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Logistics is concerned with the organization, movement, and storage of material and people. The term logistics was first used by the military to describe activities associated with maintaining a fighting force in the field and, in its narrowest sense, describes the housing of troops. The term gradually spread to cover business and service activities. There exist a multitude of formal definitions. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP ), formerly known as the Council of Logistics Management (CLM ), is a large trade association in the United States that promotes the practice and education of logistics. Their definitions are probably the most widely used.
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Goetschalckx, M. (2011). Introduction. In: Supply Chain Engineering. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 161. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6512-7_1
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