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Birth of the term Logistics
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Large-scale logistics activities occurred during the second world war
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Discovery of the impulse of integral logistics and focus on costs, need to increase effectiveness to obtain a reduction in total costs, which will give efficiency and effectiveness to the process
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Improvement of logistics in terms of quality and delivery times, as a result of the need of customers to obtain better attention or service and thus be able to be more competitive in the market, cost-service balance concept
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Logistics is considered a quantitative science
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Appearance of companies specialized in logistics, subcontracting of companies that are not specialists in logistics for one that would, in order to reduce costs in their operations.
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Maturation of the Logistics Inclusion of the concept just in time in the orders to achieve the optimization of manufacturing times and available resources, the idea was to meet in time and form all the internal needs of the company
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The concept of just in time is extended to the end consumer, a concept called rapid response
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Emergence of the supply chain
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Companies evolve their approach to improving relationships with their strategic clients and suppliers to establish alliances for mutual improvement
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Tendency in organizations to create high-level positions focused on supply chain.
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Development of the logistics chain from raw materials to final consumers in search of a profitable manufacturing that generates added value to its components