Logistics Strategies and Tools

New trends like the development of navigation, information & communication technologies permanently change the possibilities, the goals and the forms of logistics strategies. Today companies can hardly succeed without taking the broad range of logistics strategies into account. Logistics strategies are also used for the company's positioning in the market. The support of upand downstream members along the complete supply chain is very important. The successful introduction of a logistics strategy in a company requires methodical approach for the selection of the appropriate solutions. Choosing the right solution requires an overview of the wide range of possible management instruments. To give the reader an overview of selected management tools and logistics tools to improve processes, some of them are presented and are explained in this paper. The combination of the VRIO model, the identification technologies types and the characterization of resources allows the definition of logistics strategies, standard procedures and sets of logistics activities.