Background
Logistics Engineering (LE) represents the foundation for all ensuing logistics related project components. Over time, we have come to regard our approach as involving a broad spectrum of expertise and content that goes beyond the much-used LSA (Logistics Support Analysis) concept. Any LSA necessarily includes analysis, but we go beyond this. Our aim is to define and implement a project-specific and tailor-made system of flanking and supporting logistic measures and products in collaboration with our customers.
Analysis
Our service is initiated by a thorough analysis of a project’s specific requirements, framework and boundary conditions. This includes a balanced analysis of the details when it comes to the:
· customer's logistical requirements,
· logistically relevant parameters of the respective systems, plants and equipment,
· the operating, deployment and maintenance conditions to be forecast,
· required human resources,
· as well as the concomitant safety and environmental protection aspects.
The results obtained here determine the type and scope of the logistics services and products to be provided.
Planning
The next step in a project’s schedule is the development of a completion schedule. The terms "Integrated Logistics Support Plan" (ILSP), "Logistics Support Concept" (LSC), “Logistics Support Analysis” (LSA) plan are used here synonymously depending on the context. No matter what the name, any description regarding the planning, organization, function and content of the planned implementation of the requirements involved in logistics services must now be specified in close consultation with the customer and contractor at this point.
One particular focus is on Logistics Engineering execution because LE is the fundamental discipline of logistics, upon which all further activities are based.
The results that have since been obtained from collecting and processing data, and the results of any implemented and documented analyses, are used as the basis for all subsequent procedures in order to create and design the specific logistics elements such as materials management, documentation, and training courses.