MEASURING LOGISTICS COSTS AND PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Outlines the many ways in which logistics management can impact on overall return on investment and, ultimately, shareholder value.
• Explain the rationale behind total cost analysis; A systematic logistics- Oriented cost accounting system and the principal requirements for an effective logistics costing system.
• Emphasizes the importance of customer profitability analysis based upon an understanding of the ‘cost – to serve’.
• Introduce the concept of direct product profitability and underlines the need to understand the customers’ logistics cost.
• Highlights the need to identify the cost drivers in the logistics pipeline and to replace traditional forms of cost allocation with more appropriate methods

FOCAL POINT

• Logistics and the bottom line.
• Logistics and shareholder value
• The concept of total cost analysis
• Logistics cost analysis
• The principles of logistics costing
• Customer profitability analysis
• Direct product profitability
• Cost drivers and activity – based costing

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