Procurement logistics transportation management : An application towards to automotive industry

Firms have to decrease the costs and increase the value to their costumers if they want to alive today highly competitive environment. Begins from nature and goes through the end customer Supply Chains can help the firms to achieve this destiny. Recently in business environment, the competition is not only between the individual firms but also the Networks of the companies. Therefore, the Supply Chains of the firms has a critical role in their success. In the heavy competitive atmosphere, delivering the exact good to the exact location on the exact time in the most efficient and productive way brings the enterprises important competitive advantage. At this point, the concept of logistics is important. Logistics is defined as the planning, implementation and control activities of the efficient two-way delivery and storage of the materials, services and information flow in the supply chain spreading from the start point of the raw materials to the final point where products are consumed. The activities that the enterprises perform by using outsourcing in their logistics activities are called Third Party Logistics. Third Party Logistic firms are the supportive members that simply provide resources, knowledge, utilities or assets for the primary members of the supply chain. The benefits that supply chains can achieve from Third Party Logistic services are to concentrate on core competencies , capabilities and logistics management, improve overall performance, find global solutions, enable entry to mew markets, control costs, investments and services, improve customer satisfaction, improve flexibility and find more cost efficient service solutions. Key Words: 1) Supply, 2) Logistics Management, 3) Lojistics Functions, 4) Milk-Run, 5) MAN Türkiye.