La logística es definida por el Diccionario de la lengua española, publicado por la Real Academia Española (RAE) como el «conjunto de medios y métodos necesarios para llevar a cabo la organización de una empresa, o de un servicio, especialmente de distribución». En el ámbito empresarial existen múltiples definiciones del término logística, que ha evolucionado desde la logística militar hasta el concepto contemporáneo del arte y la técnica que se ocupa de la organización de los flujos de mercancías, energía e información. La logística es fundamental para el comercio. Las actividades logísticas conforman un sistema que es el enlace entre la producción y los mercados que están separados por el tiempo y la distancia. La logística empresarial, por medio de la administración logística y de la cadena de suministro, cubre la gestión y la planificación de actividades de los departamentos de compras, producción, transporte, almacenaje, manutención y distribución.

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Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can include physical items such as food, materials, animals, equipment, and liquids; as well as abstract items, such as time and information. The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of information flow, material handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security. In military science, logistics is concerned with maintaining army supply lines while disrupting those of the enemy, since an armed force without resources and transportation is defenseless. Military logistics was already practiced in the ancient world and as modern military have a significant need for logistics solutions, advanced implementations have been developed. In military logistics, logistics officers manage how and when to move resources to the places they are needed. Logistics management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer's requirements. The complexity of logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized, and optimized by dedicated simulation software. The minimization of the use of resources is a common motivation in all logistics fields. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a logistician.

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