Assignment:
Have you even heard of Logistics Engineering before this week? After reading about Logistics Engineering in this week's lesson, do you feel this truly adds value to Logistics?
Respond 100 words to student dustin Will 250 words responds:
Hello Class,
Figured I get this week started and attempt to answer the question for week 1. Please let me know what you think and comment and discuss below.
Logistics engineering is defined as a science per say or organization of products, transportation, forecasting, procurement, storage, inventories, distribution and all facets of a logistics process. It is applying an intricate level of knowledge and skills in all categories of logistics including the forward and reverse processes of logistics. Logistics engineering overall has an umbrella of departments and processes that can fall under it. The definitions are labeled as the procurement process, transportation process, inventory and storage processes and distribution of materials and manufactured goods.
Logistics engineering is used to find the best system design and capabilities to ensure things are all functioning properly and at an acceptable and efficient costs. Logistics engineering has to start at the beginning of a process to ensure the entire engineered plan is performing and systematically flowing in the right format. The intent of this processes is to help drive down costs by performance analyses that help establish performances benchmarks that help to mitigate performances issues within the intricate process of the logistics process.
To compare the two different definitions, it is important to define system engineering. System engineering is the process of bringing a system into an efficient operation and supporting the system throughout its duration of use. This means the consistency of the successful application and availability of the system's design and platform. Logistics engineering relates to the system engineering by its analysis of failures and repairs of system downtime. The mitigation efforts in design shortfalls helps determine the best factors for consistency and reliability in the system design, whether it's either logistics engineering or system engineering.
Blanchard, B. S., & Blyler, J. E. (2016). System engineering management.
Taylor, G. D. (2009). Introduction to logistics engineering. Boca Raton: CRC Press.