Logistics: General Outline

Tenses

S: The line between disorder and order … (to lie) in logistics

S: Logistics … (to appear) to be one of the vital trends today

S: The meaning of logistics … (to expand) nowadays

S: Our shipping operations manager … (to prepare) quotations for our sales office yet

S: I … (to be) a freight forwarder since last month

S: The logistician … scheduling, … duties, and gave feedback to subordinates

did, prioritized was doing, prioritized had done, prioritized

S: Where’s our warehouse manager? I don’t know, he … (to leave) the warehouse a minute ago

S: The agent feels less anger than he

had used to would

S: Matching the sentences with the same meanings

1: When did you dispatch the goods?

2: Having found the suitable mode of transport, I left

3: While I was dealing with shipping rates, I noticed one mistake

4: When did you last fill in the BOL?

a: It was while I was arranging shipping rates that I came across an error

b: How long is it since you delivered the products?

c: When was the last time you completed the B/L?

d: I didn’t arrange the shipping rates until I had completed the document

e: After I had chosen the right vehicle, I went out

S: The word logistics ### used in ancient Greek

S: Any news from the transport company? Yes, its head … (to arrive) tomorrow on the 9:00 plane

S: So, when is your annual interview? This time tomorrow I … for it

will be sitting will sit will have been sitting

S: That’s your new vehicle over there, isn’t ###?

S:... I arrange customs clearance on behalf of you?

won’t shall will

S: In fact, international success ###guaranteed by the continuity of the supply chain

S: Our new products are ### modified these days

Modals

S: Websites … be complicated. Otherwise they won’t be easy to operate

S: You … go there. It’s only for the staff

don’t have to wouldn’t can not

Conditionals

S: What ### you do if these items are out of stock?

S: If I were you, I ### acquire this logistics company

S: … you didn’t get money back guarantee, what would you do?

supposing but for suppose otherwise should

S: If he …..(to get) a full refund that day, he would have sent a complaint

Subjunctive mood

S: I wish I ….. to work today (не надо)

S: I’d rather John … (to work) in the procurement department

S: I prefer to speak on the phone … than write e-mails

S: You … better book some space on the plane earlier

Linking words, prepositions

S: Apart ### that, I maintain all vehicles and machines

S: My employees object ### going on assignment

S: Our deliveries were cancelled … the thick fog

due to because as

S: They plan and manage the movement of goods liaising ### many people

S: Logisticians need strategic response ### external influences

S: Ensuring structures are also ### place to monitor the flow of goods

S: A company provides its clients … products and services

Phrasal verbs

S: They asked me to drop ### whenever I arrived (заходить, входить)

S: ‘Talk down’ is the same as ‘outvoice’, and talk ### means ‘debate’

Emphasising. Inversion

S: They said they would enter the market and they

do enter did enter did entered

S: It is by no means … to talk about the effects of economic decisions (вполне разумно)

unreasonable reasonable not reasonable

Лексика

S: Logisticians need (осведомленность) ### of any situation and strategic response

S: A logistician needs to have … of the products and services

extensive knowledge a bachelor’s degree clear communication skills

S: To make progress, to get a promotion, but to ### research (проводить исследование)

S: The most helpful advice to get ahead in your career is about … your individual aims

setting comparing settling

S: The first essential in a boy’s career is to … what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing

resolve discover relish

S: What do they mean in Russian?

L1: well-being

L2: voluntary

L3: consequence

L4: dependent

R1: welfare

R2: deliberate

R3: effect

R4: subordinate

R5: integrated

S: To be successful, a logistician must also be organised and have good time … skills

communication management regulation

S: In the process of … a customer’s needs a logistics manager has to collaborate with many professionals

doing meeting retrieving

S: The noun from the verb ‘to consume’ is ###

S: Find and learn the synonyms

L1: to undertake

L2: to go on

L3: to negotiate

L4: to demonstrate

L5:

R1: a task

R2: assignment

R3: contracts

R4: an affinity

R5: a recipient

S: What вo they mean?

see eye to eye get into hot water be like a fish out of water be thrown in at the deep end

S: The job can be … when dealing with the multitude of details

difficult scheduling intangible inflexible сomplex

S: ‘Форма оплаты’ is method of ### in English

S: The opposite to ‘efficient’ is ### efficient

S: Doing business … (на межд. уровне) depends on the task people are undertaking

S: ‘To assess’ the work of others means … in Russian

S: The noun from ‘to provide’ is ###

S: They offer an ### -free credit (= беспроцентный)

S: The synonym of ‘to oversee’ is

watch evaluate liaise delegate supervise

профессиональная лексика и терминология

S: A company that transports or conveys goods is called a ###

S: The English for ‘экспедирование грузов’ is ### forwarding

S: As a shipping operations manager, I arrange ### clearance on behalf of my clients

Вспомните значения слов

inbound procurement inventory haulage

S: Courier is a company that specializes in the speedy and secure … of small goods and packages

delivery purchase storage

S: personnel employees haulier suppliers vendors (что слова означают?)

S: ‘Грузополучатель’ is a ###

S: Materials can be both ### (such as raw materials) and intangible (such as information)

S: In my job I have to check that the … is not damaged onboard the ship or while loading

freight maintenance cargo procurement supplier

S: Matchthe English words to the Russian ones and learn

L1: procurement

L2: maintenance

L3: inventory

L4: storage

L5:

R1: закупка

R2: содержание

R3: запасы

R4: хранение

R5: экспедирование

The broader the international dimension of companies, the longer their supply chain becomes (переведите предложение)

S: To store – storage, to divide – division, to maintain –?

S: Now we speak about inbound and … logistics, transport logistics…

S: Moving materials within the organisation is

operations management materials management supply management

S: ‘Carrier’s operating costs’, one of the problems of any organization, means … in Russian

эксплуатационные расходы фирмы погрузочно-разгрузочные работы

сопроводительная документация груза

S: Logistics has a far wider meaning, but … (транспорт) is certainly one of its main components

S: Forget logistics, you (проиграете)

S: Logistics needs to operate “cross-###” in order to be efficient

Border borders

!! Cooling off period (= период, в течение которого вы можете передумать и вернуть товар)

market penetration market inroad mergering takeover implementation (что означают?)

S: I am afraid the product is ### of stock now

S: The phone is … I can’t get through (engaged out busiest)

S: It is a … training programme (five-day five days five-days)

S: At stage 2 people begin to … and show … to everyone

mock, animosity anticipate, affinity experience, milestone

S: It was a good ### (повод) to stop in and do research

S: It’s a real ###-opener. I have never seen it before (открытие)

S: Welcome ### our warehouse

S: I look ### to meeting you soon (с нетерпением жду….)

S: What do you do? I am … (a logistician fine working)

Which sentences are true?

The role that transportation plays in logistics system is more complex than moving goods for clients. Its complexity can influence only through highly quality management. By means of well-handled transport system, goods could be sent to the right place at the right time in order to meet customers’ demands. It brings effectiveness, and also it builds a bridge between producers and consumers. So, transportation is the base of efficiency; a good transport system performing in logistics operations brings benefits not only to service quality but also to company competitiveness.

Effectiveness in logistics is based on transportation

An effective transport system connects producers and manufacturers

A good transport system gives advantages only to companies

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