Logistics Operations and Legislation: Customer Requirements Analysis

This report delves into logistics management, examining how logistics operations align with customer requirements and discussing the relevant legislation that governs these operations. The report begins by defining logistics and its crucial role in matching the flow of goods from origin to consumption, emphasizing customer satisfaction. It explores how scaled or seasonal growth, better service implementation, and value-added delivery components help meet customer needs. Furthermore, the report addresses the legal aspects of logistics, including road, maritime, and rail transport regulations, the Union Customs Code (UCC), the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, and Incoterms. It highlights the importance of these regulations in ensuring safe and ethical operations. The report emphasizes the significance of logistics management in the manufacturing industry and the role of legislation in maintaining a safe and ethical environment, ultimately protecting company reputation and growth. References to academic sources are provided to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
ASSESSMENT TASK 1.................................................................................................................1
1.1 Discuss how logistics operations are matched to customer requirement 500.......................1
1.3 Discuss the relevant legislation that apply to logistics operations within own country.500 2
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4

ASSESSMENT TASK 1
1.1 Discuss how logistics operations are matched to customer requirement 500
Logistics is generally the detailed organizations and implementing of a complex
operation. It is the most crucial and necessary management of the flow of things between the
point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the customer needs and wants.
Overall, logistics is the matter of fact that promote can include physical items such as food,
materials etc (Bing and et.al., 2016). Logistic customer services is not interrupting the supply
chain to explore any kind of issues. It makes good environment and better advancing growth
services in order to meet the customer service. It is the most essential part of the manufacturing
industry through manager can easily identify the requirement or need of the organization and
goals. Logistic operation will help company to make better chances and growth for better
services level.
Logistic operation helps to fill the gap between customer feedback and customer service.
Employees who engaged with the services of logistics they will implement the process and better
opportunity to grow up the part oriented goals and always looking for the new method to reduce
costs and make their operations more productive (De Villiers, Nieman and Niemann, eds., 2017).
Apart from that, in order to evaluate the process of things better effective services that promote
most applying services. Overall, things are generally motivated efficient matter of growth. The
main role of the logistic management is that to maintained the logistics supply lines while
disrupting those of the enemy. Generally logistic companies' manager runs distribution facility
and handle with different shipping companies and freight brokers to ensure that distribution run
in smoother manner. Overall, this makes the better services and growth in order to meet the
needs of customers (Fernie and Sparks, 2014).
Scaled or seasonal growth: in this context sellers always revise their product or plan
according to customer needs and wants. Besides, for some seasonable products they already
maintained the stock at prior basis as per the customer demand. Better arrangement and
systematic process will help company to provide the finish goods and services in the best
outcomes level. This process lead to fulfill customer wants and achieve the best approachable
services and growth. Some following points help to meet the requirements of customers.
Better service implementation: better services and better opportunity and growth makes
better services and growth (Papadopoulos and et.al., 2017). It gives better growth implementing
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process. Overall, it brings the best approachable task oriented process or things. At the time
when buyers ask for any product and wanted to get on within set frame of time. It is the
responsibility of warehousing services to provide that particular product on time with security
socking. It brings new way to implement the best productive task.
Value added delivery component: it is the another way through logistic operation can
easily meet the needs of customer needs. Maintaining inventory in the warehouse adds value to
the customer experience. Company should kept all those essential products that required by the
customer on any basis (Schönsleben, 2016). It will help customer to get services or product
making task oriented process. Logistic management helps to keep the quality of products and
give best services to customers as according to their preference.
1.3 Discuss the relevant legislations that apply to logistics operations within own country.500
In order to take the product and services from one place to another on the basis of
customer demand and desire. Overall, logistics is the combination of supply, material
management and distribution. The focus of the logistic is that on the transformation of product
and services to the correct place. Logistic also known as Physical Distribution Management.
That helps to reduce company cost and utilize the all resources of the company (Tobescu and
Seuring, 2015). In order to take all process clearly and forwards company needs to abide all
required roles and objectives. Overall, it brings new better services and growth in order to meet
the objectives and goals of customer. Regulations and ethical environment helps to protect the
better services and growth. It also makes the proper implementing process or task making goals.
Company organization needs to abide all regulations and legislation wherever they
offering their services and products (Bing and et.al., 2016). In order to keep the environment safe
and secure company should follows some following rules and regulations such as Road transport,
maritime transport, rail transport. The main function of transportation legislation is that to secure
transported from one location to another. Company should adopt all transport regulations in
order to secure their own product and material. It is called silk legislation under which listed road
and maritime regulations. Apart from that, there are giving some
Union Customs Code (UCC) : this regulation came into implement on October 30, 2013. It is
the most necessary law that has to be taken by the logistic companies. It is the key component in
terms of ongoing actions to modernise EU actions.
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International convention for the safety of life at sea: it is the another regulation and law that
helps to control the overall process and makes better services and growth (Laws and regulations
in logistics, 2018). This law specially made up from ship transportation under which provides
better services and growth channel. Overall, it makes better services and advancement growth
channel. It is the for merchant ships.
Incoterms: it is the international trade legislation which will be very much difficult without
incoterms. This legislation specially made for import export services.
Overall, legislation and laws will help companies to take care for its products. Logistic
management is the most essential term for manufacturing industry that totally affect the overall
process of things (Schönsleben, 2016). Apart from that, overall, logistics help company to
maintained the proper taking care of things that is the most essential for the organisations.
Overall, legislation and laws are very much essential for maintaining the proper ethical
environment in the organisation. That also helps to protect the company reputation and growth.
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Schönsleben, P., 2016. Integral logistics management: operations and supply chain management
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Tobescu, C. and Seuring, S., 2015. Internal Enablers for the Implementation of Sustainable
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