Typical logistics questions from functions in the organisation

Manufacturing

• Plant Utilisation
• Plant location
• Increasing capacity
• Batch size/frequency
• Changeovers
• Raw Material (RM), Work In Progress (WIP) & Finished Goods (FG) stock management

General Management

• Merger/aquisition impacts
• Merge network costs
• Combined network synergies

Sales

• Capacity to sell
• Type of business to sell
• Cost of new business
• Territory boundaries

Procurement

• Inventory versus service
• Supplier direct vs stock
• Range and diversity vs cost
• Factory gate pricing
• Shared inbound logistics

Finance

• Logistics cost saving
• Logistics cost drivers
• 3PL vs in-house logistics

Customer service

• Customer SLA's
• Marketing leading service
• Where to put call centre

Logistics

• Logistics trade offs
• Storage network
• Transport network
• Inventory deployment
• Load balancing
• In house vs 3rd party
• Peak network capacity
• Depot boundaries
• Postponement

Further discussion on these questions