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Unit 2: Introduction to Logistic

6. Discuss and illustrate how performance cycle variance can be controlled. Notes
7. What is the logic of designing echeloned logistical structures? Can echeloned and direct
structures be combined?

8. Distinguish between Performance Cycle Structure and Market Distribution Performance
Cycles.
9. Write brief note on Echelon Structured Logistics.

10. Define Order management.
11. “Coordination is the backbone of overall information system architecture among value
chain participants.” Elucidate.

12. Discuss the phases included in the Integrated Logistic.
Answers: Self Assessment

1. Loger 2. Material
3. SCM 4. False
5. True 6. False
7. Inventory 8. Transportation

9. Network Design 10. True
11. True 12. False
13. Echelons 14. Consolidation

15. Strategy 16. True
17. False 18. False

2.10 Further Readings

Books Reji Ismail, Logistics Management, Excel Books, Delhi.
Ailawadi C. Sathish and Rakesh Singh, Logistics Management, Prentice Hall India,
2005
Agrawal D.K., Textbook of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, MacMillan India
Limited, 2003.

Bowersox D., Closs D., and Mixby Copper, M., Supply Chain Logistics Management,
McGraw Hill, 2002.
Ballou, Business Logistics/Supply Chain Management, Pearson Education.

Bowersox, D. J., Logistics Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.

Online links http://sta559s11.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/37766848/IntroLogistic
RegressionPengEducResearch.pdf
http://www.tree4health.org/distancelearning/sites/www.tree4health.org.
distancelearning/files/readings/intro_logistic_regress.pdf

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