Strategic Important of Logistics in Supply Chain Management

Logistics has been defined as the Planning, execution, and control of the procurement, movement, and stationing of personnel, material, and other resources to achieve the objectives of a campaign, plan, project, or strategy. It may be defined as the 'management of inventory in motion and at rest.‘

And if we look at the definition of Supply Chain, it has been defined as:- 

The continuous planning, developing, controlling, informing and monitoring of action in order to 

have an integrated supply chain process which will meet the objectives and goal of the company.

Thus, need to emphasis here that, the logistics operation is one of the most important function in 

supply chain activities.

The logistics responsibility to managing traffic management, warehousing, order fulfillment

inventory control, order entry and planning material movement is the the key for any successful 

supply chain operation. Without effective management of these key function,  any plan toward 

supply chain efficiency will run aground.