The Relationship of Line and Staff Personnel in Physical Distribution Organisations

Abstract

Organisation of the physical distribution function within business firms is a recent development in the United States. The development of physical distribution organisational structures has generally taken the form of a firm transferring the warehousing, traffic, order processing, inventory, and purchasing responsibilities from many individual departments to a single management unit headed by a distribution manager. The reason for this departmental re‐shuffling has not been just to streamline decision making, but rather, to make the firm's physical distribution operations more effective and efficient.

Citation

Lancioni, R.A. (1974), "The Relationship of Line and Staff Personnel in Physical Distribution Organisations", International Journal of Physical Distribution, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014313