Logistics And Logistics

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Even the most advanced marketing strategies may fail if they will not be supported by appropriate logistics activities. The fact that the product is defined with the best features of its own, attractive price and well promoted is no longer sufficient. These are undoubtedly important factors but it will be difficult to sell this product without finding it on the shelf at the right time, in the right place at the right amount. Thus it is visible of the utility of space and time which are added values to product offered by the manufacturer, enriched by marketing but also additional logistical advantages. (Różycki, Bartosz, 2000). This essay clearly shows how marketing works with logistics, which connects them with the customer service and what makes Converse statement true and valid today.
According to Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, 2013) logistics can be defined as the process of planning, implementing, and controlling procedures for the effective and efficient transportation, storage of goods, services and information from the point of origin to the final point - customer - for the purpose of meeting consumer requirements. Armstrong and Kotler state that in today's global marketplace it became easier to sell goods and services than getting it straight to consumer. Many firms have to decide what is the best way to handle, store and transport their products or services to make it available for customers in the right assortments, at the right time and the right place. (Armstrong, Kotler, 2013) Therefore, in order to ensure proper and free movement of products or services to the customer, it is necessary to share connection with marketing.
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...ze the identity of the objectives of the logistics with the marketing objectives. Relying on the definition of marketing, presented by Phillip Kotler (Kotler, 1994) according to which marketing should be understood as delivering the right goods and services to the right people in the right places at the right time, at the right price using appropriate means of communication and promotion. Presented so far integrating logistics functions can be allocated to the marketing activity. In the opinion of J. Witkowski due to the importance of customer orientation in the business market, as well as the important role of orientation activities for the Implementation of the processes associated with delivering products to the customer hierarchy cannot be used in the relationship between marketing and logistics . Actions in these areas intertwine and are mutually complementary.

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