| | | Manifest of the KM and Logistics Meeting
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The meeting of April 29, 2004 on the question |
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Knowledge Management, an effective tool for the Logistician? |
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The manifest of the Call for Papers was as follows: |
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Within this context, we understand KM as the art of the management of the knowledges, know-hows, skills and competencies of personnel, customers, partners and furnishers of the virtual enterprise, improving the effectiveness of the total system methodically. |
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Logistics is the art and science of management, engineering and technical activities concerned with requirements, design, and supplying and maintaining resources needed to support objectives, plans and operations. |
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The definition is conceptual. Depending on the context, Logistics will be identified as commercial logistics - distribution, reverse logistics; environmental logistics; material handling and transportation logistics; manufacturing or industrial logistics; forest logistics; healthcare logistics; systems logistics; military and defense logistics; among others. |
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Conventional logistic functions are: plan, procure, transport, supply, maintain and dispose. |
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Conventional logistic process are: requirements determination, acquisition, distribution, conservation and elimination. |
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Material Flow Documenting, Data Flow Management, Exploitation and Management of Fact and Knowledge Databases within the Virtual Enterprise, Numerical Calculations (Quantitative Methods, Modeling, Simulating and Planning) are among the bases of Applied Logistics.
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Knowledge Management offers a large palette of networking-oriented tools (text mining, content management, expertise localization, communities support and administration). |
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Contributions will address both theory issues and lessons learned. |
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Any KM applications on any logistics functions or process in any business can be described. The only condition is to present an innovative or pedagogical case. |
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As exemples that are absolutely not limiting, communications could address the following topics(among a lot of other ones): |
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| . | collecting and analysing technical feedback; |
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| . | keeping some know-hows in memory (preserving the future of a system); |
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| . | transmitting some know-hows (building a support capability on the design experiment); |
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| . | offering the frame of a best expertise community to logisticians; |
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| . | supporting best practices community for logistics services. |
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last update: April 30, 2004 |
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