of logistics cost, improvement of loading percentage on transport, decrease of non-transport percentage by truck, shortening of movement, non-need for inspection of goods, reduction of facility investment, accuracy of charge system, simplification of calculation, relief of trafic congestion by one line transport system, rstionalization of business process, reduction of environmental contamination, reduction of social cost, improvement of logistics work productivity, improvement of financial status on logistics investent, improvement of efficiency by information system, maintenance and improvement of logistics service. But there are also serious problems as much as the big effect to activate logistics. Like to have been already written, there are problems such as difficulty of composition on participating company, differences in business information system, heterogeneity of firm culture, difficulty in negotiation among firms, matter of profitability by logistics system, keeping secrets, difficulty of service distinction, problem on the transport toll, and so on. But though there are a lot of troublesomeness, logistics unitification have been showing gradual progress, it is because that firms(for exemple, manufacturer, distributor, transporter)are raising the understanding on necessity of unitification step by step. There are successful propositions for firms as follows ; activation of joint transportation, establishment of joint logistics company, constrution of trustful relation among firms, buildup of business competitiveness by positive support on competent logistics firms, supplement of regulations and related laws on operational fund for business basis, appointment and support on wholesale and retail firms, standardization of internal equipment for logistics among companies, building of logistics facilities, administrative support, application of cross-talking form in transportation, establishment of joint transport system, relief of pass and parking restriction in fixed zone, and at the end buildup of cooperation system among distributors, manufactors, transporters. If the logistics system would be extended to this way, epoch-making logistics system breaking from existent system would be accomplished, and it is clear that this would make our many pressing problems solved out.
Yet the understanding on joint logistics isn't in high level. But refered above, I expect that activation of joint logistics by increase of understanding would be not so long to be achieved.
Therefore, from now on I anticipate that the way of logistics system would be renovated to more shape than now. Hopely this study would be useful to the purpose and many progressive studies to be achieved.