Transportation The Key Player In Logistics Management

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  • G. Santosh Kumar
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Transportation is on wheels mostly .The wheel is everywhere on all our cars, trains, planes, machines, wagons, and most factory and farm equipment. What could we move without wheels? But as important as the wheel is as an invention, we don't know who exactly made the first wheel. But this invention led to the movement of goods from one place to another to transform into some usable product or any in the logistics chain. The application of management techniques and principles improves the moving, delivery, service, operation costs and the usage of facilities. Transportation takes a key part in the operation of logistic. Reviewing the present condition, a strong system needs an unambiguous outline of logistics and a proper transport implements and techniques to bond the producing procedures.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014