An analytical approach on the consequence of Cloud Computing for Logistics Management

This paper analyzes the analytical approach of cloud computing on logistics management by studying various literatures on academic logistics journals, practitioner journals and various books. The paper sought to explain the theoretical background of articulating effective logistics information system in any industrial outfit. This is predicated on the fact that logistics is “the process of strategically managing the acquisition, movement and storage of materials, parts and finished inventory (and the related information flows) through the organization and its marketing channel in such a way that the profitability can be optimized”. Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology that provides large amount of computing and data storage capacity to its users. With the performance of cloud computing in terms of overhead of allocation and deallocation of virtual computing resources, and network communications, we can rely on cloud computing. In this work, we studied that the use of cloud computing, to understand the performance and usage cost. In this study we have analyzed the various security risks as cloud based services allow user to create and share virtual relations with others. This paper explores the general security risks associated with using virtual server from the public catalogs of cloud service providers.