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Understanding Logistics Management

Logistics involves the organization and management of resources as they flow from their origin to their destination. This includes both physical materials as well as abstract resources like time and information. Effective logistics requires integrating information flow, materials handling, production, and transportation to ensure customer requirements are met. Military logistics focuses on maintaining supply lines for armed forces while disrupting those of enemies. Logistics management specifically plans, implements, and controls efficient resource movement and storage throughout the supply chain.

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Understanding Logistics Management

Logistics involves the organization and management of resources as they flow from their origin to their destination. This includes both physical materials as well as abstract resources like time and information. Effective logistics requires integrating information flow, materials handling, production, and transportation to ensure customer requirements are met. Military logistics focuses on maintaining supply lines for armed forces while disrupting those of enemies. Logistics management specifically plans, implements, and controls efficient resource movement and storage throughout the supply chain.

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Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.

In a general
business sense, 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 and information. The logistics of physical items usually involves
the integration of information flow, materials
handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security.

In military science, logistics is concerned with maintaining army supply lines while disrupting those of
the enemy, since an armed force without resources and transportation is defenseless. Military logistics
was already practiced in the ancient world and as modern military have a significant need for logistics
solutions, advanced implementations have been developed. In military logistics, logistics officers
manage how and when to move resources to the places they are needed.

Logistics management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements,
and controls the efficient, effective forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and
related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet
customer's requirements. 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 all logistics fields. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a
logistician.

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