Some of the areas included in the field of Logistics:

Purchasing: set of functions associated with acquiring the goods and services that an
organization requires. It includes processes like: ordering, expediting, receiving and
fulfilling payment.

Procurement: Set of tasks ( before, during, and after) associated with buying a product
or service. From identification of needs to fulfilling of such needs.

Transportation: The movement of people, goods, and animals from one location to
another by air, rail, road, sea, cable, space, or pipeline. Transportation services are divided
into three aspects: infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transportation is very important
because it allows communication and trade between two parties

Maintenance: it is one of the main functions as it deals with the proper working of the
whole system.
Distribution
Inventory Management: Process of ordering, storing, and using a company’s
inventory, including the management of raw materials, components, finished
products, as well as warehousing and processing such items.
Stock control: (inventory control) is used to show how much stock you have at one
particular time and how you keep track of it. From raw materials to finished goods.
Storage: Proper management for preserving goods from the time of their production
or purchase till actual use. When it’s done on a large scale and in a specified manner,
it's called warehousing.
Freight forwarding: organizing shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods
from the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of
distribution.
Warehouse: commercial building used to store goods, used by manufacturers,
importers, exporters, wholesalers… Warehousing includes systematic storage of goods
and its delivery per requirement. Nowadays, private firms are turning to distribution
centers rather than warehouses.
Delivery: the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined
destination. Types: cargo (physical goods) via roads or railroads on land; shipping
lanes on the sea and airline networks in the air. Also possible pipelines, for liquid
goods, power grids, for electrical power and computer networks such as Internet or
broadcast networks for electronic information.
Carrier: a firm that provides transportation services, typically owning and operating
transportation equipment (trucking company, railroad, airline, steamship line,
parcel/express company)
Freight forwarder: (also Non-vessel operating common carrier NVOCC) a person or
company that organizes shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods from
the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of distribution.
Supplier: a person or business that provides a product or service to another entity.
Haulage contractor: a person or company whose business is transporting goods for
other by road or railway.
Courier: a person or company that takes messages, letter or parcels from one person
or place to another.
Consignee: a person something is sent to.
Customs clearance: official permission to bring goods into or take goods out of a
country. (despacho de aduana)
Bill of lading: document that shows the details of the products that are being
transported by a company.
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