What about the part played by the homemaker who aids in the movement of goods by bagging her own groceries, or by retrieving her family's dinner from a "take-out" establishment, thereby facilitating the transfer of goods to the point of consumption? At the very least, a household assists commercial firms in the distribution of products and services.More typically, a household provides its own distinct, autonomous logistics system. The consumer logistics system engages in such diverse logistics activities as storing foods in containers for future use, dehydrating foods to reduce bulk, and packaging Christmas gifts to be shipped to relatives. At its most productive level, the consumer logistics system performs the complete range of logistical activities performed by a business logistics system.
To encompass the entire field of operations, an effective conceptual framework will draw contributions from scholarly work in a number of related fields. We now present several examples of how this may be done. First, work by management scientists has created a wide variety of decision aids for managers in industrial logistics. While these quantitative models are not directly transferable to decision making in CL, they indicate the direction that consumer decision models may take when they are developed. Second, behavioral considerations from consumer research can help describe some aspects of the CL system and provide scholars with the context within which decisions are made. Third, contributions from economics can help structure the decision-making environment. Fourth, concepts from management can show the organizational nature of the CL system and suggest means for planning and directing its operation.
Finally, fields other than business-related disciplines can make their contribution to the study of consumer logistics. Mathematics provides the tools for models of the structure of the CL system and its process Home economics portrays the household as an organization whose operation can be improved by the formalization of its decisionmaking Sociology can contribute to our understanding of the structure of the relationships among household members, and cultural anthropology can explain the different approaches to consumer participation in distribution that are taken by the various subcultures of the nation.
家庭作坊对于他们自己制作的货物使用自己的运输袋运输或者他们的家庭晚餐通过外卖而得到是什么样的呢？从而运输导致货物的消耗量增加了吗？ 至少，一个家庭有助于商业公司在货物的分发和服务。更加典型的是，一个家庭在自己的区域是一个独立自主的物流运输系统。消费者物流系统激发了不同的运输活动就像存放食物在容器为未来使用，减少大块脱水食品和对亲戚传递圣诞节包装礼物。 在最有效的水平，消费者物流系统通过执行商业物流系统来完成大范围的运输活动。
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