Logistics

Abstract

Logistics includes the processes of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost‐effective, and synchronized flow and storage of raw materials, inventory, finished goods, and related information, from point of origin to point of consumption and vice versa (as it concerns data, vessels, reverse logistics). While it initially emerged from the preparation and organization of military operations, logistics is now used to optimize issues as diverse and complex as corporate management, global trade, and a broad range of transport operations. Since logistics can be considered as the art of governing time–space relationships, it helps in exerting control over both flows and territories. Logistics is thus essential for geography, and it is also highly political.