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planning and execution, management of a business or other operation; branch of the military which oversees and maintains material and personnel
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logistics
\lo*gis"tics\ (?), n.
1. (mil.) that branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. the meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. l. scott.
2. (math.) a system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
The planning, execution and control of the movement and placement of people and/or goods and of the supporting activities related to such movement and placement within a system organized to achieve specific objectives.
The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations that deal with: a. design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; b. movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; c. acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and d. acquisition or furnishing of services.
Logistics is the management of the flow of resources, not only goods, between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and often security. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software, but is constantly changing. This can involve anything from consumer goods such as food, to IT materials, to aerospace and defense equipment.
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activities involved with the orderly and timely acquisition and transportation of materials required for production, and with the storage, handling and despatch of finished goods to customers.
Noun
1. handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed
(hypernym) provision, supply, supplying
the movement and storage of goods together with associated information flows from the beginning to the end of the supply chain. Or more generally, the management of the details of any complex business operation.
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(n.)
That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.
(n.)
A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
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