Are you ready for Logistics & SCM?

Find out what makes this call of a profession so exciting for so many young people around the world.

Dubai is shaping to be the hub of the region – serving 1.5 billion people beyond its own borders.

So Logistician Without Borders (LWB) is a viable option for all Business and IT students in Dubai and UAE.

WHAT IS LOGISTICS AND WHAT DOES A CAREER IN LOGISTICS INVOLVE?
GETTING THE RIGHT PRODUCT TO THE RIGHT PLACE IN THE RIGHT QUANTITY AT THE RIGHT TIME, IN THE BEST CONDITION AND AT AN ACCEPTABLE COST IS THE CHALLENGE OF LOGISTICS. IT'S AN AREA THAT EMBRACES PURCHASING AND SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT, MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURING, INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND WAREHOUSING, DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORT, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Increasingly, too, logistics is becoming a key consideration in new product development with logistics professionals playing their part in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure products are designed with efficient supply-chain management in mind.

While logistics covers a range of functions, each with its own challenges and skills, they are all interdependent and practitioners must work together and understand the impact on the whole supply-chain to deliver results. To manage, co-ordinate and continuously improve the total supply-chain demands very high-level managerial skills and the capacity to play a key part in meeting a company's longer-term strategic objectives.

Supply-chains feed on data and depend on information sharing, especially in a global environment where speed of communication is of the essence and supply-chains grow ever more complex. Today all areas of logistics make use of information technology to process, tailor and deliver real-time information to when and where it is needed.

The ability to appraise and use IT packages and electronic communication methods has become a key competency for logistics managers, not least because, with the growing use of the Internet, the supply-chain is at the centre of some of the most exciting developments in telecommunications and electronic commerce - also known as e-commerce.

At almost every point, supply-chain operations will also have an impact on the environment. Companies must address questions such as: 'Is fuel consumption of the vehicle fleet being minimized?', 'Is the distribution centre energy efficient?', or 'Can packaging materials be reused or recycled?' The challenge is how to combine business development with a sustainable approach to the environment.