GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND INTERNATIONAL CHANNEL DEVELOPMENT

• Main Author: Fani Mateska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: KD Mapro 2015-01-01
• Series: Journal of Process Management. New Technologies
• Subjects: Global logistics; global supply chain; trends; distribution; process
• Online Access: http://www.japmnt.com/images/Volume%203/Issue%201/12.%20GLOBAL%20LOGISTICS%20AND%20INTERNATIONAL%20CHANNEL%20DEVELOPMENT.pdf

Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are relatively new terms that emerged in recent years concerning to be modern terms compared to the more traditional fields of production, marketing or finance. By opening new stores globally, from which to source products, by increasing the number of retailers, wholesalers, agents and distributers in the global supply chain, as well as easing global transport, these events dramatically changed the way business looked at managing its physical operations. Therefore, this paper offers deep understanding of the main characteristics, new trends and evaluation of global logistics which referred to as global supply chain management. Global logistics plays critical role in the growth and development of world trade, and in the integration of business operations on a worldwide scale. This paper also emphasizes the differences between traditional and global supply chains, by explaining several alternative types of distribution channels that are part of the international distribution channels. Also, real world examples of global organizations and their global supply chain management processes are accurately described in the end of this paper.