Question

Logistics industry is one of the leading industries that uses the Information Technologies extensively. By using the latest technology gives the companies and the countries competitiveness. _____1____ are the software systems that meet the planning or operational needs of each of the companies in the supply chain and can work integrated with other related systems within and outside the company. The system contains three parts: Order Management System, Warehouse Management System, and Transportation Management System. ____2____ is the interface of the logistics information system. It is the first screen that meets the customer, and connects the external and internal entities within the business. The second important part is the ____3_____ which manage the inventory and provides the real-time data of the distribution systems. The last part of the system is ______4____ to provide the selection of the transportation mode, consolidation of the Cargo, vehicle routing, and shipment tracking. There are many Technologies used in the logistics iindustry. The logistics companies send and receive official documents by using _____5_____ systems. The two parties (sender and receiver) maket he document transaction securely by using the same protocol. The second technology is the ____6___ technologies which provide data storing in a remote system that the users can reach the data from any computer by connecting username and password. The Global Positioning System (GPS) finds the location of trucks, containers, goods to provide real-time data to the logistics managers in order to manage the transportation management. ___7____ is one of the oldest Technologies in the information system which reads and stores the data from a line or square-code system to make the transcation more accurate and faster. ____8_____ are the areas where the products in the supply chain are deployed in order to protect, stock and deliver them to the relevant places in the most efficient way and they are subsidiary companies designed according to the product type. This term is used interchangable with distribution center and customes warehouse: ____9_____ are logistics warehouses for storage of products, value added operations, handling, packaging and shipment to store in a very short time period to send the Cargo different directions. General purpose is the consolidating the Cargo in order to get the benefits of ___10___. ______11______ are the areas operated under a customs administration in line with the permission granted by the Undersecretariat of Customs, where the owner is obliged to be a legal entity or institution, in which non-nationalized imported goods and export goods can be placed. MEÜ.EÖ.FR-212/01 Sayfa 2/2 Yayın Tarihi : 08.04.2011 ____12___ is the movement of an object from one place to another.There are two benefits of this logistics function: ___13___ benefits occur if there is a difference between where the product is produced and where it is consumed, distribution fulfills this need by providing space benefit; and ____14_____ benefits whcih occurs when there is a difference between the production period and consumption period. The basic transportation modes are truck, seaways, railways, airways, and ___15___. But most of the Cargo is transported via different transportation modes. _____16_____ transportation is the transportation of loads without handling by using two or more modes of transportation through the same loading container or the same road. When with the Cargo handling, it is called _____17___ transportation. Finally, _____18_____ transportation is a form of transportation where the long leg of the transportation is made using the railway, inland waterways or seaway, and the highway is used as short as possible in the starting and ending legs. There are three major points in determining the type of transportation mode: ____19___ is the cargoes are delivered to the destination legally and in the shortest possible time; ___20____ means that it is delivered to the ground in the contract period and without compromising quality every time; and flexibility expresses the ability to make changes before and after transport. These are the major functions of logistics. To make a perfect logistics system, these functions must be connected each other. Kullanabileceğiniz Kelimeler:

Speed

Logistics Information Systems

Transportation Management System

Radio-Frequency Identification System (RFID

) Pipelines

Warehouse Management System

Consistency

Order Management System

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI

) Warehouses

Transportation

Place

Multimodal

Combined

cloud

Distribution Centers

The economies of scale

Time

Intermodal

Customes Warehouses

Answer 1

For this question, I've given the answers blank wise.

1. Logistics Information System

2. Order Management System

3. Warehouse Management System

4. Transportation Management System

5. Electronic Data Interchange

6. Cloud

7. RFID

8. Warehouse

9. Customer warehouse

10. Economies of scale

11. Distribution centres

12. Transportation

13. Place

14. Time

15. Pipelines

16. Multimodal

17. Intermodal

18. Combined

19. Speed

20. Consistency

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