the Lombardic Association Shippers and Haulers has started the publication of a "Course of Logistics and Transports"



The ALSEA, the Lombardic Association Shippers and Haulers, have started the publication of a work in three volumes from the title "Course of Logistics and Transports", published from Hoepli Milan, with the scope to overwhelm a gap in the Italian publishing panorama that draft the topics of the logistics, proposing a text that speaks about logistics in simple way, directed and didascalico and that is turned not to the logistic ones in career, but to the young people that for study or deepening need to comprise all the aspects subtended to the logistic word.

The new work is ready for being adopted gives beyond 60 technical colleges besides the athenaeums that offer a course of Logistics. The objective is that to return to capacity of every student the professional competences that afferiscono to the wide sphere of the logistics. In fact the logistic word often is bound together to adjectives that of it determine the application context: business, logistic logistics distributive or commercial (than takes care mostly of the phase of distribution), internal logistics or of factory (that it inside regards handling of the materials of the company), external logistics and more. Being addressed mainly to neophytes of the matter, the language used intentionally is simplified and which supported by an essential glossary of terms and acronyms.

The first volume (elements of base, technical solutions and operating models), by Fabrizio Dallari, leaving from the history and the definition of logistics in the business contexts, analyzes the peculiarities of the logistic process in various industrial fields. The beginning point is relative to the planning of a cargo unit, is worth saying the packing necessary in order to enliven the goods according to the means of handling that agree to use in stock and of the type of goods. Secondarily the problem of the distribution of the produced ones in a logistic net to the aim is faced to reduce the total costs of delivery to the final customers. In the central section the topic is faced key of the first volume, represented from the organization of the operating processes and from the disposition of the spaces in stock, in order then to close with the process of preparation of the orders customer who typically represents the more onerous activity in the warehouse processes.

The numerous examples and application cases help the readers in characterizing the variable ones to take in consideration for the choice of localization of a warehouse and its dimensioning, in identifying the several functional areas of a warehouse, in choosing the means of handling inside of the warehouse and in estimating the various solutions of storage.

The text makes use of a graphic design centralized on the didactic effectiveness and the facility of consultation, with the evidenziazione of the definitions, the concepts key and the more meaningful arguments inside of the several paragraphs. The didactic apparatus that constantly accompanies the discourse of the matter is very rich and previews examples, images drawn from concrete cases in various dealt industrial fields, and practices, with solutions step by step.