Logistics is the management of the flow of resources,
between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to
meet some requirements, for example of customers or corporations. The
resources managed in logistics can include physical items as food,
materials, equipment, liquids and staff as well as abstract items as
information, particles and energy. The logistics of physical items
usually involves the integration of information flow, material handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing and oftentimes security.
Furthermore the complexity of logistics can be modeled, analyzed,
visualized and optimized by dedicated simulation software. Minimizing
time and use of resources, ar\Logistics is considered to have originated in the military's need to
supply themselves with arms, ammunition and rations as they moved from
their base to a forward position. In ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires, military officers with the title Logistikas were responsible for financial and supply distribution matters[citation needed].
According to the Council of Logistics Management, logistics contains
the integrated planning, control, realization and monitoring of all
internal and network-wide material-, part- and product flow including
the necessary information flow in industrial and trading companies along
the complete value-added chain (and product life cycle) for the purpose
of conforming to customer requirements.
Logistics is the process of planning, implementing, controlling,
effective and efficient flow of goods and services form the point of
origin to the point of consumption.
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