Logistics Finance

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The Logistics Finance module promotes a fundamental understanding of the costing and revenue models used to monitor, evaluate, and control modern supply chain and logistics systems. This module emphasizes the application and use of these concepts in transportation and logistics management. Within this context, the objectives for the logistics finance module include understanding:

1. Why logistics finance is important.
2. How logistics finance models are designed.
3. The variety of logistics revenue and costing models that is currently in practice.
4. The contexts in which the various applied models are efficient and effective, as well as the contexts in which certain models do not achieve results.
5. The sources of data and collection techniques necessary to use the models.
6. The history of logistics finance and the rationale of revenue versus cost based systems.
7. The strategic and functional uses of logistics finance information.
8. How to calculate basic numerical values used in the majority of models.

	English version: The Handbook of Supply Chain Costing Terrance L. Pohlen, Thomas P. Klammer, Gary Cokins CSCMP, 2009 ISBN 0982534809, 9780982534809