Gamay, Celj Filmund B.

BSA 4
AC-Comp 4
Mrs. Ana Maria S. Cortes
1. What is logistics?
a. In Military
Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the
movement and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive
sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with.
Design,
development, acquisition,
storage,
distribution,
maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of material.
Transport of personnel.
Acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition
of facilities.
Acquisition or furnishing of services.
Medical and health service support.
b. In Business
Logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of
origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of
customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can
include physical items, such as food, materials, animals, equipment and
liquids, as well as abstract items, such as time, information, particles, and
energy. The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of
information
flow,
which
is material
handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation,warehousing,
and often security. The complexity of logistics can be modeled, analyzed,
visualized, and optimized by dedicated simulation software. The
minimization of the use of resources is a common motivation in logistics
for import and export.

2. SAP
a. Meaning

SAP SE (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing) is a

German multinational software corporation
that
makes enterprise
software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is
headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Wrttemberg, with regional offices in
130 countries. The company has over 293,500 customers in 190
countries.
b. History
When Xerox aimed to exit the computer industry in 1975 they
asked IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of
IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM was given the rights to
the Scientific Data Systems (SDS)/SAPE software, reportedly for a
contract credit of $80,000.
Five IBM engineers from the AI department (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira,
Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus Wellenreuther, all
from Mannheim, Baden-Wrttemberg) were working in an enterprise-wide
system based on this software, only to be told that it would be no longer
necessary. Rather than abandon the project, they decided to leave IBM
Tech and start another company.[6]
In
June
1970,
they
founded Systemanalyse
und
Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development")
company, as a private partnership under the German Civil Code.
The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und
Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products
in Data Processing").
Their first client was the German branch of Imperial Chemical Industries
in stringen, where they developed mainframe programs for payroll and
accounting. Instead of storing the data on punch cards mechanically, as
IBM did, they stored it locally. Therefore, they called their software a realtime system, since there was no need to process the punch cards
overnight (for this reason their flagship product carried an R in its name
until the late 1990s). This first version was also a standalone software that
could be offered to other interested parties.