The second category is the exceptional unforeseen or unexpected

When a company has exceptional means

When suppliers flow crack, all stocks are consumed and the logistician is gone at the end of the solutions, must be sometimes found the specialist to save a situation, sometimes chartering a plane or a helicopter. But, today, the real rule is that the exceptional is never improvised and deals more with with normal structures. Logistics operates more as thirty years ago, when each claimant could deal with everything and anything. The market is now segmented in a multitude of niches and a myriad of specialists, these specialists are sometimes very little in a very pointed niche. This ultraspécialisation of the actors to do more important things that a few decades ago. Major logistics providers that address themselves to the exceptional internal created cells, departments or subsidiaries dedicated, because a standard organization is not tailored for these operations. These major players play the role of Commissionaires and assemblers, either using their own resources or those of specialized subcontractors sometimes assembled cascade.

How it chooses among as many specialists

A suitable provider chooses based on several criteria such as the size of the transported object, its nature or modes of transport to use... For example, to carry a streetcar of 32 metres in one piece it is only a few rare specialists having equipment necessary and able to deal with the permissions that go with. Those carrying the land are not the same as those of the maritime. Can be the providers of the exceptional in two families: the small local actors dealing with simple emergency and simple flow and sectoral specialists, adapted to a type of product or business.

One of the most important niche that much developed in the last fifteen years is couriers and express, which most often are local specialists of the emergency. They remain most of the time of micro-enterprises because they did not need heavy investment, but that some vehicles they are sufficient. They are capable of carrying in one night a piece between Warsaw and Melun, and to avoid the cost of the aircraft or helicopter.

Extreme exceptional logistics is the logistics of humanitarian relief, likely work with any mode of transport, anywhere in the world, without being able to prepare for the destinations it will have to achieve. These specialists have developed methods and expertise to their limits in order to fit into any existing legal infrastructure, geography or providers. Their problems are very close to those of military logistics and these two logistics of crisis are also numerous exchanges of means and procedures.

Can we speak of exploits in the exceptional

The exploits of the logistics can be divided into two categories. The first category is that of the outstanding recurring, for example when Alstom transporte trains produced or Areva load bars of zirconium. The feat itself, carried out in support of specialists, is the standard of the trade.

The second category is the exceptional unforeseen or unexpected. An industrial charger will do everything so that this unexpected happen again or recur less possible. In this case, it seeks to identify the root of the problem that the glitch would be possible, because it is obsessed by the "repeatability" and how "lean". Its indicator is the number of exceptional transport he had to pay over the cost of transport.

Is the necessary flexibility of the logistician in his daily not itself a feat

Logistics is inherently extremely adaptable and flexible because it is not an activity in itself but it follows a pattern industrial and commercial. A logistician is by nature in a flexible reasoning and "lean" because it is under constant pressure and must adapt constantly. Logisticians manage flows upstream and to the daily, manage hazards. Their role is to reduce the number of incidents and to also "repeatable" as possible flows. In stalking stunts, they are therefore somehow exploits hunters.