In this Issue
Logistics by Logisticians
Variables not Unknowns
Logistics ABC costing
a 4PL Newsletter from Imdad Logistics
Issue No.1 March 2014 www.imdadlogistics.com
LOGIST ICS by LOGISTICIANS
Logistics Operations Management is a field totally
independent
from
General
Operations
Management. Jumbling this field with all its subspecializations in a general practice sock would
be trivial. When procurement, sourcing, freight,
shipping, warehousing and beyond are being
juggled, the oddity transpire if those specialties
are entrusted to a generalist.
Yes, Logistics should only be handled by
logisticians.
Case in point; consider Logistics Business Plans,
a deal sometimes impudently passed to a
financial analyst. Think how all market,
operational and financial data, gathered for the
sound construction of the plan, being vastly
interlinked, industry specific and conveying to
crucial decisions, will turn into speculations if not braced by a logistics professional.
The same goes for logistics systems, when designed or implemented; the success of such endeavor definitely
pulls in only if overseen by logisticians.
Equally matching, the engineering guidelines of a logistics facility should never be endorsed if not going
together with logistics operations guidelines.
Bottom line, your company is not a learning platform for a consultant. The consultant should bring to you not
less than a huge volume of amassed personal practical expertise and all the world’s innovations of the
industry.
VARIABLES not UNKNOWNS
Fear of the Unknown is the strongest kind of
fears.
But the good thing is that, in advanced math,
Variables are not Unknowns.
Variables submit to a certain logic that rules
changes and consequently can be manipulated
and controlled. However, Unknowns escape all
rules and controls. Unknowns should be feared,
while Variables are our daily bread and butter.
Turn your Unknowns into Variables.
Map your operational variables and define your