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Nouns: Activity, Service, Materials, Operation, Production, Opportunities, System

Inbound logistics involves receiving, storing, and distributing raw materials for manufacturing. It covers activities like transportation, inventory, warehousing, and materials handling to bring goods from suppliers to plants. Receiving and storing raw materials is important for manufacturers, though smaller companies often do so within plants while larger ones have separate facilities. Delays in receiving materials can impact production efficiency and costs. Inbound logistics offered as an outsourced service provides benefits like reducing costs, inventory levels, and time to market through supply chain agility. Effective services consolidate shipments, control quality, and provide supply chain visibility.

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Nouns: Activity, Service, Materials, Operation, Production, Opportunities, System

Inbound logistics involves receiving, storing, and distributing raw materials for manufacturing. It covers activities like transportation, inventory, warehousing, and materials handling to bring goods from suppliers to plants. Receiving and storing raw materials is important for manufacturers, though smaller companies often do so within plants while larger ones have separate facilities. Delays in receiving materials can impact production efficiency and costs. Inbound logistics offered as an outsourced service provides benefits like reducing costs, inventory levels, and time to market through supply chain agility. Effective services consolidate shipments, control quality, and provide supply chain visibility.

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INBOUND LOGISTICS

Before reading the text check the meaning of the Key Words in the dictionary.
Nouns: activity, service, materials, operation, production, opportunities, system,
agility(gyvybingumas), storage, inventory, shipment, freight, cargo, area, quality, facility,
delay, compliance, procedure, visibility, efficiency(kokybė, efektyvumas).
Verbs: to receive, to store, to affect, to distribute, to manufacture, to bring, to arrive, to
maintain, to take place, to set back, to cost, to reduce, to supply, to eliminate, to ship, to
pick, to trace, to consolidate, to collect, to analyze, to provide
Inbound Logistics involves the activities of receiving, storing, and distributing raw materials
for use in production. It is an integral element of business operations for a manufacturing
firm. Inbound logistics services cover all activities required to bring goods from a sourcing
location to a warehouse or production plant, such as transportation, inventory, warehousing
and materials handling. Receiving and storing raw materials is a big responsibility for
manufacturers. Big companies may have separate facilities for storing raw materials. Smaller
companies often maintain receiving areas within the plant, in which the manufacturing
process takes place. The organizational element of the materials receiving process is
important because it significantly affects the efficiency, with which staff can distribute
materials. Delays in this process can set back production and cost the company money or
opportunities.
Inbound Logistics is an outsourced service, which offers customers the following benefits:
identification and reduction of inbound costs; lower inventory levels of both packaging and
ingredients; increase supply chain agility so that new products or promotions can be brought
to market faster, etc. The advantages of the effective inbound logistics service are as follows:
 Consolidation of goods prior to shipping that helps eliminate costly part shipments.
 Local representation to affect customs compliance procedures in the country of
origin.
 Product picking and packing prior to export.
 Temporary storage prior to shipping.
 Product quality control.
 Mapping the supply chain and analyzing the cost elements on a comparable basis.
 Managing the transport and freight forwarding of inbound materials and finished
product.
 Use of state-of-the-art IT systems to provide full visibility of transit throughout the
supply chain.

UNDERSTANDING THE MAIN POINTS

1. What does the term Inbound Logistics imply?


2. Is Inbound Logistics an outsourced service?
3. What activities does Inbound Logistics involve?
4. What benefits does Inbound Logistics offer to customers?
5. What may significantly affect the efficiency, with which staff can distribute raw
materials?
2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. Inbound Logistics involves the activities of manufacturing finished products.
2. Inbound logistics services cover all activities required to bring goods from a
sourcing location to a warehouse or production plant.
3. Receiving and storing raw materials is a big responsibility only for large
manufacturers.
4. Delays in this process can set back production and cost the company money or
opportunities
5. Small companies usually have separate facilities for storing raw materials.
6. Huge companies typically maintain receiving areas within the same plant, in which
manufacturing takes place.
7. The organizational element of the materials receiving process is important because
it significantly affects the efficiency, with which staff can distribute materials.
8. Inbound Logistics is an outsourced service.
9. Inbound Logistics offers customers many benefits.
10. These benefits includes, among other things, identification and reduction of
inbound costs as well as lower inventory levels of both packaging and ingredients.
11. The advantages of the effective inbound logistics service include consolidation of
goods prior to shipping, product picking and packing prior to export, etc.
12. Consolidation of goods prior to shipping helps logisticians eliminate costly part
shipments.

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