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What is Logistics and Supply Chain?
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Your shirt may be from the Phillipines; your computer keyboard from China, and the grapes you had for lunch from Chile. Logistics professionals import and export products globally at the lowest possible cost, so we can all benefit.
Trucks,trains, airplanes, river barges and ocean vessels bring those products to us - and logistics is what makes it happen.
No matter the industry, food, manufactured goods or medicine, most companies have logistics. When someone needs to move items or people from point A to point B, logistics is involved. Even when objects are simply stored, logistics is involved.
Types of companies you might work for:
- Air transportation companies
- Barge companies
- Freight brokers
- Government agencies
- Hospitals/health systems
- Import/export firms
- Manufacturers
- Parcel delivery companies
- Railroad companies
- Retail distributiors/chains
- Trucking companies
- Warehousing companies