英语翻译

英语翻译
Let us analyze the process of making a sale in company like Sears and Roebuck.The customer could come to one of the retail outlet or pick up a catalog from somewhere or order via one of the direct delivery channels like television,radio or the Internet.In the first case,assuming that the outlet has the stock,the customer will immediately receive the goods he asked for and that would be the end of the process.In the other cases,the transaction generates what is called a sale ticket.This ticket carries the transaction number,the ID number of the good(s) purchased and other details.The ticket is then processed.A good or the goods matching the description on the ticket must be 'tagged' with the address that it needs to be delivered to,usually as a bar coded address.This 'tagged' good will generally reside in the warehouse at this time.The good will then be picked up and put in to the truck that is going to do the round of a set of address among which the tagged address is one.Once loaded into the truck,this good will then be offloaded and handed over to the customer at the right address.The processes that we have not detailed in this simplistic description are the supply chain and its management,the inventory and its management,the routing for the warehouse forklifts (if the warehouse is big enough to warrant it) and the routing for the trucks.In each case as is evident,geography is the key to cutting costs.Geography determines which truck will go to or be able to service how many address.Geography determines the time taken by the distributor to get new stocks to the retail outlet.Geography determines how much stock can be transported to the truck in one trip from the warehouse to the truck.The entire process of managing this process is called logistics management.