Week 5 Assignment 2

I have been reading the book I purchased on Amazon called The Goal. Wow I cannot put it down! There is so much information it is overwhelming at first. The author doesn’t write it like a text book at all. Al is having trouble in his warehouse and at home, I am invested in wanting to know what happens next after each chapter. There are concepts I have not heard before when it comes to a warehouse. For example, most business people measure the success of a company by three things net profit, ROI, and cash flow. However in this book there are new concepts that relate to the SCM world; Throughput, operational expenses, and inventories. Those three things can help to determine if the business is succeeding in the goal, to make money. “Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense”(Goldratt, 1336 Kindle Edition). 

My research question is “what are logistics managers’ responsibilities”. This book and the articles I have found have been able to help me to understand more just what occurs on a day to day basis for a manager in a SCM position. My focus is still to go into depths about logistics duties and more in the warehouse setting. I feel my search skills are improving I am able to word things appropriately and weed through irrelevant information for my topic while reading enough on a specific article to know I need to keep it or not.

My article I found this week was really beneficial. “Supplying demand If you choose to take a job in logistics, what will be its demands and what rewards might you expect?”. I finally found an article that helps to seal the deal on me being extremely interested in Logistics. This article is all about informing people about the benefits and responsibilities of a person in the Logistics career. There are so many opportunities in Supply Chain Management and Logistics. As Nigel Finch puts it: "Whatever else happens, people will always need to move goods from A to B.'' Therefore there is always going to be jobs in a supply chain management position. There are lots of opportunities to gain more knowledge and experience in a wide array of careers. There article specifically states people with high energy levels do well in Logistics.

Amanda Kalil

Adams D. (2007).Supplying demand If you choose to take a job in logistics, what will be its         demands and what rewards might you expect?.The Daily Telegraph       (LONDON).SPECIAL BROADSHEET; Careers in logistics; Pg. 2

Goldratt, Eliyahu M.; Jeff Cox (2014-07-01). The Goal: A Process of Ongoing      Improvement.North River Press. Kindle Edition.