The logistics sector works across a variety of supply chains, each offers varied and challenging career opportunities. Logistics plays an active role in each of the supply chains listed below. It is involved all the way through the manufacturing process, delivering raw materials to the factory ready for assembly, transferring the completed products to the distribution centre and then onward delivery to the shop / showroom.
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Automotive - ranges from delivering sheet metal to the manufacturer for the car panels through to delivery a brand new car to the showroom.
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Chemicals - includes the transportation of all hazardous products such as petrol, diesel and oil.
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Clothing & Footwear - includes transporting the cotton from the fields, fabrics to the designers and finished clothing to the shop on the high street.
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Construction - including both the materials and heavy plant equipment required during the construction process of any building.
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Electronics & Electrical - from delivering raw materials to product electrical components right through to finished products such as TVs, fridges and washing machines.
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Food & Drink - this incorporates the movement of all food & drink right from manufacture / production through to the the supermarket or even to your own front door.
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Furniture & Furnishings - from raw materials right through to the finished piece of furniture being delivered to the shop.
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Paper & Printing - from collecting the trees from lumberjacks right through to delivering the newspaper.
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Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare - starting with trasnporting the raw materials right through to the numerous products required to service your local hospital or equip your local chemist with supplies.
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Third Party - this involves one company carrying out the logistics operation for another company and could be across any of the other supply chains.
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Utilities - includes the transportation of all utilities such as gas, electricity and water.
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Military - involves the movement of any armed forces equipment.
